We DonT NEeD nO EdUcAtIOn !!

Have been reading the banned Opal Mehta got kissed book since last 2 days and it really makes me wonder the kind of hysterical dread that parents stuff into young nubile minds. The need to succeedingly achieve competence is leading Indian parents to groom their Youngsters right since they are out of a mother’s womb; pushing their young ones towards continuously attaining echelons so that they design themselves into a perfecto sculpture of precision into this roller coaster rat race called LIFE.

Parents in a frenzy of making their children successful in life are now crossing unlimlitless boundaries. The kind of efforts put behind their children, if concentrated on their own professional lives – would definitely turn them into Mittals and Ambanis.

SO how does one define a successful life??

I say a victorious life for an Indian is made of 3 things – money, money, money?? And how does one attain money, the first answer by any Indian layman would be – become a Doctor or Engineer. Ask any Indian housewife what they would want their children to become, the answer would be a crystal clear IT professional who would fly off to the US of A and earn dollars or even better – get a green card.

So blind is the smoke screen filled with GREEN that youngsters like you and me have forgotten the actual need for education.

Education has become an alleyway to a glorious life filled with luxuries and GREENery , and no more a conduit towards enlightenment and being a better individual. Educational institutions are turned to mere placement agencies where the top grades are given to colleges that attract the highest placement offers and not to the ones that actually impart quality edification. Why do you think people try to bell the CAT for years and get into a prestigious IIM. Is it really the kind of quality education imparted? Or is it more for the underlined truth of SOciaL PrestiGe and secured placements. I seriously undermine the authenticity of poorly governed and government funded institutions like JBIMS where students actually crave for basic infrastructure. The fact that the institute gets top placements is only because the recruiters know that the top talent is screened and selected in these so called prestigious institutions during the admission / selection process.

How many students pursue microbiology for their pursuit towards decoding their biological fantasies? How many in India actually try and lead their life towards ones actual interests? Would Dhirubhai AMbani have ever allowed Anil to become a marine biologist if he had the fantasy for aquatic life? No parent in India would happily do that unless their child is a rebel and a self follower.

Indian education practices are narrowly bordered on all sides encompassing only empty vacuum in the form of streamlined, conventional, meaningless books and boring unattended lectures shaping into 3 yr bachelor course. It is high time the entire fraternity awakens to this incomprehensible nonsense and actually imparts QuaLitY EdUCaTIOn !!