Education - Rot in the system

In 2000 a engineering student would have felt happy after securing a distinction. A fail in one subject would have bothered him and his parents, but it was not a rare feat. Year loss was not a miracle, but a not so common phenomenon. Some subjects were always where students had fear of passing till the results were announced and others no one bothered to even study but still passes.

The faculty of the colleges, some dictated notes during class, some gave the notes for photocopying but not all followed the same general principle. The teaching varied from purely exam point view to most general and some even confused the students about the methodology. Different kinds of teachers were there, some very ordinary and some extraordinary based on the tastes of the students of the class.

Some periods always used to have a background murmuring while in those of strict faculty there was a near pin drop silence.  The absolute silence in the classroom was found only when there are no students inside the class.  The parents of the students cared less about the internal marks and some didn't even bother to check about the final marks also.

In the end, the 100 odd students have completed the engineering with me, few were left out and later could complete the course. Now many of them are successful people. The salaries of all the batch mates may not be in sync with the marks obtained, but nevertheless everyone got a job and is earning in means possible to make a life. During those years, getting an engineering college seat was no miracle, since there were many colleges and many options.

Everyone was doing an engineering course with the aim of the getting a software job (high paying) to meet the financial demands of his/her family or to meet the aspirations of the self. But times were more difficult previously when the number of colleges were less and the seats very limited. An engineer would be a highly respected person and the engineer is for himself through the course and afterwards.

But come 2013, in the name of transparency, interaction and what not, the parents of the students have become more careful of the future of the student than the student himself. the parents are making sure that their wards have sufficient guidance and help which they have missed. The care and fear the parents now show is too much concerning.

The institutions have started to outdo each over by the extra protection and care they shower and which the government started. When the students began committing suicides for failing in subjects, instead of sensitizing the citizenry with ads and other shows that "marks are not the only things in education", it made education more easier. To make a mark, the students are forced to attend many a special classes.

Initially the parents force their wards and then Stockholm syndrome takes over and the child beings to enjoy only to generate pent up anger and frustration in future life. Now with the anti-superstition bill that the governments are competing to pass and appease some communities, the psychiatric medicine bills and imports will only increase over the period of time.

The only thing that should be part of the education is learning, marks or no marks is secondary. The focus is to become better and the evaluation criterion should be in the same direction. To make a mark the criterion at initial and final stages are diluted and then Governments spends crores on improving the research. this is the cycle to loot the taxpayers money.

Education : the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university

Evaluation : the making of a judgement about the amount, number, or value of something; assessment.

Why in education evaluation necessary? This is a serious question that needs answers.

"You Scratch My Back, I Shall Scratch Yours"

"You Scratch My Back, I Shall Scratch Yours"

The above statement is very obvious in the jungle, but when used in the day to day activities of humans it makes a lot of sense. The first time I heard the usage of this phrase in the human actions made a lot of sense. In a simpler way, it can be said "You praise me and I shall praise you", which is a barter system.  All looks fine on the surface, but like every other ordinary thing, this barter system could also be manipulated to get certain malicious results. The usage and the context is based on the user who wants to enter the barter system.

When talking in a group in general among friends, relatives, the words like thank-you, please, sorry, etc.. are not supposed to find any place. The average human has become more superficially sensitive in his talks than in his deeds. A person would tell please but not donate Rs.2 for a hungry person, because there is a beggar mafia. So much for the logic of the intelligent peoples and lost niceties. Even the niceties are reserved to the people perceived to be from the same or upper groups. the people from the lower strata are not even considered as humans.

The recent of killings of a maid by educated doctor family and many others tell us the psyche of minuscule amount of people among us. These minuscule group of people will tend to create more influence on the majority unless the majority want to change. In a fast paced world, where there is no care or love in the real sense, the hypocritical respect and love towards fellow beings many people are becoming more and more self centered. Everyone want to be the center of attraction and want to tell tales to others. The more exciting the story the more force to stay in the center.

With the constant forces trying to create imbalance, those who are at the center of a group will do everything possible to maintain the status quo, but those nearing the center are also trying even harder to get to the center. this race to the center of the social circles is creating a great churning and is making people to get identify themselves with objects more than the depth of character. A person with a lot of money can buy himself a lot of gadgets, even friends. But to to stay in the center niceties should be forced upon people.

Whether we like being scratched or not people will scratch you and expect to be scratched. The itch which needs scratching is superficial and hence the scratch will remove the fake cover of niceness over a period of time if no real meaning is found out.

In the end, we can say "You scratch my back you get Rashes" to protect ourselves.

The Doctor and the Blind Nehru Dynasty

The Gandhis who have become Prime Ministers/power centers in the Indian politics are descendants of Nehru and the surname has stuck because of Feroze Gandhi who married Indira Priyadarshani. The family’s future hopeful always remembers his Great Grand Father, Grand Mother, Father and Mother, but never is there a mention of the Grand Father. But the surname is used at all occasions to gain some kind of political mileage, but source of the surname is forgotten.

A family like a tree dies if its roots are not taken care of.  Destroy the roots, the plant is more likely to die except in some special cases, but generally this is the case. The people who have worked for Congress the original INC are supposed to be property of the Congress(Indira) and there is a ongoing fight now over the legacy of Sardar Patel. The Congress is behaving like that Congress is not part of India and those belonging to Congress donot belong to India and nobody can claim any legacy over.

Earlier Vivekananda has become rallying point for Modi for spreading awareness of the ideals of the great man. Now that Modi is using the name of Sardar to beat the Congress. Congress is the best agent to use the names and deeds of the others to take goodwill and claim credit. The media repeats over and over again that the Congress of this day is the same as the one that brought us Independence, which is very far from the truth. The alleged Father of Nation has spoke one good thing which the congress failed to implement and that is to disband the Congress. The Nehru dynasty have already had made some grand schemes for the future of this nation.

Nehru dynasty has done more harm than the British could possibly do during their occupancy. The slave elites of this nation have created a middle level people who are in turn slaves of a foreign idea of this country. But nationalist organizations like RSS are termed communal, but terrorist organizations are not given the due shame they deserve. The terrorists are decorated with names like Bihar ki beti, Fiyadeen, Naxals, Maoists,Indian Muzahideeen, etc. The many organizations religious and non-religious have been doing anti national activities, but there is no actions.

All the crimes are classified according religion and the media discourse which influences many opinions is highly biased. Only a handful or opinion generators are biased towards the truth and many are bluff masters biased against half truths. The crimes of one group are called communal violence while belonging to other groups is called as clashes and a pornographic industry works showing the grief of the victimized people. The media shows have become more like a pornographic content. The theme is the same, but the actors keep changing to make believe the content is new.

While the media continues to work its way to worship the feet of the Nehru dynasty ignoring the ground reality, the Supreme Court should take some kind of proactive action to curtail the media madness. The real citizens are taking note of the truth because of the presence of alternative information sources, but the spread of this alternate information highway is not spread enough. The Nehru Dynasty appointee believes “Muslims have the first right over the Indian resources” and Dynasty believes “Gandhi surname gives a privilege over the nation to destroy it the way Gandhi’s deem fit.”

As always there is a opposition even the best of ideals, the opposition to the Nehru dynasty allegedly called the Gandhis is increasing by the day. But the hereditary disease the Nehru dynasty suffers is from blindness as was evident from 1962 till date. The doctor has arrived who could cure the Nehrus’ the alleged Gandhis and the theatre is a not yet ready. The preparations of the major surgery are underway and this time the Nehrus’ are surely to get a permanent cure to their blindness.