In plain words
They hope they will draw a good salary. But parents who hope they will become good citizens are very few. They think the parents' duty is to earn plenty of money and hand it on to the son. They hope only that he will win a lofty name. But they do not hope that he will have lofty, exemplary qualities. Even students who have come in with some measure of discrimination and a spiritual bent, the parents knock down. The fathers are becoming Hiraṇyakaśipus: their sons have grown in Bhakti and surrender, in humility and obedience, in Śānti and saṃskāra, and they rebuke them, 'Why do you want all this now, at this young age, boy?', and lead them onto the wrong path. Not only this. Whatever impure deeds the children do, whatever deeds against Dharma, though they take the wrong path, evil notions are growing in these people that defend their sons as very great. They do not strive as they should to tell them their faults in the right way and set them on a good path. When children take the wrong path, knowingly or unknowingly, the elders who have come to know of it must strive as they should to put them on the right path. It is by going on defending the children in this way that they are becoming like Dhṛtarāṣṭra's sons. It is because today's fathers are Hiraṇyakaśipus and Dhṛtarāṣṭras that students are turning into Kauravas. There is no fault at all in the students. It is the parents who are leading them onto the wrong path. They think this is great Prema. This is not Prema. They are doing great harm to their future. It is because such people, who lead others onto the wrong path, have grown that educational institutions are gradually following perverse ways. The flame that says 'This is my race, this is my saṃskāra, this is my heritage' has gone out in the heart of the educational institutions. In the heart of today's students we must light the flame of the faith that says 'This is my culture, this is my heritage, this is my human race'.
Students! Riches and might: these are not what matters. Character alone is what matters. What riches Dhṛtarāṣṭra had! What became of him in the end? Just because he kept sons who had no character, all his riches burnt away with no furnace at all. Strength: which strength? The strength of wealth? The strength of the arm? The strength of the intellect? It is the strength of good qualities we need. All of today's education only increases cleverness; it does not increase good qualities. So we must develop the education that increases good qualities. People of good qualities must come forth. We do not need today's modern education. We do not want a new society. We do not want new changes in education.