In plain words
A little while ago some people here sang a song, ‘I and you are one’. Far better than this is the feeling ‘All are one’. We must conduct ourselves towards all with equal-mindedness. If so broad a feeling is to arise in us, we must develop ‘Educare’.
‘Educare’ belongs to the knowledge of experience
The education today's students pursue is of the material world. It is merely Bookish knowledge. It may be called Superficial Knowledge. It keeps on changing. Above all, students must nourish General knowledge and Common sense. What is true? What is untrue? They must develop the Discrimination knowledge that asks this. Step by step they must enter into Practical Knowledge. This itself is ‘Educare’. It is eternal and true; at no time does it change.
One who is truly educated gives no room to bad qualities and does not stoop to wicked deeds. Education means Jñāna. Jñāna is not an acquaintance with books. Today's student fills his head with bookish knowledge, goes to the examination hall, pours all that is in his head out onto the paper, and comes out with an empty head. Bookish knowledge is not the thing students must gain. Yet, for maintaining worldly life, this too is needed to some extent. Along with it, they must also study spiritual learning. “Adhyātma vidyā vidyānāṃ,” said the Bhagavad Gītā. The washerman goes from house to house and takes the clothes the people give him. Each household writes down in a notebook the clothes it has given. But the washerman writes nothing down about who gave which clothes. Even so, in the evening he brings each one's clothes back to them, correctly. The educated of today lack even as much general knowledge as a washerman has. General knowledge is not a thing that comes with study. From birth it is within you yourselves. You must develop it.