Osho says &quot;Children have to be taught how to think, not how to believe; they need to be helped to understand themselves, not to have blind faith in someone else&#39;s ideas. And only when religion is based on self-knowledge and not of blind faith can it be united with education. And the result will be sheer bliss!&quot;

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The true education according to Osho will have two wings, Love and meditation. Osho says,&nbsp; "If only the child's intellect is educated he will be partially paralyzed; there will be no fullness, no totality in his life. One of his legs will always be crippled, and his life will be a limping. It is only because all others are lame too that no one recognizes the fact. Children have a game called lame race in which one of their legs is tied to another child's leg, so only one of their legs can run free. This is virtually the way our life is organized, so that we are running on one leg only. It is hardly surprising that we fail, collapse, break down! Meditation is the second leg. We should teach children meditation as we start educating their intellect. Just as the child comes to understand science, he should come to understand religion simultaneously. As his head grows brighter let his heart also grow full of light. Let him not grow up only to know about, let him grow up also to be. Let it not be only his possessions that grow, let him grow too! Let not only his exterior expand, let his interiority also have a depth, just as the trees rise up in the sky but their roots go deep underground. The deeper the roots go underground the higher the tree rises in the sky."&nbsp;Osho shares His vision on Education and how it can complement present education system, “The education that has prevailed in the past is very insufficient, incomplete, superficial. It only creates people who can earn their livelihood but it does not give any insight into living itself. It is not only incomplete, it is harmful too -- because it is based on competition. Any type of competition is violent deep down, and creates people who are unloving. Their whole effort is to be the achievers -- of name, of fame, of all kinds of ambitions. Obviously they have to struggle and be in conflict with themselves. That destroys their joys and that destroys their friendliness. It seems everybody is fighting against the whole world. Education up to now has been goal-oriented: what you are learning is not important; what is important is the examination that will come a year or two years later. It makes the future important -- more important than the present. It sacrifices the present for the future. And that becomes your very style of life; you are always sacrificing the moment for something, which is not present. It creates a tremendous emptiness in life.”&nbsp;Bringing out the essence of education, Osho says, "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. It will not teach you that you can be happy only when you are the first. That is sheer nonsense. You can't be happy just by being first. And in trying to be first you go through such misery that you become habituated to misery by the time you become the first."&nbsp;Osho's vision of education is five dimensional. The first dimension is informative like languages, history, geography and many other subjects, which can be dealt by television and computers. In the second dimension comes the scientific subjects that can be imparted again by television and computers with the guidance of a human being. The third dimension is the art of living, love, laughter and an acquaintance with life, its wonders, its mysteries… a reverence for life is the foundation of this dimension. The fourth dimension is art and creativity where the child can choose from the whole rainbow of creative arts and become a part of existence, which is constantly creative. The fifth dimension of Osho's vision of education is the art of dying which includes all meditations so that the child can become aware of the eternal life inside him.

Children Meditation Camp is based on Osho’s insight on education for children. Osho says, “Education means drawing your inner being into expression in your living, your day-to-day life. Your honesty, your love, your compassion, should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.”