The DECEITFUL CERTITUDE inside SCHOOLS and COLLEGES

KEEPING AWAY from the BEATEN PATH

The SENSELESS SQUANDERING of PRECIOUS TIME and RESOURCES

WOULD the KIDS REPLACE the ADULTS at WORKPLACES?

WHEN the GOVERNMENT should STEP IN

The DECEITFUL CERTITUDE inside SCHOOLS and COLLEGES

Now, what is the mentality in a school and college going student? Well, they are not much bothered about the future or about improving their skills in anything. All that they are focused upon is marks. What can one do with marks? Well, one can’t actually make even a pillow with it.

Children in formal schooling and college studies simply waste their time with a false sense of security. The general feeling is that there is a pot of gold at the far end of the rainbow. The fact is that there is no such pot of gold at the far end of the mirage. For most people, at the end of their formal education, they do not know what to do with all the bookish knowledge that they had received. Most of them have to go in for extra studies to make themselves work worthy and business worthy. Here it may be mentioned that for individuals who have an innate inclination entrepreneurship, formal education is a total misguidance. There is absolutely no connection between a 17 to 20 years formal education and entrepreneurship.

However a lot of jobs are reserved for them. That much assurance is there for them. For a person without formal qualifications cannot compete with them. He or she is a lower caste as far as right to compete with them is concerned. {It may be remembered that in the ancient periods in India, the lower castes were barred from competing with the higher castes in any sort of competitions. In fact, in the Indian epic, Mahabharatha, there is this incident wherein Karna is not allowed to compete against Arjuna, as the latter was from a royal blood, while the former was known to be from a lower caste}. The fact is that if the government posts are opened for competition in the Public Service Exams, for the non-formally educated also, the real value of this so-called formal education can be seen.

KEEPING AWAY from the BEATEN PATH

Beyond that, from my own daughter’s experience, I have to say this much also. It is an experience connected to Indian schooling. An individual who was quite active in outdoor activities including swimming, suddenly went into a routine of 1½ hours bus travel in the morning and 1½ hours bus travel in the evening; 6 days a week of 8 hours in the classroom; all extra time writing notes and projects; no time for any physical activity; listening to teachers with literally bad English pronunciation, and accent, bare travel experience and much more. No more swimming, chess, football, cricket, computer work, creative writing and much else. Simply study the same things that around 700000 people from this small state alone are studying. That is, she was studying themes in which there was an abundance of people also competing. She was not allowed to go on a different route. This much I mentioned not because of any personal issues, but just to mention the case of the odd one outs in this nation, who try to keep off the beaten path, and try to go in a different direction, making a new path.}

The SENSELESS SQUANDERING of PRECIOUS TIME and RESOURCES

However in the case of nations like the US, the huge number of youngsters simply spend fastidious lives, with no concern about the future, and see the world from the false security of the classrooms. Many of them would have enough spare time and boredom to try out drugs, alcohol and sexual activities. In fact, the nation of US is living on the bank balance of a grand heritage, simply squandering away that splendid legacy. One super-nut American president went around speaking to children in classroom advising them to spruce up their maths knowledge, instead of seeing that he was leading the nation to absolute financial disaster, by not closing the leaks in the American economy. It is not Maths knowledge that is going to protect a nation and its economy.

WOULD the KIDS REPLACE the ADULTS at WORKPLACES?

Now, one needs to take up the economic affect of children doing work. There is this grave issue that adults would find themselves facing competition from youngsters. Well, this would be there to a limited extent. This was also a competition that adult males faced with females started joining the workforce. However, in the case of nations like the US etc., there native adult work force is as it is facing stiff competition from immigrant workers and also from outsourcing. When such terribly destructive things can be allowed, putting a restrain on children working can really be of laughable content.

CREATING QUALITY

There is one more last item to be added here. It is generally connected to an erroneous and totally un-understood theme of US being a great nation due to its scientific achievements. It is not true. The US is not a great nation due to its scientific achievements, or of it being able to send man to the moon or land on the Mars. It is a great nation due to the quality of its people, who speak English in a form more or less quite near to that of pristine English of England. For that matter, miniscule England is also a great nation, without being able to put man on the moon or land on Mars. In fact, England is a greater nation that the US.

To make a nation great, what is require is people quality improvement. This does not come with creating more engineers, doctors and scientists, but by improving the quality of all persons.

WHEN the GOVERNMENT should STEP IN

The government has the duty to step in if there is exploitation and despoiling. If the government does not step in, that is a great crime. In this context, the right of a person against be despoiled by lower indicant feudal words in Indian languages would come in. The government has the duty to abolish such words, and not the decent labour a child would like to do. However, would the government dare to say that certain Malayalam (Indian) words have to be abolished, as it was done in Post Revolution France?

Last, there is nothing wrong in people studying the universe, stars, supernova, big bang, and such things, and discussing whether Pluto needs to be plutoed or not, and reverted back to planet-hood. Higgs-bosonian particles also can be studied. However, a huge mass of youngsters need not be forced to stay focused on such things. Also for communicating with aliens. For, some people are needed to focus on such ordinary themes as finding a way to communicate with the immensity of living beings currently living alongside human beings. And for other frill knowledge, that really do run the world of human affairs, without the truculence of academic interferences.

As to England, let it learn from its historical experiences that it is not by enslaving a huge section of its young population inside schools that the nation went to global greatness.

There are some more things to be mentioned. I will do it later.