Devotee (2): Prabhupāda, the education is to teach the students how to find out on their own. They say if you take authority from somebody else, it just stifles their growth, and that is not actually knowledge, that is not learning. But you encourage them or give them the facility...
Prabhupāda: But why the rascal is called to the school? He may learn at home.
Devotee (2): Well, they want to condition them...
Prabhupāda: What?
Devotee (2): ...with various values.
Prabhupāda: What is the value? If you are calling him to take education from the school, that means he is accepting authority. Let him be educated at home. Why the college?
Devotee: But in the classrooms, they simply...
Prabhupāda: No, no, no, first of all, the principle? What is this principle?
Rāmeśvara: To train him in the methods of...
Prabhupāda: Yes. So that means authority. You are teaching him to accept the authority. And you are teaching against authority. Everything contradictory. One side, contraceptive; one side, illicit sex. And the.... But Vedic civilization says, "All right, as soon as woman is widow, let her remain as a saintly woman—no more sex." But "No, you can marry and you can have sex hundred times daily, but use contraceptive." Is that civilization? To train one woman not to have any more sex, this is also contraceptive. And another way that "You can have sex any amount, as many times as you like. Take this contraceptive." Whose civilization better? And you call him to be trained up to accept authority and teach him, "Don't accept any authority." Is that education? Nonsense.
Haṁsadūta: They're doing that.
Prabhupāda: Yes, they are doing that.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: This is the idea of the secular state, though...
Prabhupāda: Well, secul.... Whatever you name it, you're all set of rascals. That's all. (laughter) You can change the name in different way, but on the whole, you are all set of rascals. This is the whole world's beauty.
Morning Walk -- March 19, 1976, Māyāpura
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