To what extent is education important?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question (Q): Acharya Ji, I was reading one of your articles on education in which you have said that our normal education is important up to some extent. My question is, ‘Up to what extent? Who decides that extent?’

Acharya Prashant (AP):

Formal education is important to the extent the body is important.

The less the body-identification,

the less is the importance of object-centric education.

Q: But formal education also plays a role to make one less bodily identified.

AP: The ‘one’ that is already body-identified. Right? Which education helped him make body-identified?

Q: Here I am living in a village. Most of the people are landless-laborers. All they think is about their daily bread. Had they been more educated they might have gone ahead of food and shelter.

AP: Basic food, shelter, and then a suite in Boeing.

Bigger food, bigger shelter.

Q: That’s why I have used the word ‘might’, but if someone has to make efforts for his daily bread, his body would constantly remind him that he needs to feed the body first. It is very difficult for…