What have we taken from education?
I am not writing the obvious things which we have got from education. The problem is I happen to see a lot of people who are termed as educated in the society but are no more than literates. The difference between literates and educated to my mind is awareness. Getting a degree ensures that you are literate. However when that literate becomes socially responsible and aware you become educated.
According to me, a graduate who litters is literate and not educated. I have seen people doing many non sense things like the one mentioned and are termed as educated by the society.
Education has given unnecessary tolerance and ignorance. How?
In a particular year there are 8 subjects and I like 3 subjects but still i need to learn the other 5 as well to clear the exam and unless you clear the exam you are assumed not to be competent in the three subjects which I like. What am I doing? I am tolerating the five subjects. When you tolerate and continue doing it a stage comes when you ignore it. In real life also we tolerate so many things and claim that we have actually accepted. This is again ignoring the difference between tolerance and acceptance. Take the example of powercuts.
Education has made us selfish. How?
In the schools we are told by teachers help others. When I actually help a student sitting next to me , he scores more than me and our system gives more importance to the progress cards than values.When I look at the progress card I say "hang on I don't get any rewards by helping others." There is no benefit in helping others and this feeling is more intense as you move higher in education ladder. One can be good by doing hard work but to be better one has to pull others down. This is what is learnt during education career and it is continued when that person goes for a job. In early 1900's people used to get educated for knowledge. Today most of the people take education to do a job. In other words the primary purpose of education is to earn and learning is ancillary.
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Good one & ur comments are good, what u have written is true, but if u think practically then this is inevitable academic wants the student to acquire a general knowledge of all subjects before they goin on for specialisation. Also competition results in that way of thinking but if u see ur grp(real friends) there is a healthy competition & they dont try to succeed by pulling others down. It happens more in corporate world cos only one person can be at Top so politics & chaploosigiri happens there...we dont live in perfect world (Its not economics to have assumption's for a theory)But i do agree with ur views.
this time i agree with ur views though not 100%.
ya regarding tolerance we are made to study things which hold zilch amt of interest...dats y our eduction system is termed to be one of the messiest in the world!
abt being selfish n pulling others down ....i reiterate ...i don't believe dat as essential for succeeding! y ppl are driven towards money becoz nowadays education has become costly! u c everything is interdependent!
ya people r driven towards money because it is interdependent
tell me in a course like CA how many do it for knowledge I mean does any CA tell u i want to learn.
We look at the package one gets. I hope CA is not costly
not entirely true.
Consider people doing IAS etc. and serving country.
I have done my MTech from IIT Bombay and I am extremely proud of it. I have decided not to settle abroad. I love my country and I am proud of it. If I get chance, I'll start some company of my own and will take over a company in US. May be .. thinking too high .. but why not aim big ? That is also obtained from my educational background.
Apart from that, I still have lot of respect to my school. I have donated my first salary to my school.
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