Education, means or end…

 

So many times I am surprised by the reaction of the educated lot in my social circle and so many times I get disgusted with the same…

In our society and so many others which I have read about, education has now comes to be an end to earn more… yes, I too believe that education is essential to good earning but I seriously don’t believe in the fact that it is an end… I believe that education is a means to achieve so many more things in life (of-course, the earnings is just a small part…)

Education in our society is so much concentrated on the earnings aspect that the basic essentials are forgotten easily… No matter people earn these higher degrees to show that they are more educated than the few others, but they don’t show the attitude or mental state of a more educated person… So much so that it has forced me to go back and ask myself that is is the same kind of education I would allow myself, my family members or my next generation to go through…

But alas, world is not governed by what is right or wrong (infact, as the saying goes there is no right or wrong), but what is public perception… If this remains to be the course which our society or the others take in future, the human civilization would come to a standstill in terms of understanding, mental growth and will only grow in population…

After all the eternal question of what is life? still remains answers and we have billions of years to go before we find an answer…

US, VISA, Indian Mentality

Recently visiting the US embassy for the VISA opened my eyes to the Indian Mentality.

We as a nation, as a culture, may be rich or poor… but we have that inherent, inbuilt mental state to appease anyone and everyone who has whiter flesh then ours… It is surprising to note that we could stoop to levels lower than we knew existed to get a US VISA.

It is really disheartening to note that people queuing up for the US VISA are treated (and they allow themselves to be treated this way!!!) like insects by the US embassy officials, often shouting that even one mistake can cost them “life imprisonment” in “INDIA”. So much we have this innate desire to go to US, that we not only allow ourselves to be humiliated, we brag about this too…

Although, I have to travel on official purpose, and I wasn’t the one who was hassled with, there were few who had to answer questions about their marriage which took place 25-30 years back… It is disappointment to a RACE, in a COUNTRY which boasts of innumerable greats… And to add to this insult we have these so called states and communities which measure a person on the basis of his visits to any country… I am not critical of US as such, as they are doing what any countrymen should do… taking pride in their country, making it look like the best in the world (however, the crime rate may be highest there, the % of unemployed people not good either and so on…), but I am disgusted with the Indians (my own country men) who believe that US (or any other European Country) is the best thing that has happened to them…

I am more disgusted and disappointed with the “so called” educated lot that harbors this mentality of visiting/working for/in the US as their ultimate success criteria….

With this mentality in mind, the INDIA that many had hoped for and believed in is long DEAD!!