Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that authorities prioritize compliance over individuality, fearing the potential of free-thinking individuals.
Jiddu Krishnamurti's quote highlights a critical perspective on how governments and organized religions often prefer to cultivate a society of efficient technicians who adhere to norms, rather than encouraging the development of individuals who think independently and challenge authority. The fear is that true human beings, equipped with the capacity for critical thought and personal freedom, could pose a threat to the established structures of control in both government and religious contexts, which is why there is an emphasis on controlling educational systems.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of independent thinking in education.
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).
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