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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
[Ādi-līlā, Ch. 17]
everyone goes to school, and everyone is given the same type of education, although no one knows what the result will be. The result, however, is most unsatisfactory, as we have seen in the western countries especially. The United States has vast educational institutions where everyone is allowed to receive an education, but the result is that most students become like hippies.
Higher education is not meant for everyone. Only selected individuals trained in brahminical culture should be allowed to pursue a higher education. Educational institutions should not aim to teach technology, for a technologist cannot properly be called educated. A technologist is a  śūdra ; only one who studies the  Vedas  may properly be called a learned man ( paṇḍita ). The duty of a  brāhmaṇa  is to become learned in the Vedic literature and teach the Vedic knowledge to other  brāhmaṇas . In our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we are simply teaching our students to become fit  brāhmaṇas  and  Vaiṣṇavas . In our school at Dallas, the students are learning English and Sanskrit, and through these two languages they are studying all our books, such as  Śrimad-Bhāgavatam ,  Bhagavad-gitā  and  Nectar of Devotion . It is a mistake to educate every student as a technologist. There must be a group of students who become  brāhmaṇas . Without  brāhmaṇas  who study the Vedic literature, human society will be entirely chaotic.
TEXT 254
শুনি’ ক্রোধ কৈল সব পড়ুয়ার গণ ।  
 সবে মেলি’ করে তবে প্রভুর নিম্নে ॥ ২৫৪ ॥
śuni’ krodha kaila saba paḍuyāra gaṇa  
 sabe meli’ kare tabe prabhura nindana
SYNONYMS
śuni’ —hearing;  krodha —angry;  kaila —became;  saba —all;  paḍuyāra —of students;  gaṇa —the groups;  sabe —all;  meli’ —joining together;  kare —do;  tabe —then;  prabhura —of the Lord;  nindana —accusation.
TRANSLATION
Hearing of the incident, all the students, greatly angry, joined together in criticizing the Lord.
TEXT 255
সব দেশ ভ্রষ্ট কৈল একলা নিমাঞি ।  
 ভ্রাহ্মণ মারিতে চাহে, ধর্মভয় নাই ॥ ২৫৫ ॥
saba deśa bhraṣṭa kaila ekalā nimāñi  
 brāhmaṇa mārite cāhe, dharma-bhaya nāi