EDUCATION SYSTEM- HAS IT SERVED ITS PURPOSE

The sole purpose of education is to bring out all round development of human mind and promote creativity. Since ages proponents of education advocated it as the tool to free one from all the regressive barriers and promote creativity. All the countries seem to boast about their increasing education rate time and again, but now the time has come for some introspection.

The present education system has brought us into a state where we are left with no choice but to analyze if we are heading in the right direction or not. The kind of education, our generation is having, had done more harm than benefiting us. We have lost our USP i.e. creativity, curiosity, art. In turn we are trapped in the cobweb of competitiveness, greediness and materialism. We claim to know a lot about this world despite nothing about our own mind and soul.

Can you tell your uniqueness? What differentiate you in the crowd of billions of folks out there? May be you think you can. May be you think you got the elixir of life when you swallowed those life improving books written by some great minds. May be you will try to frame your answer based on some manipulative life lessons social media posts with titles like “12 reasons you are a natural born leader” even if you don’t feel you are or '10 signs you are the most chilled out person ever.” These type of articles rather than helping us out are creating another trap for the people to lose their abilities to think. We are forced to think the way the writer wants us to think. If one wants us to be satisfied with whatever we got as there are few more deprived than us; we stop pushing ourselves to achieve more.

Now here comes the ridiculous concept of modern system when we try to measure intangible happiness in numbers. Can anyone please explain how can we measure any country’s happiness in numbers and well being in graphs? We have started to think, feel and talk in the language of numbers so that it can be understood by computers. We have already started to make babies who are genetically superior by destroying all the uniqueness so that they can fit in this education system.

All we have become is a machine with programming chip to derive action. May be one day we all start to talk in binary script in the influence of artificial intelligence by losing all our creativity and beauty. We have already become the victim of this system but we have to be sure that it does not repeat with future generations. Let them live their dream and don’t push in the never ending marathon of competitiveness. We don’t need alike thinker’s army, we need people who know the world by knowing themselves. people who are spiritually rich, morally right and harmonized with beautiful nature.

The true purpose of education is to make minds not careers.