The Doon Mozaic (Hypocrisy in Education System of Uttarakhand) Hypocrisy in Education System of Uttarakhand | Page 22

They might respond –I’ll tell you tomorrow! The irony is that people are not even sure
about their chosen fields .A lawyer does not know the spelling of the word ‘Affidavit’, a
doctor prescribes same medicine for same ailment to different patient when it is com-
mon sense that everybody is different and same medicine does not suit everyone suffer-
ing from a similar disorder ,teacher only makes various grammatical errors in her
speech what would she teach her students, a computer students doesn’t have knowledge
about the motherboard of his PC ….The list is endless and it’s not funny !It shameful
and a matter of grave seriousness which needs to be solved soon .Such examples keep
coming up every day and every moment reflecting the major fault in our society .Just a
few days back a student from Doon International School (DIS) came to learn spoken
English in my institution .If this is the case what has the child being doing all those
years in school !He was unable to learn English in an English medium school. Again a
student from Touch Wood of fourth standard who could not read the word ‘friend’ until
someone tells her how to (she suffers from no learning disability) . There are hundreds
of such examples in our society .Reason of this state of education is negligence on the
part of parents ,teachers ,students and other heads of the education system .Now a days
parents look for an institution based on its infrastructure ,number of branches and place-
ments offered ,tie-ups ,etc. rather than looking up for the quality of education they de-
liver to their students .This makes the students dumb and incompetent when compared
with students of other countries . When this is the state in a city like Dehradun which is
known to be an educational hub what about other states .Whom are we then trusting
with our child’s future then ?This is the future India awaits ahead ?!This system has
made the mind devoid of rational and divergent thinking .There is no place left for inno-
vation or improvisation ,though there is a need but there is no acceptance .If we contin-
ue with this ineffective education system we would never be able to rise .Our history
holds witness to various geniuses like C.V. Raman ,S .Ramanujan , Aryabhat-
ta ,Charaka ,Rabindranth Tagore, etc. who were far ahead from their times and brought
about great revolutions which changed the entire world. Such people were a part of our
society who took India to greater heights .It’s not that this land has stopped producing
such geniuses .Many recent examples are still there. Rifath Sharook (12th pass) who
recently invented world’s lightest satellite (64 gms) ;Shiva Ayyadurai (14 yr old) in-
vented Email in 1978; M. Tenith Adithya (15 yr old) who has 17 inventions under his
name and there are a lot more such geniuses in our country .All that is lacking is an effi-
cient system to support and motivate the young generation to search out or the truths –in
depth truths ,complete truths so that they could create new ways of life rather than