Education is to bring you from darkness to light. That's what I am doing here. Parmar has asked this question because the Indian government is not ready to accept my work as education. It is natural. They cannot accept it as education because I don't create clerks and stationmasters and deputy collectors. I am creating new human beings. For them that is dangerous. If this is education, then they cannot allow it to happen. It is rebellion.
I am teaching you to be yourself. I am teaching you to be fearless; I am teaching you not to yield to social pressure; I am teaching you not to be a conformist. I am teaching you not to hanker for comfort and convenience – because if you hanker for comfort and convenience, society will give them to you, but at a cost. And the cost is great: you get convenience, but you lose your consciousness. You get comfort, but you lose your soul.
You can have respectability, but then you are not true to yourself; you are a pseudo human being. Society wants that you should betray yourself. Society wants to use you as a machine, society wants you to be obedient. Society does not need you to function as an intelligent being – because an intelligent being will behave in an intelligent way, and there may be moments when he will say, "No, I cannot do that." —Osho, "The Secret," Discourse 2, Question 4 (October 12, 1978) [x]