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change. They want to run the business the way it works, isn't it? All you want is your child to somehow get 100%. It does not matter what happens to the child. You want your child to get first rank. They are just trying to cater to it because you are paying them. They are just trying to fulfill their job. In the course of your activity, the child is getting ruined, but it does not matter. Your child is unhappy, it does not matter. You want him to be first rank. This is a sickness which has to go.

    True human genius will not flower if this kind of education happens. True human capabilities will not find expression in competition. True human capabilities will find expression only in absolute relaxation. Your mind, your body will work best, will find fullest expression, only when you are joyful and peaceful, and quiet within yourself. When you are trying to race with somebody, you are only thinking of going one step ahead of him, that is all. You are not thinking of what your ultimate potential is. We are just ruining a whole generation of people with the kind of schooling we are providing.
    Question: Sadhguru, you mentioned the Isha Home School . What is your vision in using education to produce an ideal human being? How do you balance an international standard of education along with spiritual values?
    Sadhguru: In the Isha Home School there is no spirituality taught. No spirituality at all. We don't want to bring spirituality into a child's life. We teach them some simple forms of yoga for mental and physical health, that is different. But no spirituality will be brought to them as a part of education, never, because spirituality should not be brought about like that. Maybe after they finish their education, if they want to go through a stint of three months or six months of spiritual training, they can. That is by choice. That, anybody can go through.

    This school does not try to teach any spirituality. At the same time, we want to cultivate a certain openness in the human being. Somebody becomes or turns successfully spiritual because he has developed a certain openness about life. He has no conclusions about anything. He is willing to look at everything. This is something we cultivate in the child - that the child learns to look at every aspect of life with absolute openness, without prejudice, without any religious, cultural, or any other kind of inclinations. If that happens, whether you talk spirituality to him or you don't, he will anyway turn spiritual. Spirituality will be a natural part of his life, not something that he pursues by going to an ashram or some other place. It will be just a natural part of his life because he has developed a certain openness to every aspect of life; actually education was supposed to be like that right from the beginning. The very purpose of educating people is to broaden their horizons, isn't it? But please look and see, as people are getting educated are they broadening their horizons or are they becoming very narrow?
    Just fifty years ago, everywhere in the world people lived in large families; in India there still are such families. Three hundred, four hundred people lived in one house, huge families. There was no big problem, you know? They knew how to adjust with each other and go on, because four hundred people living in one place is a challenge. that is what the ashram is. Now we're back into that old system of being one large family; and this is even more challenging because there are different types of people from different cultures, different languages, different attitudes, different likes and dislikes. Living together like this, without friction, needs enormous maturity and a very broad way of looking at life; otherwise you cannot.

    But just see now, as modern education came, slowly we cannot even live with our own parents anymore. We thought just husband, wife, children - this is the family. But now, in the last fifteen to twenty years even that is going away. Family