The post below was meant to be a reply to the post in the blog THOUGHTS AT MY DESK. I thought it to be suitable to be posted here.
To give a general idea: the blogger conducted a small survey. As a result he found out that people of younger age groups were much ignorant about the basic facts near home, even as simple as famous cities neighboring India. The blogger went on lamenting the outcome.
It is true and tragic that we have neglected our neighbors for our vision of distant dream of USA and EU.
Furthering his concerns I would like to put the blame on the government and in turn society. WE ARE, as in present day, CULTIVATED AS CASH CROPS that can be traded for some western currency that will boost our economy a little, but we neglect the long term loss.
Our education system is a money eccentric one, training us to serve (or better sell) best for the purpose we are harvested for. If you are an IT Engineer you do not know anything about any other field, similarly for mechanical, etc. and why just engineers, even doctors, artists, physicists, etc. You are made known only that much that will add to your selling price (SP) and nothing that will add as a value to you.
Even in our homes, when you are a student and if you also like playing music, you will be discouraged to opt for it, even as a hobby, as that will waste your time. It is just that it adds value to you as a human being instead of as crops, while society intends othrwise. If you are not a professional photographer, you shall not pursue it as a hobby.
Now coming to our formal education system, if anything that does not add value to you in terms of your SP, it is worthless to be taught. We can see that very few know about the contributions of eminent as JC Bose, Raman, etc. as it is not required to know. Even it is being taught by NCERT that SARI was brought in India by HELENA, and we wholeheartedly accept the name ADAM’s bridge to bridge between India and Sri Lanka. It may be so because we need only such information to increase our SP. WHAT WE ARE TAUGHT AS MYTHOLOGY, EVEN IN COUNTRIES AS SRI LANKA IT IS TAUGHT AS HISTORY!
We are hence cultivated and harvested as per the market demand. We are not treated as humans, the innovative human is murdered in his childhood and later on we are trafficked in the market, at the cost of development of our nation, and above all at the cost of our individuality, our humanity. And the irony is we cry for Human Rights, while we are snatching it from the very first year of a child’s life. We mutate man to machine, and when some mechanical machine beat our cultivated breed of human machines and snatch our jobs, we cry for justice. How can anyone on earth help an outdated machine? We can help human, animals, but not an outdated machine, it is its fate to get replaced and dumped.
Now even in the survey he conducted, all the subjects (true, they are anything but human, being churned off their JUICE by some multinational firms to be left as junk in the last) were well placed, and yet they are ignorant of such basic facts as the famous cities in neighborhood. They all are of same creed, as rice, may be of different species, but in similar profession having same basic background of academics, etc.
Had your group been of people from different areas of work and interests and were they left humans by the society by the time they grow up, result would have been different. You, in IT co. must know west well, a doctor or a miner may know rural area and so on. We could have shared our knowledge for common good, for development of the nation, for society and above all humanity.
Had we been spared human, and had we been allowed to pursue the course we liked, had the courses been inter related in such a fashion as to promote symbiosis, had been …..but ALAS……
