SOS

What kind of educational systems are we promoting in our country?! Why do we want to downgrade humans into animals or, worse, machines? Sri Chaitanya, Narayana, Vikas, etc ... names every student in AP shudders at the mention of. The idea is to treat children like cattle. Tell them exactly what path to go down and if they happen to wander a step flog them! I call it the ‘Slog or Flog’ methodology. What kind of schools still advocate physical punishments? Beating up adolescents with steel rulers to the extent of drawing blood for not being able to score well in an exam? What problems is this solving? It not only breaks the child being beaten up but the psychological disturbance that it causes in the rest of the students for having to stand by helplessly and watch their friends being beaten up, because apparently they signed up for this. You’ll never get to an IIT or even your local engineering college if you don’t subject yourself to it.

Girls and boys separated into different sections, classes from seven to seven in dingy old apartments in the middle of the city, with zero facilities for recreation or any other form of personal development like sports, art etc. All answers must be verbatim from the college provided text book, No, you are not even allowed to correct the grammar. We don’t care about your approach as long as your answer is correct. Why did you add those points in your environmental chemistry paper! They are wrong as they are not in the textbook. We talk about farmers committing suicides in Andhra. Has anybody done an audit of how many students hang themselves out of despair and stress every year? (If such a survey has been done, do point it out to me.)

All this for what? To become another cog in the machine? To become another Software engineer or tester? To do a ‘low end’ job for your counterparts in other countries? By supporting such an education system we condemn them to servitude.

Wake up parents! Wake up Governments! Wake up media, talk more about the state of education in India than just stories of molestation in UP. The molester btw is a product of this educational system. If we continue to churn out bricks like this IITs will never become the top engineering in the world, IIMs will never become the top management schools. Creativity, innovativeness, observation, morality (In the sense of being able to decide for themselves, what is right and wrong) are more important than MARKS in any exam. Develop a questioning mind not and dead conforming one! First hand knowledge of experience instead of second hand from books.

Save your souls and those of your children.

The Genesis of Butterflies

by: Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

HE dawn is smiling on the dew that covers

That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings

In jasmine bloom, and privet, of white wings,

That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide,

With muffled music, murmured far and wide.

Ah, the Spring time, when we think of all the lays

That dreamy lovers send to dreamy mays,

Of the fond hearts within a billet bound,

Of all the soft silk paper that pens wound,

The messages of love that mortals write

Filled with intoxication of delight,

Written in April and before the May time

Shredded and flown, playthings for the wind's playtime,

We dream that all white butterflies above,

Who seek through clouds or waters souls to love,

And leave their lady mistress in despair,

To flit to flowers, as kinder and more fair,

Are but torn love-letters, that through the skies

Flutter, and float, and change to butterflies.

This English translation of "The Genesis of Butterflies" was composed by Andrew Lang (1844-1912).