1. Education: no Bhagavad-gita, simply training for sense gratification

    Kaumara means from fifth year to tenth year, five years. Within these five years, education must begin. And especially dharman bhagavatan. Bhagavata-dharma means to understand Krsna, to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I know, amongst the Muhammadans it is a system that small children, they are taught Koran. That is very good system. But we have forgotten. Although India is the land of spiritual culture, our small children, they go to school, colleges, but he has no connection with Bhagavad-gita. He has no connection with Bhagavad-gita. They are simply trained up for sense gratification. In Western countries also — for sense gratification. Which is to be suppressed-sense gratification-that education is given. They do not know what is karma and what is vikarma. Now, when the students become disobedient and they create riots and set fire in the buses, then they lament. But why you have educated the students like that? Who is responsible for this? The rascals, they do not know.

    Srila Prabhupada, Talk on Bhagavad-gita 4.16 — April 5, 1974, Bombay