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0:00 A child between the ages of three and five asks at least 300 questions a day. After leaving school, there are not even three questions. You have to understand that what is done in the classroom is domestication. The child who tames the child is taming the child. The most important thing is that the child sits like this in the classroom, runs around and runs. How many senses do we have? This is the time when we need to nurture and develop all those senses. This entire childhood is spent in this classroom and taught to sit like this. This is what is done. And
0:47 then when the bell rings, we count. When the bell rings, we have to get down and go. This is all a place where people are prepared to go to work in this factory. That is why they never left there and went there without studying. Then the factory starts there for work. These parties come to these sitting parties. People who have left school and college somehow learn to live and start a tea shop. These parties come to write the accounts in the tea shop. This is what happened. So what we have to understand is that the Complete Initiative has been eliminated. This is the system that we need to dismantle. That is why I see that what you are doing now, this college, is all that is in place of prison. Sir, let me
1:33 ask you, what can we say now, what changes can we bring to our system in this college or other colleges? That is, if we say that the total system can be changed, it is not a long-term thing. He asked me to repair a bullock cart and make it a car. That is not possible. The system is different. This is why I first told you what democracy is. Let's try. In North India, you can see that a bullock cart is the wheel of a car. That is all that can be done. No, it is not possible to make a car. Is the motherboard of the car the
2:18 problem? It has to be changed. Instead, if that basis is not that thing, how much money can be put into it? There are things like this. This whole thing called educational reform that is happening here, this bullock cart is repaired. The basic system system is the place where the people I mentioned are working today, where the teachers of the children are employed. Schools and colleges are worried about the lack of children there, saying that they will lose their jobs, and they are doing all the work, saying that they are not teachers, they are teaching this old system. We need to create child-centered classrooms. It is not enough to start a single school. If
3:04 you take an institution and do it, it will only be enough that in the end, children will not come there . If you go here, you will understand that you are teaching something that does not get you a job. No one in this family would leave you there. If you start a school, why didn't Tagore start Visva Bharati? And now it is a museum and it is sitting there. J. Krishnamurthy Rishi Valley School has started. They'll leave the rich kids there now. The point is, even if they don't study, there's no harm in it. They are the only ones going there. Mera Roy has started saying that there is a church here . Even without any exams, only the rich kids went there. No one else is going. Sir, you said we need to change a problem with the motherboard . So, if you were to be the first to give this to me, what would be the
3:50 change you would bring first ? The first mistake is to say, "Give power." It's a task that we all have to do together. Instead of framing the question within the logic of some leader coming to fix the country, you are framing it within the logic of some leader coming to fix the country . That's not how we understand it. Didn't I say that we should start education that is centered around the child of citizens? That's what the government here should do. It's not about making children sit in classrooms in front of the government. It's not about producing people for this factory or making people work in the office. It's about creating citizens who don't need school, but about creating guides who find out what their potential is
4:38 . So it is child-centered. This child is the child who came before us, he has some abilities, he has some abilities that we know about, he has different abilities. They are not capable of some skills or things. That's okay. But there is no one without talent. There are different abilities. So if we start growing vegetables according to the child, there is bread for each person, there is eggplant, there is garlic, there is tomato, all these cannot be grown the same, they have to be grown differently, so that is its potential, what we bring out is the place that prepares the stage for it, so that the child will be child-centered, this is the difference, so if we do not have dyslexia or dyscalculia inside it, there will be
5:27 many types of children who we call learning disabilities, but they are the ones who come to the center, so now we just have to look at it, we enroll six-year-olds in the first grade, this is what we do, will everyone give birth together at the age of six, why are we doing this, we just have to look at it, a baby is born, a brother and a sister, isn't it, we have people of different ages sitting in the classroom, all this is because of the logic of teaching and making other people employees, we put six-year-olds together because it is convenient for the teachers, at the same time a six-year-old can teach a five- year-old and a four-year-old, a seven-year-old can look at a five-year-old, a seven-year-old can look at a
6:14 10-year-old You can see that we need to understand that even though they are of different ages, some people will understand more in some subjects earlier. The classroom is about finding out what this child has, whether it is drawing or writing. What I am saying is, "Hone it, polish it, take it." This classroom should be like this. So, up to 16 or 17 years old, children of all ages are in our classroom. This is like a factory. Today, schools are like this. They collect everyone together and take them there and sit like this. Why is there such a big classroom? Why is there such a big school? If
7:01 we just look at it, up to 16 or 17 years old, these children are within a distance that they can go from their homes, within a distance that they can walk, and people of different ages are together there. We must first know that the classroom is a place where those children below find out what they are interested in. At the time of finding out, sometimes very quickly, sometimes the math is based on our neurons. That's how we are talented. And all these words But everyone has a talent for something, no one has anything. That's where they need to be educated. They need to be policed.
7:47 So, we need to start a child-centered classroom. When I say classroom, again, do n't think of this classroom as a place where there are different types of people, different ages, and if the people above you don't have much to say to the people below, they will listen. At the same time, if a teacher of the same age tells us to, the children who don't listen will obey and do it within five minutes if the elders tell them to. Don't we see this in every home? If you want to play this game, you need this song. If you say it, you will listen. Teachers are not allowed to play with them. Then they won't experience this loss. We can do everything without saying that we should control our children. This is what we do. It's
8:34 like making a bunch of lambs and a bunch of goats. These people are made like making chickens for meat or broilers for chicken. That's why it happens. We do stunts. We are not allowed to explore. We just have to look at the world. According to the old calculation, we are taught that we have five senses. Today, when we study the senses, we have seven or eight. Not only that, but if we examine them carefully, we can see that there are more. But how many senses are taught in the classroom? Not after the eyes and ears. Do you have any sense in any classroom about learning by smelling something? Do you have any sense
9:24 about taste? Do you have any sense of taste? Do you have any sense of smell When we put a microscope on the eye, we see what we have not seen before. We do not even train it in front of other senses. We do not make it have an extension. We put our ears and now when we talk about ultrasound, we have only explored that place. We do not know how to touch it. A person who does not see can touch all this. Why did the extension of that thing that can be touched not come? This
10:11 thing called the eye is our main thing and we think that we should develop it only because we do not develop the other senses. We can develop all this by thinking that this is what should happen in the classroom. How much should we develop the senses? The mechanism to know the world as much as possible. Dad, what is scary for a person who is tasting tea today? People who are walking behind, but they are not taught that in the classroom. Those who are tasting wine, all this is a terrible price for the tongue. This is like a person who is unaware. If we train him, he will not
10:57 reach the excellent person he says. We don't know how to drive on the road, but if we are not Schumacher, we can learn to drive like Alphonse and others, but we can't learn to drive without crashing the car. We can develop our skills in the same way. This is not a single thing. Before the invention of the alphabet, when people were talking about where I was sitting, you should go and say what I said somewhere else. You can learn to see all this. It should be cherished. If this thing starts writing letters, if we're typing or taking notes here, we can take what I said there and read it out loud. Now that you're starting to record, you can hear everything I said.
11:45 There's nothing to be missed for that. It's not a change now, it's not a change, it's nothing. I'm saying this so that you can understand this thing. I'm not saying this now without starting a discussion about whether it has changed or not. The idea of making it a habit is from before the invention of letters. If you say that you are writing today as an exam, then you are doing education from 7000 years ago. Once the letter that makes up the letter is made, it is not enough for us to look at it in the book. It is not enough to show it all. It is not what the beginning says. I am talking about this topic. Without really understanding what it is, we will reach the point where we are trying to repair the bullock cart that I mentioned earlier
12:30 because we think that if we do that, we will do this. That is not what I am saying. What should we do with these children when they start the important classroom? It is important to know that education is about developing all our senses while doing so. Therefore, we know the world through one sense . It's not like we're just sitting there looking at the same thing, but we're actually seeing the same thing in two different ways. Otherwise, there is something out there that knows what this entire universe is all about. We experience it differently through each of our senses . That is what is experienced. So when we understand that level, the more senses there are, the more complexly we know it with different senses. We know the
13:17 universe itself and nothing else. So the possibilities increase according to that. According to what we know through each of these senses, the possibilities of our life increase. That's why dogs and elephants have their own sense of smell. That Thomas is standing there, holding it up like this. There is Rama Nair here. There's not much to teach like this. We should look at it this way . We don't use anything else at all . We can smell a little. But if it comes with training, it's even better. Then, as you try, you will naturally have a tendency to become
14:04 more aware of those senses . I am testing that place of it. Then a body that is trying to smell. Then it is to develop it further. That is the sign of life. The mechanism that says to develop the senses more is given by God. Then you will not understand it. I am not saying this. That is why you do not understand it. Now we just have to look at that creature that used to live where there is light. Now when a fish goes down to the dark places, this eye disappears and only a hole is seen.
14:50 Because the eye is very expensive. To maintain the eye. Where there is no light, there is no need for the eye. So the eyes are closed and the other senses are developed. This is what life always does. This is what I call this education. So we are a creature with so many senses and all this work is done on the basis of only two. We are told to develop the senses. This is what should happen in the classroom. This child has come as a unique genetic material. There is no one like him in the world. Therefore, the child who gives full attention to one person will be given full attention. If I say classroom again, it's not our classroom here, I'm talking about
15:37 giving attention to the many different people who are close by, recognizing their potential, and giving them a guide that says, "You should go and study within this." What is the research you're talking about? What should happen in the nursery class? The most expensive classroom in the world should be in this nursery, where we find out what's in this child. Today, we're all wasting all that time by assigning a few poor people to look after this child. Then the fertilizer is applied to the ears. We have to start there, we are the top heavy, not there now, that's what we need, this nursery
16:23 class, people with PhDs should come, psychologists should come, people with knowledge about health should be there, that's where the child's surroundings, experts in all subjects in the world should be there, we are ready to obey, if you tell me in the morning, I will obey 24 hours a day, I said, it was because of that initiative that I eliminated the classroom. Didn't I say earlier, a child who asks 300 questions will be given three questions in the classroom [music]
