The value of Education

The world has progressed a lot since the folks of stone age started making clubs and weapons of stones and rocks to defend themselves. The discovery of fire,wheel, agriculture, and barter were important points in human history as the human race took very critical steps forward in the history of the civilization. Compared to those times, nowadays development and advancement has been too rapid and sometimes they are frighteningly fast.

As different knowledge domains have diversified with increasing expertise, so have the complexity of the education system in India and abroad. Education system nowadays have become too proficient in collecting advanced Guru Dakshina by charging hefty fees. A high profile MBA from a highly rated Business School can set you back by as much as 10-15 lakhs for the 2 year duration course in the country. The logic must be something like we are taking care of your placements, our brand name will be attached to your resume for ever and we have to pay salary to the profs. and you have the luxury to sit in AC classrooms so you have to offer us a small token of your savings. A well accepted status quo nowadays but is education for sale? Too trifle a question to dismiss it at the first instant,isn't it? Do they radically transform students overnight or in 2 years? More important is the question whether people apply the values, they have learnt in educational institutions, to their social and personal life.

How many IIT engineers, IIM grads and AIIMS doctors have really contributed to the welfare of the Indian society and how many among them have really cared to even contribute something back to their motherland? Now think about this: how many of them have become big shots and have made "big"? How many of them migrated to other countries in search of better opportunities? Is brain drain really justified? People say that in absence of facilities in India they migrated to earn name, fame and money.

To put it across simply, my hats off to those who have stayed back and have worked for the development of the country. May this country rise from ashes like the mystical Phoenix. May this great nation regain its past glory and greatness.