education. Right.

Every day I go to school, I begin to feel more and more that our education system is thoroughly redundant and past its usefulness. While the rest of the world embraces holistic education and all round performance, our system still focusses entirely on academic performance, and nothing else. Despite efforts(however lame they may be) to convince us otherwise, I as a student, can say that I am not in the least bit fooled. Everybody talks about the great Indian engineers and how hardworking they are. In our euphoria over this praise, we have conveniently overlooked all the other reputations wonderful Indian engineers posess. Right now, what we have is a society full of worker bees, with no pioneers to take us forward. Probably because we have no infrastructure to promote brilliance. Back here(yes,I intended to say 'back' here) difference is a bad word. Any student who is different is either dysfunctional or mad. By the time, a brilliant person passes out of school, he has been convinced that he's a lunatic and should stay home and never come out, or he manages to stifle himself to fit into society. Why should he be forced to do that? Indian engineers, are nothing but logs of wood for the mncs, they're equivalent to cheap natural resources, all the same, all equally efficient. Just like little robots. There are scores of people around who know the periodic table by heart, but don't know how to catch buses, or cook food, or even wash their own clothes. Why do you need to do well in school? To get admission in a good college. Why do you need to get into a good college? To earn money.The only reason we go to school and college now is to earn money, not to learn.

I just got off the phone with one of my friends who was in tears because she got shouted at by her tution teacher. Who the hell is a tution teacher? Why should we even need people like that?Why can't our system have the ability to educate us without the help of others? Why should people like that be given the chance to make us cry? I know what you're thinking,'what's wrong with this disrespectful little shit? How can he insult teachers like this?' Let me remind you, that I'm talking only about tution teachers here. School is the institution we put our trust in have faith in to deliver to us knowledge. Going to a tution teacher, is a proclamation of distrust in the school's ability to do its job, to give us knowledge. Our tution teachers aren't our real teachers, they're crutches to help us cope with the incompetence of our school teachers.

More than fifty-years back, we got our independence from the British, but to this date, the last vestige of our colonisation still remains. Our education system. England abandoned this system ages back, its only we, us innocent Indians, who are left with a decrepit and dysfunctional educational system. Why is it that there are so few Indian nobel laureates?(six, to be precise, and mother Teresa was educated in Macedonia) Because we're never taught to think of anything absent in our text books. No place for imagination, no room for vision. The CBSE is like a factory, churning out cheaply made BUT efficient robots that do whatever you tell them to, well. Nothing more,nothing less.