IIT Lied to Us? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00I meet my batch mates and it's often irritating to them when I say IIT left us high and dry and

00:06uneducated. Uneducated. We are vocationally trained. Why? Because the purpose was placements.

00:11So the greatest accomplishment is if you can somehow get placed and start earning money to

00:17put food to eat and that is sufficient. We have been deprived of bread for just so long that

00:22everything has to be about bread and butter. Everything. So anything that you do people

00:27will ask is there money in it and there is a point there because there was no money for

00:32centuries. General awareness, history, some philosophy. Why don't you get exposed to them?

00:37Because the knowledge won't fetch you money. Where is richness in life? Can there be richness

00:42in life without purposeless knowledge?