Talk:Guidelines for Raising Children: Pay Attention to Children’s Education

By Vishal Agarwal

The purpose of an education is not just acquiring the ability to earn money but also to become a cultured, wholesome and informed individual. Even if parents are extremely wealthy, they must nevertheless ensure that their children get a good education because an uneducated and uncultured child is unfit for civic engagement and participation.

That mother is an enemy and that father shows hostility to their child when they do not provide him/her with a good education. This is because in an assembly of learned men, an uneducated person appears as if he were a crow in the midst of swans. Cāṇakya Nīti verse 65 (= Garuḍa Purāṇa 1.115.80)

A father benefits his son best by preparing him to sit at the forefront of learned councils. Tirukkuṟaḷ chapter 7, Kural 67