Diagnosis of the "Disease"

(Please make sure you have read the previous post before reading this one)

1. Lack of discipline although not an enforced trait by the education, it is only because there is a lack of discipline training in the education curriculum.

2.Fascination of foreign things and Ability to do only as taught - are a direct result of the British education policy for the Indians.That was the prime goal of their education system.

3. Inability to judge relevance of present conventions is the result of Destruction of the "capability of original thought". The "cramming" method of education followed in our schools serves the purpose of destroying the ability of original thinking. The questions are given; the answers are taught. "THIS" is the method, "THIS" is where it is to be used. In this process there is no scope for original thinking on the students part. There is no scope for the students own contribution.

4. Thinking in rigid categories is also a result of the same thing. Our education system turns people into "the proverbial carriage horse with blinds".When all the answers are given to you and you are to answer only as taught, you start to think in categories. I do not need to elaborate or justify this any further. Just look around you and everywhere you will find this phenomenon.

5. Short sightedness goes in sync with inability to judge relevance of present conventions.Status quo status quo - fear of change, resistance to change,"Crisp" logic all contribute to create short-sightedness.

6. Fear of change and Resistance to change is the result of not knowing the boundaries and limitaions of everything that has been taught. In school or college, students are given a fixed framework and they have to work within that framework. They are not told what the boundaries are or why they are there. They are taught the techniques and the problems which can be solved using them .But the boundaries of applicability of those techniques is not taught properly to them. In other words, students do not have "Knowledge of Structure". They only know facts and techniques and where they have to be applied. They do not know where "else" they can be applied or where they "cannot" be applied.

7. The "chalta hai" attitude or indifference I think is the result of Destruction of Fascination of students about any subject. No matter how interesting a subject is, when it comes into academics, it loses its juice and becomes drab. This is true whether it is at school level or college level.All subjects irrespective of their potential for arousing interest become the same for students.The format for teaching them is the same - Questions and Answers supposed to be memorized. All subjects turn into a memory game with little or no scope for self-expression. Isn't that obvious? When there is no scope for you - the learner to express your views about the subject how can the fascination remain? And then all subjects start to appear the same.

8. False sense of tolerance is a degenerate effect of the "chalta hai" indifferent attitude.

9. The "I am superior, you are inferior" attitude is a grand legacy left by the British Raj. The British have psychologically ruled - no,owned Indians for 200 years and continue to do so. The slave mindset has not disappeared yet. Every person wants to dominate the other at the next opportunity. People want to take the role of the Sahib and bask in the feeling of superiority and get respect and all that comes along with it rather than enjoying equality and a mutual feeling of respect.When people rise high in the hierarchy they start dominating their juniors. There is a kind of superiority barrier between professors and students in India. Elsewhere professors treat students like friends and there is no communication barrier.

Most common thing is that Security personnel start abusing their powers. They take shots at their "subjects" and harass them whenever they wish to. They show supreme distrust towards the employees of that particular organisation as if they are the champions of the security of the organization and the employees are only there to breach it! Now we need to recognize the fact that "Trust" is the basis of any "organization". Otherwise we might as well ask what guarantee do we have that the armed security guards holding rifles will not shoot us in the head if they wish to. Nobody can give such a guarantee.No amount of paperwork will do that. No one can vouch for someone else. Do you see what I am trying to say?

All the so called leaders are addressed as Honorable so-and-so. One thing that often comes to my mind is this apparent projection that the ruler is a superior "being" as compared to his subjects. Aren't common people honorable? Aren't people distinguished in different fields like renowned scientists or singers honorable? By all means, leaders of the people are meant to serve the people and are supposed to be more humble than the people. I might be sounding utopic but the point I am trying to make is that this is precisely the legacy of the Raj. The elected representatives of the people are professionals just like any other professionals. Even if they are "ruling" the country or dispensing their duties they are by no means beings belonging to a "Higher Realm." This was the modus operandi of the British - to project an image of superiority of rulers over their subjects. This image was carefully preserved by them. And now we are doing the same!

10. I do not know from where Cynicism, Hypocricy and Difficulty to learn new things came from.

It seems that cynicism is widely observed among atheists.This education system has also succeeded in creating atheists who are aloof from any sort of religious beliefs. That was one more objective of the Macaulayian education system - To make sure that all idol worshipping is annihilated. Lord Macaulay stated that if proceeded according to his vision, in just 30 years there shall be no idolators left among the Indians. Read his statement in Wikipedia.

Here, I am not trying to argue in favour or against atheism. I am only trying to present my observations as they are. I just cant stop being amazed by Lord Macaulay's vision and its astounding success rate.

( Now dont start saying "yeah yeah, these things can be found universally. Its all the same. So whats new?" Some of them are indeed unique to Indians. And even if we know that others are erring and we are also erring in the same way, it is not the case that we are NO WORSE than them; it means we are GREATER fools!)

But overall , I call their generation as the "Bully" generation. They might have suffered a lot in olden days but they do not feel that the chain should stop with them. They want to continue with the same trend. For those who might not know - a Bully is a person who tries to dominate and harass others as a means of overcoming his own Insecurity which is the result of his facing atrocities and pain in his childhood, inflicted by someone else. It is that game of Kho-Kho which is observed in the convention of Ragging of juniors.

But I must say one thing. This same system has turned our generation into smart, fast, learning machines. But ironically - Machines lacking the "Knowledge of Structure". Machines lacking "Application-oriented" training. Machines working more in the theoretical domain rather than practical.

Therefore, Apropos the popular (junky) punchline - I was born intelligent but education ruined me!

The main thing to be conveyed is that this education system was never meant to do good. It wasn't meant to empower or to impart wisdom. It is just an assembly line for creating Instruments of control and propogation of British ideology. And that it has achieved with immaculate precision. It has created the educated Indian elite who takes pride in English education; carries a feeling of superiority over vernacular medium people; who despises core Indian beliefs and requires a stamp of authenticity from the west over anything Indian to make it worthy of being followed. Take Yoga for example.

And I reckon what consequently happened is that the intellectual demolition and automatisation served well when there was a guiding force of the British intellect. They wanted intellectual slaves to implement the British Raj decisions. Now that they are gone, there is nothing to guide the slave's energies. Therefore the slaves have now sunken deep into the quicksand of their own ignorance. All their own human negative tendencies have taken over the driving force of their decision making faculties or rather the lack of it. And the result can be seen EveryWhere (and EveryWhen) in our country!

And accordingly no changes are being made in the education system (..as per the guiding principles of Ignorance). Our intellectual roots where chopped off when we were conditioned by the system and we continue to do so to the next generations to come!

Shouldn't this 'Matrix' be shut down (...and revamped offcourse! ) before every single person is converted into 'Agent Smith'? What say?!