On my neighborhood, my eyes went to a group of small kids of
9 playing with woods. 10 minutes from then, the woods had been turned into a
beautiful house. I asked what were they doing, and they say they are making
their house. Then I asked them, don’t they have to go to their school? They say
it is their holiday. This answer of theirs splashed me with a question, “Would
they do the same if they were in school?”
What would they be doing if they were in school? Keeping some
random guesses- attempting diverse excuses for not completing their
assignments, mugging up dates of some great inventions, shaking their heads
chanting “yes sir, yes sir” on every statement heard, being punished for
feeling monotonous in classroom, jotting down mathematical answers or copying
every statements from the white board be it true, false or list of expired
information.
Most important of all,
undoubtedly they would be in the process of being educated if they were in
school, in the highway of their brighter future, chained in the barriers of
theories, mugging up the history with an assumption of achieving better
tomorrow by destroying their today. They would be internalizing that they are
student first and only then children’s; fighter of job in the future but never
a human. Life is meant to survive with seriousness but never to explore with
curiosity. There is no way sun goes round the moon or an apple ever flies to
sky. If 1 person can do a work in 10 days, it takes 5 days for 2 people to do
it, no matter how strong, genius or supermanly they are. They would believe
that victory is not in being better but in beating their friends which is
possible when they don’t help them; Being best is scoring highest in all
subject, and being worst is being best in only one. Thinking out of the box is
being mischievous; thinking with the book is pursuit of brilliance. And when
the kids are in the examination hall, they can be sure; these three hours are
stars of their life, since it will determine their impression in the market and
forecast their future. Most important of all, what they are doing in their
holiday, building up creative designs out of woods, is worthless and impossible
at this age, they need to study 12 years more and become engineers to do what
they are doing now.
From hairstyle, assignments, answers, geniuses and even
uniqueness, every trait is meant to be the same to be upgraded, if not you are
tagged failure and deserve trying one more year. Coz this system believes “The
one who follows succeeds, the who takes new lead fails and is to be
punished”
Invention, innovation, exploration have always been soul of
civilization, the misfortune, our education, our fortune teller have been a
parasite designed to discourage the unimaginable possibility of human
imagination.
Would they do the same if they were in school? No sir, not
the same but the same which we have been doing since years on our schools. They
may call it education; I call it creativity execution, that is what happens in
school
What if they were not in school? They would not be doing what
they were taught to be done, but what came from within and meant to be done.
