VISION OF THE REVERED FOUNDER CHANCELLOR

Students! Teachers! Educationists! Those eager to promote Education!

Undigested food brings about illness in the body; similarly undigested knowledge imparted by the present-day educational system has brought several illnesses in the social organism and the body politic.
The disease is promoting contrary feelings that are expressed in mutual conflicts. The educated are reacting with envious emotions towards those who have secured jobs; when they are unable to get jobs, they impute motives of nepotism, etc. and develop resentment, anger, and hatred. The system of education is the root cause of the prevalent discontent and resentment. In the past, western rulers of this country established a system of education which can produce suitable men for the jobs they could provide for the natives. Today, since we continue the same system, we have to create suitable jobs for the people who are educated on the old lines. This is a strange reversal of the role. It is clear that the agitations, anxieties, fears and frenzies that disturb the country are traceable to education as it prevails today.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Sri Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 15 (1981 – 82)
08 March 1981