The Doon Mozaic (Hypocrisy in Education System of Uttarakhand) Hypocrisy in Education System of Uttarakhand | Page 21

turnover of a crore to the company but when asked about who brought up these ideas of
marketing they are blank .They just know methods to produce money but have no clue
about the history of their particular field or what led to such changes in the new world
market .Their knowledge has become more money focused and materialistic. They
know only that much which is sufficient to make them earn a few good dollars .That’s
it! Such practices are leading our society to become hollow where education and
knowledge are concerned .An educated person is someone who can well understand a
concept and its outcomes and deal with it effectively in benefit of the society and every-
one rather than just personal gains. Someone who knows the reasons of existence and
the phenomenon of the surroundings and humanitarian methods of behavior.
Gurukul system of education preva-
lent in the Vedic Society of the an-
cient world taught their upcoming
generation the skills and values
needed to uplift the society and the
living standards of the individu-
als .In comparison to that system
modern schools have a subject
called Moral Science or Character
Formation in their curriculum which is mend to impart humanitarian and societal val-
ues. Parents take such a subject as just an extra burden .They don’t hesitate to compel
their child to do rote learning. Such inert and dormant methods of learning do not initi-
ate new ideas or trigger innovations .They just add on to the already existing huge num-
ber of dumb graduates with higher degrees from famous universities and lack of the
fundamental knowledge and source of the new ways and technologies .There is fault at
the very basic level .Students seek more tuition centers which feed you with more ways
to get more marks considering marks as one of the “survival skills”. This in turn pres-
surizes students to greater extent leading to depression among students and development
of hatred towards books and education .Such pressure gives rise to aggression and reck-
lessness in thought ad behavior which altogether fails the entire education system. All
they are concerned about is then of marks and marks alone .Cheating and coping from
guides, guess papers, chits, phones, etc. only add on the marks and not knowledge.
What we see today is that a student of commerce stream is blank about the basic biolog-
ical facts and biology student is blank about the basic hardware knowledge of their lap-
tops. All that students learn today is how to produce money from there narrow subject
knowledge and if their child comes to ask them about ‘why February has 29 days?’