Why doesn’t the current education system create a Vivekananda?

Acharya Prashant
6 min readFeb 19, 2020

Every system is designed by someone, for some purpose. Can you blame the car if it doesn’t travel to the moon?

Why? Isn’t it a serious shortcoming that the car isn’t able to fly up to the moon? Why don’t you blame it? Because that was not the designed goal. The car is perfectly fine at doing what it has been designed to do.

What has it been designed to do?

It has been designed to be a terrain vehicle, it has been designed to horizontally scan the surface. So it does that.

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 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 that who is it that must emerge from the system?

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