After finishing a so-called education, the so-called educated persons move like dogs from door to door with applications for some service, and mostly they are driven away...
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October 1, 2009]Schooled to wear a leash
Locked into a lifetime of debt and slavery
True Slant Sep 30, 2009
- LAURIE ESSIG, Class Warfare
Banks want to keep students stupid and in debt. A lesson in economics.
Many students are more than $100,000 in debt before they even get their college degree. If they even get their college degree. For some research I was doing on an unrelated topic, I interviewed college students and recent college grads at a state university. Many of them had more than $60,000 in student loan debt. When I asked them about taking on such huge debt loads, they said “I was born in debt. I’ll die in debt. What difference does it make how much debt.” go to story
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Education and the making of a human being
FAIL: Universities missing the point of education A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
What university education? They give some technical education, that shilpa-vidya, to earn money and eat and sleep and have sex life and die. This is the education. This education is described here that dushparasya, andhasya dushparasya [difficult to cross over this darkness of ignorance]. This kind of education will not help us because our sufferings are different. Janma-mrityu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-doshanudarshanam [Bg. 13.9: "Observe the distress and fault of birth, death, old age and disease"]. more
What university education? They give some technical education, that shilpa-vidya, to earn money and eat and sleep and have sex life and die. This is the education. This education is described here that dushparasya, andhasya dushparasya [difficult to cross over this darkness of ignorance]. This kind of education will not help us because our sufferings are different. Janma-mrityu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-doshanudarshanam [Bg. 13.9: "Observe the distress and fault of birth, death, old age and disease"]. more
Doggish mentality
excerpt from Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.3.19, purport
The general mass of people, unless they are trained systematically for a higher standard of life in spiritual values, are no better than animals, and in this verse they have particularly been put on the level of dogs, hogs, camels and asses. Modern university education practically prepares one to acquire a doggish mentality with which to accept the service of a greater master. After finishing a so-called education, the so-called educated persons move like dogs from door to door with applications for some service, and mostly they are driven away, informed of no vacancy. As dogs are negligible animals and serve the master faithfully for bits of bread, a man serves a master faithfully without sufficient rewards.
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