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Participant: What is the future for your home school children?
Sadhguru: They will be far more better educated than most of the children in other schools
because the way they are exploring any subject is very, very deep.
See, the school goes like this: one week is just one subject, full, ok?
There’s a base line, everyday one hour mathematics, one hour English.
Mathematics and English is kept as base line.
But one week if they go into something, if they take up a leaf,
this leaf will go on floating for one week.
Each child will pursuit it in his own way, full seven days, there is no holiday in the school.
See there is no need for holiday for joy, isn't it?
So, next week then they’ll go into total English and Mathematics.
So, this one week the level of pursuit, the level of interest in the child,
how they go about it, you must see, I have seen children sitting up at, you know,
young kids like 7, 8-year-olds sitting up at 11 o’clock and they want to read in the library,
because their thing has been stimulated, they want to know.
See, wanting to know is such a deep thing in a human being.
If you inspire that, if you stimulate that, little kids, 7-year-old, 8-year-old kids, they want to know.
They go to bed, they can’t sleep, they want to know that.
Now, they want to go to the library, we open the library, whatever time of the day or night.
There is no timing, this, that. There are schedules.
Our idea is minimum six to seven hours they must spend in a very focused way.
There is everyday, everybody has to go through a minimum of two types of music.
One is vocal and one is one of the instruments they have to learn.
They have to go through either dance or martial arts.
So, there is lots of activity…
See a child becomes capable not because he just gets some marks.
He must learn to use his head in every possible way.
So, certain days of the school the teachers just withdraw and the children run the school completely.
They manage the school, if the guests come, they take care of them
and everything, the office, the phones - telephones;
everything children themselves manage the school on certain days.
This is a deep sense of responsibility for the child that he is running the school, you know?
It’s a very, very different way of - I mean without that belonging, without that inspiration,
that’s what is lacking in education, it’s all information.
Right now education has become all pure information.
Information doesn’t make a human being.
And as technology advances information becomes more and more meaningless
because all the mathematics you want to know, in future it will happen if you buy a chip
and just put it here you will know all the damn mathematics you need to know.
Yes.
You don’t have to learn it, it will become like that, we are heading in that direction.
So, as technology develops, this learning, you know, the route method of learning
and passing examinations, these things won’t mean anything.
How capable, how efficiently can you use your brain,
that is all your capability is because information will be just available everywhere.
You don’t have to learn it and store it in your head.
Those days will go away within the next 15-20 years
because technology is so rapidly advancing in that direction.