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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Sadhguru on India’s New National Education Policy

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Sadhguru Official

Education, How To, Hinduism, Life Sciences, Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Science, Mental Health, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sadhguru speaks his mind on the recent changes to the National Education Policy in India, its strong points and short-comings. He also shares his vision for education in the country and the world, and how education will be vital in shaping a peaceful future for humanity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A more organized aberration came where the English tried to educate Indians the way they want.

0:09.0

They said they may be brown of skin but they must think like us their values must be what ours are.

0:17.0

Almost every day I never came home without being beaten for something.

0:22.0

So this effort is very appreciative in many ways it is positive.

0:29.0

Certain change may make it collapse totally because first you have to educate the teachers how to be.

0:43.0

In a much needed move the government of India recently announced sweeping changes

0:50.0

in the education policy for the first time in 34 years.

0:55.0

I am keen to know your review of the new policy.

1:04.0

Well India's education for millennia was conducted in a certain way.

1:17.0

Where education was designed to integrate you into life process.

1:25.0

Without life process overwhelming you that everybody had freedom to choose.

1:33.0

Probably if you look back a thousand or fifteen hundred years ago the only culture on the planet

1:41.0

where nearly ninety to ninety-five percent of the women were literate is India.

1:49.0

Nowhere else this happened that long ago.

1:53.0

Education is a very, very recent for women in the rest of the world.

1:59.0

I am telling you all ladies, recently educated.

2:05.0

But education was part of both male and female populations in India for a very long time

2:12.0

which changed in the last six hundred to eight hundred years because of aberrations that happened to that culture.

2:21.0

And about hundred fifty two hundred years ago a more organized aberration came

2:28.0

where the English tried to educate Indians the way they want.

2:34.0

Very clearly they defined it they had no ambiguity about what they wanted.

2:39.0

They said they may be brown of skin but they must think like us their values must be what ours are.

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