Pastime Musings - 2

                         If everything pans out as scheduled, this would be my last week in this campus. It also marks the end of metamorphosis from student to worker. I had been a student for the last 19 years in a kind of educational framework which pressed hard the seekers of it for marks,marks and marks. Success stories were weaved around these numbers and egos,envies were generated by these marks. These marks hugged the student who read, retain and reproduce well (barring the entrance tests when the questions were twisted). Though there is no alternative for this indicator to differentiate, does it mould the learners the way they had to learn? Can the winners of this type of learning be called as those fully stuffed with 'meaningful' education? If not all, are the toppers at least contributing to the progress of arts or science they learned from these temples of education? Does all these educational institutions have profit maximization not as their prime motive? Whether or not, the answers to these questions are true or false, every year lakhs of graduates are being awarded with Masters and Bachelors degrees, majority among whom serve little or no value to the entitled degree.(Author not an exception).

                          Last weekend 8 of us had been to Wayanad in Kerala, a place amid
nature's wild and beauty. The journey passes through a wild life sanctuary which was said to house almost every noted animal. Hardly do we ever bump into a Peacock sitting pretty on road and flying at the sight of a vehicle. The journey would have been much more lively if a Tiger or any big thing(like in Jurassic Park) chased us and we escaped. But the relentless efforts by the species called Homo Sapiens(human beings) in driving away the creatures like tigers to death made our journey less lively. The sophisticated social animal in clothes does a favour to itself if it respects the freedom and rights of less powerful creatures in this animal planet for peaceful co-existence. (click on images to know about them).
                              



                              With reference to the last but one post, the serial (training) is completed and the moral learnt is - Hard work(or any work) never fails. It prepares the success drink more deliciously by adding sweat and sweet of failure.

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