Sunday, 12 March 2017

We want our playgrounds !

The Indians system of education was respected all over the world , once upon a time ! Educationists , Doctors , Engineers , Economists & so many others from various disciplines from India who went and settled abroad made a name for themselves and also made the country proud . We had some premiere institutions in India from where , when the students graduated or post graduated , they were considered the creme de la creme and companies and countries all over the world never gave a second thought to employing them . What went wrong ? The ever increasing population , hence the competition probably made the people loose faith in the good old schools . More and more people took their children out of the schools and put them in competition tutorials who mushroomed like anything in the past few years . In doing so , the parents only concentrated on getting their child into a professional college but they did not realise that they killed the child in that child . Robots were borne who were programmed to study -eat -study - eat -sleep . Repeat cycle! Play grounds were removed from their lives . Even the schools found them useless , found a better option , make more classrooms , bring in more robots hence more money . The schools where the children not only learnt their 3 R's , but learnt sports & sportsman spirit , music & culture , dramatics & debating , making  friends &  enemies and making friends out of enemies , all went into redundancy . Now we have these tutorials who produce competitors . They teach our children that the other student next to him is his competitor and he is supposed to score more than him , otherwise his section will be changed to an inferior one ..... result .... no friendship , mental stress , insomnia , hypertension , diabetes . But the child somehow makes it to a professional college . Ends have justified the means !
Now, I would be scared to be treated by a doctor who has no heart . I wont want an architect to design my home if he has no human feelings  . Why has the governance and administration stood aside as a silent spectator or should I say behind the curtain prompter ? Has the situation gone beyond redemption . Can't we all stand up and shout that we want our Playgrounds , Music classes , Hobby classes ..... we want to make friends for life !

2 comments:

  1. Absolutely nailed it collective action not awareness can still salvage it before it's beyond redemption .

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