Don’t make children automatic

If there exists in the future any possibility of a real human society, the first thing, the basic thing that will have to be done is this: don’t make children automatic. Even if it takes a little longer to make them efficient, make them efficient with awareness; don’t make them machines. It will take longer, because two things have to be learned: the efficiency and awareness. A human society will give you awareness, even with less efficiency, but efficiency will come by and by. Then when you are alert you will be able to be efficient with alertness.

Twenty-five years of education -- almost one third of your life you are being trained to be ambitious. How can you avoid politics? The only way to avoid politics is to get out of your mind; that means that unless mind is dropped totally, politics will go on clinging to you. You can even be antipolitical but then that will become politics.
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