I am not a man against education; if I were, I would not have gone further into seeking knowledge. I am planning to take a different course so that I can learn what I want to learn. No, I am not against education, but I am a man against the present educational system, prevailing in, if I am right, India and Britain primarily.
When I was in school, there were moral ethics. I knew the difference between right and wrong. When teachers taught me, I would be able to grasp them and understand them to the fullest. School was a time when I could learn something more from books.
By the time I reached college, the whole education morality had started to crumble in front of me. Studying was to get marks, so that one could get to a company, make money, get a family, secure their future. The importance of trying to understand what is being taught had diminished within many of my fellow mates, and so it did in me. I was eager to know more, but I realized I was not going to understand a word because I had taken a course not of my choice. So I blamed myself as I left college, four years later.
But now when I am typing this, I have to say that I am quite dissatisfied by the present educational system. What I faced in college was in fact a virus that had spread to schools too. Everyone wants to pass, and get to a college. No, they do not Want to take a low course, but only engineering and medicines (and if not both, at the best, CA). Why they wanted to learn, nobody knew the answer except the common statement ‘To get a job’.
We have heard of many successful people, but most of them were not oriented towards education alone. They were oriented to knowledge, wisdom, understanding, talent, imagination and courage. Earlier educational system could provide these factors, but now the educational system has got itself oriented towards getting marks and later jobs.
People have forgotten to live in this course of life. Life is not about simply getting a job and making money, it is about doing what you want to do. There is a quote in the super hit movie 3 Idiots ‘Never run behind success, run behind perfection. Success will come behind you.’ Alas, the movie has not been able to make an impact in today’s generation.
Life is not about getting marks. When you are asked to learn Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Ceaser’, you are not expected to simply understand the grammatical points and the thought of the author, but you are meant to see what you feel when you read them. When you do a problem in Maths, it is not just to study, but to understand the importance of Maths in day to day life (apart from counting the missing amount from your salary).
There is a lot to learn about than to get educated. Break out the chains, you are not meant to be in the constraints. Choose a course of your desire, live life the way you want. Do what you like to do. Never listen to what others have to say. If you are not to listen yourself, then how can you expect the world to respond to you?
Your life, your choice.
And to the present educational system…screw yourself! You are allowed to tamper the creativity and enthusiasm in the new generation, for they are the ones to bring out a change. Education should never be to get marks, but to learn, about everything, and about life. Education should not be about certificates, because one can never be judged with a piece of paper. (If you have doubts on that, check the life of Henry Ford, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and many as such, including Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison).
Life is to learn, understand and move ahead of time, not to get good marks so that you can end up in a cubicle. I know Venkatesh who studied well and now works for a power-plant, because he loved doing it, and I know many others who took the course because it was a better option. I know Nirmal KS, Sajeesh, Bhavin and many such who got arrears but ended up with a great job and post because they liked ding what they wanted to do, and I know people who are sulking in jobs they don’t like to do. And I know myself, for I have broken the constraints, and the whole team of my company who think the same. What you want to do is a choice.Life and death is a choice of man, and so is how to live and how to die.
