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00:00Achareji, after a lot of study and thought process and after listening various analysts
00:08and scholars and philosophers, I decided to withdraw my child from a renowned English
00:15medium school and enrolled him into a Marathi medium school, which is my native language.
00:22So considering all the factors that learning in mother tongue develops the child much better
00:27than that learning from a non-native language education.
00:32In this case, it was English language, non-native.
00:35So now he is in first standard, he is learning in Marathi school.
00:41So the things which I am becoming afraid of are something like that.
00:46In that school, the facilities like there is no playground, there is some unpleasant classrooms,
00:52which I have earlier seen in the English medium schools.
00:56And the parent crowd in that school is very behind relatively in the education, means
01:01the open mind perspective.
01:03And mostly they come from the lower economic strata.
01:07And the teaching staff is average, but not very matured enough and driven by some old fashioned
01:14social cultures.
01:15For example, they celebrated a doll's marriage in their school and literally the students
01:24were following the marriage of ceremony.
01:26So concluding this, my question is, shall I take a tough decision that enrolling my kid
01:34again into a renowned English medium school where he will at least get some good sports culture
01:39or disciplines?
01:40There is a phrase in logic.
01:44It comes from Greek, Latin, I don't know.
01:47It must be from Greek.
01:48Mostly they come from Greek.
01:50Cetiris Peribus.
01:51Okay.
01:52Heard of it?
01:54Never.
01:55Those from an economics background would know of it.
01:58What does that mean?
01:58All things remaining equal, only if everything else is equal, then this conclusion holds good.
02:11Yes, a Marathi medium school is better than an English or French or Russian medium school.
02:20Only Cetiris Peribus, if everything else is equal.
02:26If there are two schools, one is Marathi medium, one is English medium, and they are equal in
02:30all other respects, the only difference is the medium of instruction.
02:35One is English, one is through Marathi.
02:38Only then the Marathi school is preferable.
02:42Basics of logic, sir.
02:46That completes my answer.
02:49You used the word perspective.
02:51What does perspective mean?
02:53Perspective means to keep a thing in its proper place.
02:56To know the place and size of a thing in the macro context, that's perspective.
03:03You are seeing just one thing, the medium of instruction.
03:07You are not seeing the size of the playground.
03:09You are not seeing the cultural biases of the teachers.
03:13You are not seeing 70 other factors that are operational.
03:20How can you come to a valid conclusion?
03:34Same thing I find with many people who say, no, I'm pulling my kid out of the school and
03:39I will prefer homeschooling.
03:41Homeschooling has these many advantages.
03:43Yes.
03:44All those advantages are there.
03:47If you can give all the advantages of the regular formal kind of schooling at home as well, then
03:58homeschooling is preferable compared to the formal schooling.
04:04But can you give the other things at home?
04:05Do you have a lab at home?
04:06Do you have a playground at home?
04:08Do you have 200 other kids to give him company at home?
04:12Do you have discipline at home?
04:16You do not have these things at home.
04:20You are considering just one thing that has maybe a 5-10% weightage.
04:24And you are forgetting all the other things that have 90-95% weightage.
04:29What kind of rationality is this?
04:32Being spiritual does not mean that you have to necessarily rebel against everything.
04:47You do not have to be a professional rebel.
04:55You do not have to make it a point to compulsorily go against the crowd.
05:02If you do that, neither you nor I are entitled to wear these shirts.
05:14Because that's what all the commoners do.
05:16Let's be special.
05:18Let's put our socks on both these arms.
05:24And our undergarments on our chests.
05:28We don't have to necessarily go against the flow.
05:33We don't have to necessarily go with the flow either.
05:36We have to logically see what is best.
05:40What is the intellect for?
05:44This too is some kind of a cult.
05:54Militating against everything that is contemporary or prevalent or modern.
06:02Everything.
06:04Obviously, the contemporary things or prevalent things, they come with their share of inadequacies
06:19and harms.
06:21So, you have to see how to navigate through it to minimize the harm and maximize the benefit.
06:28You can't summarily reject everything that is modern or contemporary.
06:36It's not as if the modern civilization is just totally debauched.
06:41It has its own share of merits, sir.
06:44And let's acknowledge that.
06:46I will not, you know, I am a great parent.
06:49I do not allow my kid to watch TV at all.
06:51I don't concur with that.
06:54You have to be discreet.
06:56See what can be allowed and see what cannot be.
07:02See what is good for the kid, see what is not.
07:04And leave a few things to the child's discretion.
07:07I do not allow the kid to play these modern European sports.
07:20He will only play Kabaddi and Khokho.
07:24Kabaddi is a great sport and India has been doing well in that.
07:27We acknowledge that.
07:28But we also know the benefits of racket sports.
07:34And racket sports in India do not come to us from tradition.
07:39Be it badminton or tennis or squash or table tennis.
07:44They come to us from abroad.
07:49You know, medical research proves that if you want to really live healthily,
07:56racket sports are the best for that.
07:59Why just rubbish everything that belongs to the sage?
08:16Just as everything cannot be accepted in total, similarly everything cannot be rejected in total.
08:26Vivek, discretion.
08:30Yes, I would want the kid to be a great man fluent in his native language.
08:41Right?
08:43A great person fluent in his native language.
08:46But what if it comes to a choice between greatness and fluency in native language?
08:51What would you pick?
08:53What if it comes to this?
08:56That he can either be great in consciousness or he can be fluent in the native language.
09:02What would you pick?
09:04Obviously greatness.
09:06Language is a wonderful thing.
09:11And I too have a special feeling for our native languages.
09:16One by one we are launching channels in the native languages.
09:25We already have five.
09:27Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Kannad.
09:33Two more are on their way.
09:36We respect our native languages, we love them.
09:39But that does not mean that you don't have to benefit from what is not native.
09:54Nativity is fine.
09:57But truth is above everything else.
10:02Are you getting it?
10:06Yes, we all love our native foods, our staple diet.
10:11Who does not?
10:13But that does not mean that I will not have a look at Mexican cuisine or whatever, continental
10:21or Italian, I, Japanese.
10:30Have a look at everything.
10:34One cannot be biased either side.
10:41And we see both kinds of biases.
10:43There are those who are such fans of everything that is not Indian.
10:51That they are ever ready to consume even shit provided it is imported.
11:03And then there are those who say, you know, we are Indians.
11:08So gober.
11:11Unfortunately, in India, the ecosystem, the educational infrastructure in the native languages is pretty weak.
11:24Not that schools don't exist.
11:26They exist a plenty.
11:28But as you pointed out, the quality of teachers, the quality of the crowd, all that is a bit abysmal.
11:40And there is no obligation on you to make the child suffer due to your linguistic biases.
11:53Today we have the biggest Hindi language channel.
11:58Must be in the entire world, right?
12:03Entire world.
12:05I have had an English medium education throughout.
12:10You hear of those schools where kids are penalized for speaking in the native, the vernacular.
12:27Right?
12:28Yeah.
12:29I come from such schools.
12:32And obviously I do not support anglicization of the mind.
12:50You also probably know that my English medium education has contributed to what I am currently doing.
13:02That's a curious thing.
13:05This world's largest Hindi language channel probably could not have come without my English medium education.
13:17So many of the great poets think of Agye for example.
13:22Their education was in English.
13:26And they went on to become stalwarts in the Hindi field.
13:35Think of Gandhi, a coat paint donning barrister from London then South Africa.
13:46And he becomes the Hindi heartland's Mahatma.
13:51When he went to Champaran, he didn't even know the Bihari language.
14:01Bhojpuri was spoken and written in the Kaythi script and Gandhi knew neither.
14:13And he is a Gujarati returning from abroad.
14:18And see where he begins his mission in Bihar.
14:27His education abroad helped him do great things in the Hindi heartland.
14:36You don't have to stick to Hindi and Hindism to do good to the Hindi people.
14:48You don't have to stick to the Marathi language to do good to the Maratha homeland.
14:55And you can even be a great Marathi scholar without having studied in a Marathi medium school.
15:10Obviously, if you get a Marathi medium school that is almost at par with the standards of an English medium school,
15:22then you must definitely opt for the Marathi school.
15:25Definitely!
15:26But if the difference is too large, then we cannot be unjust to the kid.
15:43Swami Vivekananda is a Bengali icon.
15:48Did he receive his at least higher education in the Bengali medium? No, he did not.
15:59And today he is revered in Bengal, particularly because his education enabled him to go abroad
16:07and do great things there.
16:10Had he known only Bengali, would he have been able to achieve the feat that he did in Chicago, 1893?
16:26And obviously his hold over the Bengali language was awesome!
16:39Nehru too had an exclusively English education.
16:44But you listen to him speaking in Hindi.
16:46He used to call it Hindustani.
16:48You listen to him speaking in Hindi.
16:52And there is such fineness.
16:57Tagore.
16:58The very pride of Bengal.
16:59The very pride of Bengal.
17:00Immaculate English.
17:01And which language did the Gitanjali appear in?
17:03Bengali.
17:04Bengali.
17:05The very pride of Bengal.
17:06The very pride of Bengal.
17:07The very pride of Bengal.
17:08The very pride of Bengal.
17:09The very pride of Bengal.
17:12Immaculate English.
17:15Immaculate English.
17:24And which language did the Gitanjali appear in?
17:28Bengali.
17:30Bengali.
17:35You know, to get the Nobel it had to be translated.
17:38So that they could understand.
17:47Not an either or thing.
17:50The first thing is quality.
17:52The first thing is that the child should be built up.
17:59The first thing is that education should be able to raise consciousness.
18:04The language comes after that.
18:08The medium of instruction comes after.
18:10It is very important.
18:11But it is not the first thing.
18:14The first thing is consciousness.
18:16The second thing is language.
18:22of the leadership.
18:23of the Kimran.
18:24The next principle is that
18:25that human is you.
18:26withinals.
18:27That human is because this brain is the greatest blame in an animal.
18:28There are two main lata.
18:29There are four kids!
18:30That human does not have life!
18:31accepted security bırak paradings,
18:32the
18:38the people must alive,
18:40that there,
18:41that there is
18:42that we should intenses.
18:43Where does hört?
18:44First thing,
18:45the First thing is ?