12 Wellbeing
Sadhguru (Left), Laura Wojciechowski (Right) at the Kayan Wellness Festival.
“If learning is making people miserable, we have not understood what learning is.”
E ducation UAE: How can parents protect their children's young minds from the conditioning that creates perceived worry and stress? Sadhguru: Recently, a journalist asked me, "14, 15-year-olds are stressed because exams are coming. They think their rank will determine their future. So, what do you tell them?" If learning is making people miserable, we have not understood what learning is because it is a natural human trait that when you get to know something that you did not know, it brings much joy to you. Unfortunately, we are not sending our children to school because we want them to learn. We send them to school because we want them to earn. This is an unfortunate way to handle education. Today we have created a society founded on the premise that life is a race. Right from childhood, from kindergarten, children have been told to be competitive. Parents ask their children, "Are you first or second rank?" Essentially, they are asking, "How badly are other children doing?" The only joy you have is that everyone else is doing worse than you. If our joy is about being better than someone else, it is not success; it is sickness. We must eliminate this whole nonsense of who is first and who is second. A child is a new life with new possibilities and potential.
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