Education system in India really sucks

Ever since I remember I used to hate going to school, going to college, my teachers, my lecturers, exams and anything remotely associated with education including school buses. And that I think is because the education system is primarily designed to make one feel a painful pressure of performance and a complete loss of freedom. I don’t know about now but when I was a student, both parents and teachers would emphasise on attaining a first class or a distinction. That pressure in turn gave way to an increase in malpractices such as copying and trying to question paper leaks. And in the whole process, no one remembered to tell us, that the actual purpose of education is to get educated. Education, in the truest sense of the term, is not about getting marks. Marks test the education quotient and education is about enriching oneself with knowledge and analytical power. I did four years of civil engineering and by the time I passed with the bare minimum marks and got a job in the construction of Taj Krishna as a site engineer, I didn’t even know fundamental basics as the ratio of cement concrete mixture. That’s because I managed to get my certificate by copying, learning by heart and muska maroing my lecturers etc.

Yes, I know that as an ultra-bad student I could set a bad example in this context but nevertheless, I wish the education system had a side to it which educated us students on the futility of copying, learning by heart and muska maroing etc. They never did that and instead only had measures like debarring and suspending as acts of punishment. So bad students like me were always looking to work a way around the punishments and use all kinds of devious methods to get the so-called minimum percentage that our elders were demanding.

In this regard, in spite of me confessing that I am myself uneducated, I think the education system itself is uneducated. It’s inability to educate me on the definition and purpose of education is what left me uneducated. But on the other hand, if the education system was educated enough to educate me then I would never have become a filmmaker. I say this because since I chose to only do malpractices to get through my exams, I used the rest of my time to watch movies to sharpen my movie making skills while other students wasted their time getting educated. I say they wasted their time because the uneducated me turned out to be more successful than all the educated ones in my class. For this success, I sincerely want to thank the uneducated education system.

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