In plain words
Even in a position of authority there is no room to give way to Ahaṅkāra. And will you give way to Ahaṅkāra over education! Education means this: only what is free of Ahaṅkāra is education. If there is Ahaṅkāra, it is not education at all. ‘Vidyā vinaya sampanne,’ they said. ‘Paṇḍitaḥ samadarśanaḥ’: so this equal vision and humility are fostered by education.
Who is the blind man on this earth? The one who has all learning and no Jñāna is the blind one, they say.
That is: when we see our elders, when we act according to place, time and person, we should become most humble and set about offering our individuality in such a way that we render some kinds of service to all. This alone is the right meaning of true education.
We Must Look on the Universe Itself as a School
Do not strut, brother, because you have beauty, youth and strength of the senses; ahead of you, and very soon, lies the crocodiles' feast called old age: you cannot move about, your eyes grow dim, your face falls into wrinkles, your hair has gone grey, you know; and when little children, calling you ‘old monkey’, snigger at you, you snap at them, you puppet!……
So, when we who are students take no account of wealth, authority, caste or age, and keep education alone as our aim, we become the ones who, with humility, give education a shining radiance. We must become people who recognise their duty, and never crane our necks after authority and set about throwing this whole world into turmoil. When we want to be an authority in learning, when we want to acquire education, we must recognise our duty in some measure. Know your own true nature, look into how the world stands, and set about bringing out within yourself, in your daily experience, the power and capacity of the restlessness that has broken out in this humanness.
Students, embodiments of the divine Ātma! To gain this education we go to college, go on to other places of learning, enter school; all this goes on.