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Show us the Value and not the Price Of EducationBY: Karthik | Category: Social Issues | Post Date: 2009-08-02
We're living in a world, where Education is still a traded commodity, and teachers mere merchants. This attitude of the academicians would beget ill-effects on our society. This ought to change, if we would like see our children grow in to responsible citizens of our country. However, I don't intend to overlook the philanthropic efforts undertaken by many eminent personalities and reputed institutions. But, all that I want is to throw those few rotten eggs away lest they should spoil the rest. -Education is the cheap defense of nations!- - Isn't time to question the incongruity of this obsolete thought of the Irish statesman, Edmund Burke made three centuries ago. Isn't it factual that the number of white/blue-collared crimes is on the rise, aren't we outsmarted (read tricked) by ‘educated,' ‘well-informed' scamsters (from Insurance agencies to consultancies to banks to stock-broking firms to doctors to lawyers to metro rail engineers) What's behind all this..? Hasn't education taught them the right way to lead their lives? Isn't sad to notice in a country where the illiteracy rate is a whopping 40%, the ‘privileged' literate lot hoodwinking the rest? Is something fundamentally wrong with our education system? Is the right kind of education being imparted in the right mode? While we're debating the quality of education that is being imparted ( or denied) for our children, the flip side of the story is even gorier - the cost of education is shooing away many an aspirant. The cost of education has already killed the engineer in me, the doctor in my sister....and needless to say, it has killed the real ‘human' in many! What with the ‘escalating price of our education,' many turn a blind eye towards the real import of education, and even those few who could afford this ‘luxury' become advocates of chicanery and casuistry. Let me throw this question in front of you - -What had stopped people like Dr. Ambedkar, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Kalam, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Muthulakshim Reddy, Kiran Bedi and many others from being anti-national, anti-social ? The answer is very simple - EDUCATION. It was Education that made them * Empowered * Daring * Useful * Charitable * Altruistic * Thoroughbred * Infallible * Optimistic * National assets On the other hand, what makes cyber criminals, people wielding power, tricksters, quacks, and other such charlatans be such wise, wicked men? The answer again is ‘Education.' It is again Education that made them * Egregious * Disgraceful * Unsavoury * Corrupting * Arrogant * Threatful * Inept * Outrageous * Nefarious people Since when has Education turned in to a common manger that feeds the cows and the cunning foxes alike. Isn't it high time we brought Education under the microscope to see if it has come a cropper to breed citizens of honour? When a significant portion of a person's childhood and youth is spent only within the portals of educational institutions and home, aren't teachers and parents responsible for analysing what's wrong and plug the hole before it sinks the whole ship? Unless schools and colleges stop functioning as commercial hubs (I, now, fully understand the real meaning of ‘Business' schools) and stop looking at students as milch cows, the ‘finesse' and utility of their ‘finished products' cannot be guaranteed. True, we've shifted from Gurukools to schools to virtual classrooms, so have our values drifted from being moral to menial to mendacious. If only a few ‘seeds' are capable of ‘generating,' then something's wrong with the ‘fertilizers' (teachers) or the ‘weather' (educational institutions) or the ‘earth' (the society) or the ‘genetic modification' (parents). Education should pave way to our dignity and not depravity. Research shows that Man is born with bestial instincts. And we know, what the Neanderthal man was up to - overpowering the lesser species, protecting his own herd, wielding and exercising brute force against the other herds: a complete incarnation of savagery and barbarism. Education alone can tame this brute force in Man, culture his mind and hold the reins of his insurmountable savagery. I dread to visualize, how detrimental would it be to the entire world, if, for want of proper education, we now slip in to our atavistic mode. Also, this time, the Neanderthal man in us will be wielding weapons far more dangerous than were ever imagined/devised then. By increasing the cost of education (unnecessarily), by making class-rooms butcher-shops of morality, by making education a bęte noire for our children, we're not just ruining the careers of many, but also causing more harm than actual good to our society. We're yet to find out how many Lincolns are still mending shoes, and how many Kalams are still selling newspapers. It's time we made education fun, valuable and value-based. Well, Edmund Burke wasn't wrong, when he averred - -Restraint and Discipline and examples of Virtue and Justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.- Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: Additional Articles: * OUR PALS UNDER THE PALL (Poem on Child labor) * Overview of banks * A Website, Then You Need To Be Blogging Too! * The women and her roles - Family and Relationships * Outside the White Lines Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? It is a violation of our terms for authors to submit content which they did not write and claim it as their own. If this article infringes on your copyrights, then use our Contact us form with the detailed proof of infringement along with the offending article's title, URL and writer name. If you do not hear back from us then contact us again in another 10 days. Thank you. 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