Is Education the Culprit???

"Every scientist researched and worked on one or two topics in their whole lives and came up with some results and new theories but it's me at last who has to sit and learn all of them. Each king and emperor might not be knowing about his family history so well as I do and I have to memorise the dates of birth, death, the battles they faught, and so on for each one of them. Why? This is not done. What do they suppose are we? Computers; that they'll feed as much data as they wish to!"
This is perhaps what most of the students feel at the night before their exams. So many authors and poets in English & Hindi, so many kings and queens and hundreds of other people in history, so many scientists in science and together with each of them comes their life history, their discoveries and inventions, their family tree, the places related to them and still worse the dates. All this may sound a bit funny to some but this is exactly what the present trend of education in India is all about. The bitter truth is that education of the present time has lost its main objective of disciplining the mind and the body and instead has become extremely burdensome and stressful for most and a business for others. All of us have come across advertisements from coaching centres quoating misleading sentences like 'Guarantee for a better future' and so on. It'll not be wrong to say that education today has become the greatest business; a business that extracts not just huge amounts of money but plays with people's believes and emotions. What people think about the most today is studies, studies and some more studies. No! please don't get mistaken over here! Nobody wants to study for the sake of learning; it's just that everybody wants to be on the top, which in any way is impossible. Students on an average spend six hours in school and then again there's this private tution trend with side books. They are engaging themselves into lots of unhealthy competitions and comparisons and parents too are involved in it. Career concers surrounds people's thought and they have forgotten to live their present. With such unhealthy trends all around, people are bond to be infected by them and advising people not to take tension is like hoping for someone not to die after poisoning him . The problem needs to be tackeled at root level rather than just doing some shafting works for it's never going to solve the problem. Look at the children today and you'll find that the colours of the carefree and joyous days of childhood are rapidly fading away. Children are being admitted much earlier in schools and the tension has already begun in them for when they laugh now it isn't genuine. Is this what education meant for? Ofcourse Not!
If one sits down to find faults in the present system of education he'll surely find numerous. But this isn't what exactly I'm trying to do. All I'm trying do is to point out the things which aren't worthy enough to be taught and which need to be removed from it in order to make learning fun and not oppressive. The system of education needs to undergo some necesssary reforms and things which are meaningful from the practical point of view should only be included in the course. Students should better be taught technological skills which they can implement in their lives for a better future instead of making them memorise unfruitful facts from the pages of history. More stress should be layed upon inculcating strong moral values in young minds for these are the things which matter more than anything in the world. Practical thinking should be promoted among students and the entire system should be made more flexible as per the interest level and psycological demands of different students instead of merely following the rigid and unlucid traditional way of education because everything has to change with time. As for people, they need to realise that doing what we are actually made for is far more important than any tradition or trend because we get our life just once and that too is short, too short. All this leads us to ask a simple question- Is education the real culprit or is it we who are making it so harsh and unlucid? I guess all of us know the answer.
So come out of the trap, recognize your talents and start living your life...enjoy it...and make the world a happier place to live!!!