I did not watch the movie in recent past but it just came back from the memory lanes (Flashback). It would be interesting (at least worth) to think about a movement started by the students aimed at changing the handful of population governing us. Watch movie YUVA and one can not help but think that it is possible and perhaps necessary. What is education aiming at if not creating a better environment for the people in general. If it does not address the questions that it is supposed to address, it is not different from the otherwise monotonous way of living i.e. trying to make external environment suitable for oneself. Everybody from a labor to a CEO does that. Then why study and why call all the people the intellectual capital of nation. In a way education system might be purposefully taking us away from these fundamental questions and landing us in a situation where all the options open to us are such that none addresses the core issue. For me there were options of going in research, continuing as a vet and practice medicine or come in a management school but joining any association (not essentially a political party) was not even a fisible option for me. For many others this would hold true. WHY?
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I partially agree with you. No doubt our education system needs tweaking to address many of the existing issues. But education system alone is not responsible for the present condition. One needs to introspect how much one has received from the existing education and how much actually being followed by him. When so called educated people(many) do not follow rules and show 'what is in it for me' attitude, how can one expects them to bring paradigm shift in the system? What I think is that even if education teaches how to address core issue, in this system for a common man it will be a costly affair because it needs 'sacrifice'
Amit,when you say that our system of education needs to be revamped and revised seriously, I agree with you to an extent. For most Indians, education is a means of earning a decent livelihood, rising in stature and earning great bucks so as to lead a luxurious life. We study so many things in class but how much of it do we really understand and follow? Very little, I presume. We read so much about ethics, value, right behaviour, co-operation etc., but how many of us remember these things at our workplace? Very few. Had these things been so important to us, we would not have ben witnessing so many scandals, pilferages, frauds. I feel these things can't be taught to people. Morality, a sense or doing right or wrong, a helping nature, these come from within. In inculcating these things, the family plays the most important role.The way a child has been raised and the kind of environment he has lived in, have a direct bearing on the way his values are shaped up. He develops his own perceptions about the world. So, this has not much to do with our formal system of education. Yes, the education system does play an active part in enhancing his critical thinking because that gives him exposure to a whole gamut of bizarre situations. But, the system alone does not have a role in shaping up the thinking and thought process of an individual. So, I think we need to do a lot of self-introspection and reflect upon our values, our actions, our responses to various conditions. May be then we can judge correctly what is right and what is not.
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