Higher education at the cross roads

I had been musing over the plight of our future generations.Our politicians had been crying form the roof tops that they have entred politics to serve the people and make India an ocean of knoweledge.Today hardly 2% of our population are enrolled for higher education.Many of our villages have no schools worth the name.Many of our youth coming out of the portals of our educational institutions are not emplyable because they lack proper knowledge and the needed skills.There are no quality control in primary, secondary and even at the University leval educations institutions.Bodies such as UGC,NAAC and AICTE have found themselves in capable of controlling the rapid fluctuations in the quality of education so imparted.Added to this is the privatisation of education,which has contributed to the mushrooming of educational institutions with questionable quality and catering to a substandard education fleecing poor students and impoverished parents.The uneducated parents are the worst affected.The middle class parents beg, barrow or sell their paltry property thinking that one day their sons and daughters would earn to reclaim their lost properties.The rich do not really need the benifits of education excepting to have a social recongnition.In fact,the government instead of reserving seats on caste basis should reserve seats to the poor and the deserving.

Our Country is famous for its corrupt practices.The adage show me the person i shall show you the rules is aptly being followed.We must inculcate through our educational system basic values of honesty,integrity and charity.Our young boys and girls are becoming extremely selfish.They must be taught to be selfless,kind, helpful,respect to the elders and to be honest.To day one can see the rat race thats going on in many metro cities.Girls have lost all values.Boys are no better.For them the end justifies the means.Todays youth will become tomarrows parents.They would be sentinels of our future generations.If they themselves resort to unfair means,what would happen to our civilization?Stop,pause and think.Wake up now or else it would be too late.The parents must teach values to their children.The neo rich are the curse of our society.The politicians do more damage to the fabric of our civilization in the name of dema(n)ocracy.

Teachers parents students doctors lawyers engineers government servants bussiness men and writers must all wake up and work for a common cause of reforming our education system make it more value based and knowledge oriented.Then only we could talk of making India a knowledge society