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        Illiterate rulers and highly literate subjects or educated tyrants and oppressed subjects were there in every clime and in every age all over the world.

        There was Hiranyakasipu, the demon who hated the Lord, who compelled a reform of teaching in favour of extolling him as the Lord.

        Saffronisation and detoxification of knowledge are thus part of the historic lineage of education. They reflect characteristic human fallibility.

        All this cannot be an alibi for colouring the content of learning in favour of motivated knowledge because such motivation would be injurious to the rising generation.

        Learning, according to Veda Vyasa, should preserve its purity. Such purity, according to him, consisted in absence of bias on the part of the teacher.

        Bias is defined by him as being the result of a compulsion or obsession of the teacher towards propagating false knowledge, misusing his role.

        Teaching should open the eye of knowledge by informing the mind with diligent honesty. Bias renders blind the mind and its perceptions.

        An ancient ethical text says that a teacher imparting false knowledge knowingly, should be blinded and executed.