Acharya Prashant: What is the intention of the current education system?
The system is good, very good—at doing what it has been designed to do. But what is the intention of the designer, must that not be asked? And when you ask about the intention of the designer, you will have to ask, “What is your vision of the products of such a system?”
When you envisage a product of the current education system, what do you see? And related to that is the question—do you understand who is entering the education system? If you understand who is the one who enters the system, you would probably be nicely placed to see, who is it that must emerge from the system. In other words, do we know who we are, and therefore who we must be? The ones that we are is the input into the system; the ones that we must be, must be the output of the system. Do we know who enters the system at age three or five? And therefore, do we know what to expect from the one who emerges at the age of twenty-three, or twenty-five?
Do we understand both our fact, and our possibility? And is not education the movement from our sombre fact to our splendid possibility? Must that not be the very definition of our education: a movement from the sordid, primitive fact of our physical existence to the glorious, splendid possibility of the liberated human being?
Education is what must connect these two, right? But is that even the thought or the idea? Is that the intention? No, that is not the intention.
