There are uneducated laborer, just like carpenter. He doesn’t require any education. He doesn’t require to become M.A., Ph.D. All these laborers are working so nicely. So why they should waste their time in going to school and college? As soon as he’s ten years old only, let him learn practically how to weave cloth, how to become carpenter, to become other craftsman. And in due course of time he can earn his… How to cultivate land.Why so many big, big universities for inviting everyone? There is no need. Educated means brahmana, ksatriya. Brahmana will give real knowledge, and ksatriyas will govern. For vaisyas and sudras, there is no… It is waste of time. Formerly it was done so. The vaisyas, they have got a son, goes to a shopkeeper: “Please here let my son work with you. He doesn’t want any salary.” So he gets engagement. Then, by seeing, seeing, he becomes little important. And the proprietor gives him some hand expense. And then, one day, he becomes very expert. He starts his own business. That was the system. Why he should go and waste time for education? A boy is given to a carpenter. He learns very easily. A weaver, he learns very easily. A shopkeeper, grocer, he learns very easily. That is education. Why he should waste time for academic education and create unemployment? So long he’s not educated, he has got enough employment. Still they take in the morning, say, half a maund of dal and goes home to home: [Hindi] So by selling half a maund of dal, he makes up these two, three rupees’ profit. That’s all. Where is unemployment?

Srila Prabhupada — June 24, 1977, Vrndavana