Learn form kids before you teach them

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (diaogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner: Sir, is there something we can do for the education of our kids at home or at schools?

Acharya Prashant:

What we call as education is just a preparation to serve social roles. The kid comes only physically conditioned; we make the kid a servant of the society.

If you are in charge of a kid, then you have to be very sensitive, very careful and loving. Because remember that education does not happen only in school or college, education also happens when he is on the TV or the internet or with his peers, education is happening all the time. One has to be very careful about these messages.

Listener: Yes! I have read that it is useless to try to educate the children; they will just imitate you anyway.

AP: Very well said. When you are standing in front of your child, he is imitating you, he is absorbing a lot of things. You know what happens — 20 years, 30 years are spent just absorbing garbage from here and there. And then, you come to spirituality to detoxify yourself. Incidentally, instead of detoxification, what you get is more education so now you are full of knowledge, now you have gone back heavier than you came. You must check your luggage on the flight back…