#1128 - Exclusive Episode - Sadhguru’s Schooling Days & the Purpose of Education

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Sadhguru spoke with Shantanu Prakash, CEO of Educomp Solutions, in a recent event in New Delhi. Mr. Prakash opened with a question to Sadhguru about how education has shaped him. Sadhguru shared the experience of his own formal education growing up. He went on to speak about the purpose of education and how to use it for human wellbeing. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast, Sad-Gour of Mystics and Mistakes.
0:18.0	Good evening, everyone.
0:34.0	To start with, one of the things that I was very curious to know from you was when we talk about education, what has been your own experience, your own personal experience in education?
0:41.0	Within education, what has shaped you or not shaped you to the person that you have become today?
0:44.0	That's a googly. There are no children, so I think I can share.
0:55.0	My experience of education,
1:01.0	my experience of education,
1:02.0	people ask me what is my sardana, so usually I tell them the only
1:09.3	my sardana has been to remain uneducated because when I first went to school I had no clue why
1:21.6	I am going.
1:30.0	Probably the grown-up people just assume the children must go to school.
1:36.0	Nobody bothers to tell you why is it that you have to go to this place. What so important about this place that we have to go?
1:41.0	They were saying things but which didn't mean anything to me.
1:44.0	So my time of education,
1:52.0	I only went there when I really had to.
1:57.0	And even when I went there my main problem was this.
2:04.8	I always found people were talking about things that were not important to them.
2:13.0	I have always maintained this in my life.
2:16.0	It doesn't matter what rubbish somebody is speaking.
2:19.0	If it means something to them, I will listen absolutely whatever nonsense it may be but it means
2:26.4	something to that person I'm willing to listen if it does not mean anything to
2:31.0	the person who is speaking I don't understand why I should listen.
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