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Rethinking Education: Osho's Insights

Osho criticizes the conventional education system for being insufficient, incomplete, superficial, and harmful due to its focus on competition. He proposes several necessary changes including abolishing exams, using daily observation instead of exams to evaluate students, and teaching lessons joyfully using television. Osho advocates for an education with five dimensions: 1) informative subjects taught using technology, 2) scientific inquiry, 3) helping students transform negative emotions into love and connecting with nature, 4) art and creativity, and 5) awareness of eternal life and introduction to philosophies like Zen and Tao. He concludes that education should be one-third livelihood, one-third well-being, and one-third love, death and the secrets of

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Rethinking Education: Osho's Insights

Osho criticizes the conventional education system for being insufficient, incomplete, superficial, and harmful due to its focus on competition. He proposes several necessary changes including abolishing exams, using daily observation instead of exams to evaluate students, and teaching lessons joyfully using television. Osho advocates for an education with five dimensions: 1) informative subjects taught using technology, 2) scientific inquiry, 3) helping students transform negative emotions into love and connecting with nature, 4) art and creativity, and 5) awareness of eternal life and introduction to philosophies like Zen and Tao. He concludes that education should be one-third livelihood, one-third well-being, and one-third love, death and the secrets of

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Oshos Views on

Education System
EDUCATION - Definition
Education Derived from Latin word
Educere

Educere means to lead out or to draw


out or to bring from

To bring out that which is hidden within


the potential. Whatever is within you as a
seed has to be drawn out, given full
opportunity, so that it can blossom.
CONVENTIONAL SYSTEM
Insufficient, Incomplete, Superficial because it does not
give any insight to living.

Harmful because it is based on competition, which


creates unloving people.

Competition destroys the state of being in joy

It is goal-oriented Examination is more important


than the learning.

Examinations tests the memory, not the intelligence.


NECESSARY CHANGES
Abolishing Exams

Every day, every hour, observation by the teachers will


decide whether you move further or you remain a little
longer in the same class.

The idea of failure creates a deep wound of inferiority,


and the idea of being successful also creates a different
kind of disease, that of superiority.

Nobody is inferior, and Nobody is Superior.


One is just oneself, Incomparable.
NECESSARY CHANGES
More the memory, less is the clarity and intelligence.

Anything seen graphically is more easily remembered


than what is read or heard.

Lessons can be taught joyfully on a TV.


FIVE DIMENSIONS
OF EDUCATION
FIRST DIMENSION
The first is informative, like history, geography, and
many other subjects which can be dealt with by
television and computer together.

History should consist only of those great geniuses who


have contributed something to the beauty of this
planet, to humanity.

We should teach the positive grandeur of our


inheritance.
FIRST DIMENSION
We have to make the future generations completely
aware that a dark side existed in the past and
dominated the past, but now there is no place for that
side

Every person in the world should know at least two


languages; one is his mother tongue, and the other is
English as an international vehicle for communication.
SECOND DIMENSION
The second is the inquiry of scientific subjects, which is
tremendously important because it is half of reality,
the outside reality.
THIRD DIMENSION
Art of Living - Every child should be helped to
transform his anger, hatred, jealousy, into love.

Sense of Humour.

Connect with the nature like sunrise, sunset, enjoying


the birds sing

To sum up, a reverence for life is the foundation for


third dimension.
FOURTH DIMENSION
ART AND CREATIVITY Like painting, music,
craftsmanship, pottery and masonry.

By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the


only prayer.
FIFTH DIMENSION
ART OF DYING Becoming aware of the eternal life
inside.

Introduction to Zen, Tao, Yoga


One-third of our education should be concerned with
livelihood;

one-third of our education should be concerned with our


well-being body, health, ways to stay younger and live
longer.

And one-third the last and the most important


should be concerned with love, with death, and the
secrets of life itself. Only then will we have a wholesome
education.

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