ABSTRACT
Are you ready? We are entering an immensely significant domain of enquiry: Why is it that in modern/secular times education becomes predominantly scientific? And are there discontents of civilization, despite the mantra of science and secularization? And then, can we rediscover the deeper values of religiosity/spirituality, and redefine education to take us to a finer state of consciousness? I wish to divide this lecture into two parts; and with socio-political as well as philosophical sensibilities, I will try to place this debate before you as honestly as possible. In the first part of the lecture, I will place the arguments that the proponents of science and secular education put forward; and in the second part, I will speak about the discontents of purely scientific/secular education, and argue why it is also important to redefine religiosity and incorporate it in the agenda of education. And of course in this discourse the Indian landscape will appear repeatedly. So let us begin the journey.
