In plain words
Students today pursue many studies for the sake of their daily bread. You will have seen it in the circus: even monkeys can learn many kinds of skills. If you, born as human beings, behave like dogs, jackals and monkeys, what then is the use of pursuing education? We must put the learning we have gained to good use. Only then does it bear fruit; it gives us true strength. We have not come merely for study. Even so, we must study; we must take good degrees. But merely taking degrees is not enough.
Are all who have learnt to read and write educated? Does gaining college degrees make one educated? Without true wisdom and good deeds, does learning become true learning? If learning is only for making a living, do not the beasts and birds live too!
Only when we keep before us as our aim the supreme goal of life as well as our livelihood does the education we have received bear fruit. But every human being must keep before him the work he came for. What use is it to boast, ‘I have passed my M.B.A.; I have got degrees in plenty’? We must put them to good use, surely! First of all, we must recognise why we have come. The power to recognise this lies in man alone. Somehow we came, earned plenty of money, put it in the bank, educated our children, sent them abroad. But this much alone does not make life fruitful! You must never forget why you have come. But today the work you came for is one thing, and the work you are doing, having forgotten it, is another! You are still in this world. To the very end you must experience Śānti; you must attain Ānanda that is Satya and eternal. Those who serve with good feeling always meet with good alone.
Mahātmā Gandhi went to London and gained a barrister's degree. He wished to put the education he had received to good use in the service of society.