To-day, a trend has come up embracing the entire globe that to be educated,
education must be expensive. The aristocratic society all over the globe thinks
that education of the rich men must possess blue blood in spite of the red
blood of the poor ones. This misconception had brought a sort of perversion in
education. Education must be given its autonomy to exists and evolve in its
natural form; otherwise we may only be capable to manufacture irresponsible
hotheads aspiring for higher chairs without having the capabilities to probe
into Nature, exploring new and great things from its infinite bosom.
The human encyclopedia never exhibits such a scenario that by spending money
extravagantly one has become a man of knowledge and wisdom. For this, what is
required is a hard life of discipline and dedication. Therefore, true education
demands not luxuries, not pomp and show but normal and natural conditions.
People with their perverted minds take education as a buyable and
saleable stuff, a completely commercialized enterprise. Marketing of education
must occupy a secondary status only; it must emerge as a by- produce in the
comprehensive concept of education. Is it a reality that the languages, the
sciences, the histories, the technologies etc. as taught in our Harvard and
Oxford universities are totally different from what are taught in our
village-schools? No, the subject matters are the same. The differences exist
only in the modalities of teaching and training; differences exist only in the
quality of education. But the price demanded for this is inhumanity high that
no deserving student can venture this campaign of education simply because he
is not enough to meet the highly prefixed expenses.
The question that confronts us is how
to solve this artificial problem? Education is a must,
because without it, there can be no evolution and transformation of
personalities. But if this campaign becomes an expensive activity, poor
students become deprived of these opportunities; especially this is a burning
question of the poor students of the underdeveloped and developing countries.
What would be the consequences of a wrong educational policy? Newton,
Faraday, Kalidas and so many such geniuses would therefore, remain
behind without getting any opportunity to appear on the dais. Therefore, a
global change in the concept of education and the functions of
educational institutions must come up and this concept must keep education in
its natural track. Education should not be commercialized is one concept, it
should neither be politicized is another concept. The main concept of
education must follow the twofold policy where knowledge and morality become
amalgamated in a beautiful admixture. Quality education is wanted because we
intend to produce experts covering multiple discipline, and morality we aspire
because we must want to avoid evil geniuses to appear and function in
the form.
Let us analyze the differences between a highly expensive school and an ordinary one. A highly expensive school demands Rs.10, 000 per month per student if he is a residential student whereas an ordinary school's demand would be not more than Rs.2000 on similar conditions. In some schools, the charge even reaches Rs.50, 000 per month. What specially do these highly expensive educational institutions exhibit? So far, nothing substantial has been the output of such institutions except some artificially inflated name and fame. The products of such highly expensive institutions have, of course, been capable to occupy the big chairs of big companies, which can pay them handsome salaries and provide other material privileges. But are these achievements alone, the exclusive aims and aspirations of education? The main purpose of education is transformation of personalities where knowledge and human play the most predominating roles. But today's scenario of education presents aristocratic exploitation everywhere.
Aristocrats make education so expensive that no poor man can face the challenge, so that the global environment would always come under the grip of rich society alone. Therefore, the elites all over the world should come in the front with a sound resolve for a drastic change in the educational scenario. Education must not be expensive is the first parameters; It must be an achievement of discipline and hard work divorced from luxuries, must be the second parameter. Hypocrisy, commercialization and politicization must not enter into area is the third parameter. The yardsticks chosen should be such that these undesirable elements should not even peer into the arena of education.
The fourth parameter is this that moral education must be made a compulsory subject like other compulsory subjects, English, Mathematics, Science etc. and this campaign must initiate right from LKG level and end only in Post graduate level. The fifth parameter is about its financial aspect. Fees and other expenses must be optimized on the basis of rationality equipped with factually. If a drastic change is invited by following the above said parameters, the real face of education will emerge and bring forth the outputs for which education has been designed in God's master plan.
