From my childhood, I am listening these words ‘padhne likhne se aadmi samajhdaar banta hai’ But after so many years I am not sure about this line. Let me tell you my own experience which i have encountered over the years. I am talking about education as a general word not related to professional or higher education.
I have a mindset that education teaches us behaving with manner; education can distinguishes yourself with uneducated people. Though it’s true that education brings a lot of change in terms of earning, social status, thinking. But when I walk across the road, I have realised that in our normal daily routine life, education is not a distinguishing factor.
Those who have travelled by air (domestic), they will probably appreciate my observation. The moment aircraft lends at the air strip, passenger loosens their seat belts, open the cabin box to take out their luggage and stand in the queue (including me). They will stand in the queue for next 10 minutes because it will take some time to park the plane in parking bay and then stairs will come in next few minutes. And the scene inside the aircraft become so chaotic, you can’t say these people are highly educated and professional persons. In my opinion it will take same time if you keep sitting in your seats and disembark one by one. But one passenger will start initially and soon everybody will follow it.
I am from Rajasthan and so I know how precious water is. During my engineering days and now in B-school, people are not different. I have seen many people wasting water while brushing and shaving. Despite advertising on TV and other medium regarding efficient use of water, people show irresponsibility. Same can be seen in terms of usage of electricity. In offices because one doesn’t need to pay the electricity charges so they don’t take care of electricity that when they are not in the room switch off some lights. College hostels, Government accommodation (where light charges are fixed) have same kind of problem. If same set of people including me live in some private apartments where they have to pay the bill they will use electricity as precious commodity. Why such kind of differences in their approaches is out of my understanding.
I have also seen people travelling in big car, throw waste out of car’s window and many more examples we can find in daily routine which you will not expect from educated person.
Your comments will be appreciated, please tell me whether I am right or wrong.
hey gaurav, good observations ... but i am not pretty sure whether we can directly correlate these observations with education. personally i feel that it is not the formal education that teaches all of these to us. i feel that these things should be inculcated right from the childhood, and the onus lies on our parents. i am not saying that parents dont teach us all these things, i am saying just teaching a kid "don't waste water" wont do...a kid should also be taught "why we shouldn't waste water" ... so that a sense of responsibility sets in. once this is done all pieces fall into place. but still i couldn't figure out how formal education is directly related to this (though is indirectly).
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वैसे भारत का आदमी बस किताब पढा लिखा ही है ये सब संस्कार सीखने में अभी बरसों लगेंगे
अमेरिका की तरह पांच दिन का सप्ताह चाहिए पर
पांच दिन में काम कैसे करते हैं तुमसे छुपा नहीं है। दस बजे के आफिस में ग्यारह बजे आते हैं। फिर गपशप और फिर थोडा सा काम किया किया और लंच की तैयारी
और फिर लौटे नहीं कि भागने की तैयारी।
यही तो वो आदतें हैं जो इंडिया को आगे नहीं बढने देतीं।
शिक्षा अंतर जरूर पैदा करती है पर माहोल का भी प्रभाव होता है ..सही है की हम हिदुस्तानी कुछ काम मे जल्दी करते है और कुछ काम सही तरीके से नहीं करते है , पर राजीव ये गलतिया भारत पर इंडिया के बढ़ते प्रभाव का नतीजा ही है ,वर्ना भारत का नागरिक आज भी संस्कारित है .
ReplyDeleteHey gaurav...I was reading your posts and found few very interesting observation...I would agree to, though not to everything, but to most of the things you observed...i feel most of the examples you cited are behavorial and what I think having a right behaviour, towards day to day mundane things, comes from ability to identify right from wrong..and as you have mentioned its not the Higher education but the Higher sense of responsibilty which is important for a correct behaviour...i may not be true when I say all these but that is what I believe in...As for the Indian domestic flight example which mentioned about people standing in queues while the plane is taxiing on the ground...I found the same attitude with the people(who are considered to be better off ) in US, which is a developed nation...For that matter, I would say an individual in US, on an average, generates much more wastes(though they do not litter here and there) compared to an Indian...the point i want to drive home is that, its not about people in India or US, its about individual sense of reaponsibility for which education may not be the only driving factor...
ReplyDeletedefinitely whatever you observed are all examples of irresposible behaviour and we as an individual are also a part of it and we do make the same mistakes..even after knowing what we are doing is wrong...
just a thought...