Education - Dignity of labour

The education industry has been growing by leaps and bounds until two years ago when the new Engineering Colleges have failed to get started. The slump in the growth of Engineering colleges is a indication of a deep seated problem in the Education system that is being followed in our country. The children are pushed into the school at a very early age for a variety of reasons.

In urban areas the double income families cannot afford with single income and those who cannot afford a nanny(grandmother/father) are forced to send their toddlers to some play school in the hope of intellectual growth. A number of games and activity based learning methodologies are developed based on the study of low intelligent beings like chimpanzees and other apes. the games are good amount or fun and also some burden on the finances but have become inevitable. 

Once the child graduates from play school to kinder garden, the projects and creative assignments are forced so much so that, the parents have to do the most of the work for the happiness of their children. In an age when every effort or deed is measured in numerals, the usefulness of the curriculum of the children is not seen, but the greed for more hippocratic nature is highly appreciated. The need to be more different from the usual rest is highly visible. Every pressure tactic that is employed on children right from the kinder garden till they finish their high school results in deep seated frustration.

The demand for being first or in the top slots in the school/college is the most a fetish that many parents have developed. Since there can be only one top slot, many new avenues are being created so that many students can come in the top slot in one form or another. The numerical value is also not calculated by the great parents who would squeeze their customers for non-value addition works and ask for a better value addition jobs so that they can take better pay packets only to spend on more non value added items.

Many parents believe that there is no hope for children who donot do good in education. The loss of dignity of labour is the reason for the many of the ills that we are facing in the education system. Everyone talks about non availability of the labour for doing some kinds of small repair works and the parents would not like their children take up class to do the not so dignified works for loss of face in front of their peers. This fake peer pressure is more or less self made, but we crave for peer acceptance more than we believe.

The no dignity for jobs other than that pay in salary accounts in several tens of thousands of rupees per month are presumed to real jobs and others are all assumed to be worthless only if present in India.