An Education
Warning: This post may contain inflammatory statements due to the writer's passionate and er generally 'pissed-off' feelings on the subject.
Everyone raves about the education system in India and how smart Indians are. Personally, I think we need some SERIOUS changes around here. Kids are trained from childhood to compete, get 'good' marks and top. (Do you know that kindergarten fees are skyrocketing to crazy amounts like 1 lac? I also read something about toddlers listening to Beethoven and stuff. ).But, I'm telling you, from what I've seen, the education system is all about only one thing.
MONEY.
People lose their childhood because first they are studying and taking tuitions to top in 10th, then for 12th, then a fancy engineering college(oh yeah, you know which one I'm talking about) or whatever. In fact, as most of us know, the training starts from 8th grade to get into a coaching center after 10th grade which will then train you to get into above-mentioned fancy engineering college. There are so many supposedly 'great' coaching centers around, promising excellent results. They're more like torture chambers. Mental torture, that is.
Assignments.
Unit test.
Some other God-forsaken test.
Some more assignments.
Class tests.
Oh, look! Another test!
How about some fun? Hell, no! Write another test.
Sports? What's that?
Jesus. It's like a nut-farm. They're all obsessed.
Arre sab first aayenge kya??
All these institutes have but one goal. Show better results, and therefore make more money.
They're like factories which want to make zombies out of us. All the same. All toppers.
It's the same in college. They only teach you how to pass exams. Knowledge, who needs it? Read whatever is enough for the exam. What's alarming is I'm starting to think that way too. And that's how I am a 2nd year BTech student with not much knowledge in my subject and not much drive to learn either. Because when learning is all about text books with their unintelligible babble, who's interested? We mug, we remember for 24 hours, write the exam and forget.
I wish we could get a real education. Not the bookish sort, the kind which makes us grow as people, not only in mugging capacity. More of practical stuff, less tests, less pressure, no endless boredom.
I wish I had done so many things I never did. I wish I had not been so obsessed about topping all the time. I wish I had evaluated my options and figured out what I wanted instead of blindly jumping on the IIT bandwagon(which anyway was a huge failure). I wish I had spent more time having fun and going out(not like I studied but still.) I wish people would make more movies like 3 idiots so the next Gen kids don't get enrolled in the robot factories.
I am going to stop now because I am THIS close to quoting 'Give me some sunshine' from 3 idiots.
All I'm saying is, this sucks. We should be able to have fun while we're young. The system needs a HUGE makeover. Degrees right now are meaningless. Everybody gets one. It's not at all hard. The point is what knowledge will we have at the end of this charade? I guess the joke's on me. Study all your life and you're still no closer to being knowledgeable. I should have woken up sooner.
Ah whatever, like I said, it just sucks. Who's going to give me my teenage years back? Supposedly the best time of one's life, mine was spent in a rat race for a piece of cheese which wasn't enough to feed even 1/10th of the rats. From now on, no freaking out much over exams and grades and stuff.
I am SO over it.
*blows a raspberry*
Movies, books, friends, fun, life.
It is time to LIVE!
p.s. I should change the blog name to The disconnected ramblings of a confused, lost, disgruntled, and moody soul. :|
