Discussions help us open our selves to new ideas and thoughts. Thank you Vijay for your interest in what I have written. Thanks for opening my mind and keeping me on the right track.
Take notice of that list again : Line 6 : To eradicate illiteracy.
This is the website of a government run enterprise. It involves hundreds of thousands of people. It talks about efforts taken with the money of the country. And quoting lofty ideals "eradicate illiteracy"?? What have we been doing for 60 years...
It is true that blaming somebody is the easiest thing on earth. I am wrong in sitting here comfortably in my room and blabbing off everything that comes to my mind when I should take a spade in my hand and get down to the base and start working. I should not be scared of getting tired, I should not shy away from getting dirty. I should not complain against any thing. I should keep my opinions to myself, use them to better my work for change.
But I am also aware that there are several projects and endeavours that have failed because they were started when the time was not ripe. Right now, I am still a student. I have woken up to my responsibility just now. I do not know where to begin. I do not know how exactly to work. Big thoughts and aspirations do not make anything real. It is in the way that you put your most mundane thoughts into practise. It is in the way that you prepare yourself to get dirty. I am still green. I know that there are many things that I am yet to learn. That is precisely the reason why I am writing my thoughts here for the world to see and share with me. "No man is an island." I don't trust my thinking ability to have completely original thoughts. I want people to respond to what I have to say. I want people to tell me that I am wrong and prove it to me.
We have no idea of how ignorant we are. I hope you will forgive me for saying this. I mean no offence. I used to have a bad habit of assuming that things that I know everybody else of my age, around me also knows. I did not know that people are exposed to different things. They know things that I don't and don't know the things that I do. Realizing this particular thing is what prompted me to put my thoughts here so I could start a dialog. A learning process if you like.
I do not want to seem like the critic with a negative attitude towards everything. I want to roll up my sleeves and work. I want to analyse why certain things are the way they are. I do not want to enforce my ideas on anybody. Only want to discuss and learn things myself. When the time is right, when I believe that I have learnt enough to begin work and have enough resources to put into use I will begin work.
Coming back to Vijay's ideas:
1) I am not against the education system. I am against its method of implementation. I am worried that the "thinking brain" is something that we aspire to have, though we have years and years of education. We give importance to paper degrees, when these give us no practical experience. We destroy imagination and discourage any free thinking. We want our children to follow set paths. This is what is wrong.
2)Something else: Why do we tend to equate money with happiness. I wonder if you have had the pleasure of reading a book for the sake of enjoying it. I do not know if you agree with me, but the experience is great. Have you had the pleasure of having a meal with family when you have jointly cooked a meal? There are a million other such wonderful experiences that the mind opens up to when you have read well and widely. This experience I want to share with every human that lives. The cab driver that you talk of is a human being who does not realise his full capacities. He does not have the pleasure of exploring his thinking capacities. Anyway, lofty ideals from me again I guess. Sorry, I am in love with the ability of the human brain and devastated to know that half of the people in our world do not realise it completely. They would love themselves better and love the world better if they knew their own capacity.
3)Life exists outside cities. A call centre worker and cab driver exist in cities. What about thousands and millions of farmers and labourers that live in villages. Have you thought of the child in villages that wants to learn, go to school and work with bright books and pencils?Do you remember the time when some of your childhood aspirations were not fulfilled? Don't you still feel sorry for yourself? Doesn't it burn you to think that the child's wishes are not fulfilled just because there are no schools for it to go to? How about those kids who are forced to work because of the selfishness of their parents? How about parents who sell their children for money. How about children that wear rags and live on air and water? We don't live on the same plane. Don't say that. It frees you from your responsibility to these children and their innocent aspirations. I live near a slum that houses many of these children. They are so innocent. But their parents, drunk and abusive and lost in their world, do not care a paisa for these little ones. They are just completing a circle. The child knows nothing better and drinks like his father, abuses his wife when he grows up. It has no other example, you see.
I disagree with you. But its heartwarming to see that you atleast care enough to respond. Thank you for letting me clarify ( yet again).
Take notice of that list again : Line 6 : To eradicate illiteracy.
This is the website of a government run enterprise. It involves hundreds of thousands of people. It talks about efforts taken with the money of the country. And quoting lofty ideals "eradicate illiteracy"?? What have we been doing for 60 years...
It is true that blaming somebody is the easiest thing on earth. I am wrong in sitting here comfortably in my room and blabbing off everything that comes to my mind when I should take a spade in my hand and get down to the base and start working. I should not be scared of getting tired, I should not shy away from getting dirty. I should not complain against any thing. I should keep my opinions to myself, use them to better my work for change.
But I am also aware that there are several projects and endeavours that have failed because they were started when the time was not ripe. Right now, I am still a student. I have woken up to my responsibility just now. I do not know where to begin. I do not know how exactly to work. Big thoughts and aspirations do not make anything real. It is in the way that you put your most mundane thoughts into practise. It is in the way that you prepare yourself to get dirty. I am still green. I know that there are many things that I am yet to learn. That is precisely the reason why I am writing my thoughts here for the world to see and share with me. "No man is an island." I don't trust my thinking ability to have completely original thoughts. I want people to respond to what I have to say. I want people to tell me that I am wrong and prove it to me.
We have no idea of how ignorant we are. I hope you will forgive me for saying this. I mean no offence. I used to have a bad habit of assuming that things that I know everybody else of my age, around me also knows. I did not know that people are exposed to different things. They know things that I don't and don't know the things that I do. Realizing this particular thing is what prompted me to put my thoughts here so I could start a dialog. A learning process if you like.
I do not want to seem like the critic with a negative attitude towards everything. I want to roll up my sleeves and work. I want to analyse why certain things are the way they are. I do not want to enforce my ideas on anybody. Only want to discuss and learn things myself. When the time is right, when I believe that I have learnt enough to begin work and have enough resources to put into use I will begin work.
Coming back to Vijay's ideas:
1) I am not against the education system. I am against its method of implementation. I am worried that the "thinking brain" is something that we aspire to have, though we have years and years of education. We give importance to paper degrees, when these give us no practical experience. We destroy imagination and discourage any free thinking. We want our children to follow set paths. This is what is wrong.
2)Something else: Why do we tend to equate money with happiness. I wonder if you have had the pleasure of reading a book for the sake of enjoying it. I do not know if you agree with me, but the experience is great. Have you had the pleasure of having a meal with family when you have jointly cooked a meal? There are a million other such wonderful experiences that the mind opens up to when you have read well and widely. This experience I want to share with every human that lives. The cab driver that you talk of is a human being who does not realise his full capacities. He does not have the pleasure of exploring his thinking capacities. Anyway, lofty ideals from me again I guess. Sorry, I am in love with the ability of the human brain and devastated to know that half of the people in our world do not realise it completely. They would love themselves better and love the world better if they knew their own capacity.
3)Life exists outside cities. A call centre worker and cab driver exist in cities. What about thousands and millions of farmers and labourers that live in villages. Have you thought of the child in villages that wants to learn, go to school and work with bright books and pencils?Do you remember the time when some of your childhood aspirations were not fulfilled? Don't you still feel sorry for yourself? Doesn't it burn you to think that the child's wishes are not fulfilled just because there are no schools for it to go to? How about those kids who are forced to work because of the selfishness of their parents? How about parents who sell their children for money. How about children that wear rags and live on air and water? We don't live on the same plane. Don't say that. It frees you from your responsibility to these children and their innocent aspirations. I live near a slum that houses many of these children. They are so innocent. But their parents, drunk and abusive and lost in their world, do not care a paisa for these little ones. They are just completing a circle. The child knows nothing better and drinks like his father, abuses his wife when he grows up. It has no other example, you see.
I disagree with you. But its heartwarming to see that you atleast care enough to respond. Thank you for letting me clarify ( yet again).
1 comment:
#1. The cab driver cant wake up a fine morning as the best brain in the world he too is a human and ha to evolve. He learns the ins and outs of being a driver. He later earns enough to make his own busniess and he gets his kids educated immaterial of whether he is educated. I said he earns equivalent to the call center worker because he has the opportunities and the skill immaterial of whether he was educated or not.
#2. Not just India everywhere in the world trade, development, education etc etc began in some well known points or cities and the spread across. It is just a matter of time when it wud spread across to all places in India.
#3. Till ten years back India was only dependent on agriculture and debts to survive. Today it has grown to the level of lending debts and helping other countries. Had the politicians been good we cud have got this status let earlier. But a place where people are far more corrupt than the politicians nothing big and better can be expected.
Cheers!!!
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