--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: A real education will not teach you to…" description: "\"“A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/881/osho-519_arjuna_a-real-education-will-not-teach-you-to-c_3063189.jpg" --- # A real education will not teach you to compete; it will… ![“A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative, to be loving, to be blissful, without any comparison with the other.. A real education will not teach you to be the first. It will tell…” quote by Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/881/osho-519_arjuna_a-real-education-will-not-teach-you-to-c_3063189.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/881/osho-519_arjuna_a-real-education-will-not-teach-you-to-c_3063189.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/881/osho-519_arjuna_a-real-education-will-not-teach-you-to-c_3063189.jpg) > ““A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative, to be loving, to be blissful, without any comparison with the other.. A real education will not teach you to be the first. It will tell you to enjoy whatsoever you are doing, not for the result but for the act itself. Just like a painter or a dancer or a musician…. You can paint in two ways. You can paint to compete with other painters; you want to be the greatest painter in the world, you want to be a Picasso or a Van Gogh. Then your painting will be second-rate, because your mind is not interested in painting itself; it is interested in being the first, the greatest painter in the world. You are not going deep into the art of painting. You are not enjoying it, you are only using it as a stepping- stone. You are on an ego trip. And the problem is: to really be a painter, you have to drop the ego completely. To really be a painter, the ego has to be put aside. Only then can God flow through you. Only then can he use your hands and your fingers and your brush. Only then something of superb beauty can be born. It is never BY you but only THROUGH you. Existence flows; you become only a passage. You allow it to happen, that's all; you don't hinder, that's all. But if you are too interested in the result, the ultimate result - that you have to become famous, that you have to win the Nobel Prize, that you have to be the first painter in the world, that you have to defeat all other painters hitherto - then your interest is not in painting; painting is secondary. And of course, with a secondary interest in painting you can't paint something original; it will be ordinary. Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. And so is the case with everybody. In the Gita, Krishna says: Don't think of the result at all. It is a message of tremendous beauty and significance and truth. Don't think of the result at all. Just do what you are doing with your totality. Get lost into it. Lose the doer in the doing. Don't be - let your creative energies flow unhindered. That's why he said to Arjuna, "Don't escape from the war... because I can see this is just an ego trip, this escape. The way you are talking simply shows that you are calculating: that you are thinking that by escaping from the war you will become a great mahatma. Rather than surrendering to God, to the whole, you are taking yourself too seriously: as if, if you are not there, there will be no war." Krishna says to Arjuna, "Listen to me. Just be in a state of let-go. Say to God, 'Use me in whatsoever way you want to use me. Use me! I am available, unconditionally available.' Then whatsoever happens through you will have a great authenticity about it. It will have intensity, it will have depth. It will have the impact of the eternal on it. It will be signed by God, not by you. And you will rejoice because God has chosen you to be a vehicle.”” [Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. True education prioritizes cooperation, creativity, and joy over competition and ego, allowing authentic expression to flow through the individual. **In simple terms:** Education should foster cooperation and joy, not competition. Key Takeaway Focus on process, not ego. Themes cooperation creativity ego spirituality Mood reflective inspirational Type philosophical spiritual When to use this quote - teaching - artistic practice - personal development - spiritual practice Key Concepts mindfulness flow self‑transcendence Questions to Reflect On - How can you shift from competition to collaboration? - What practices help quiet the ego? 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