This is the age of competition. I have come to believe that this slogan and its operationalisation might be the reason that we are failing to create a self confident and innovative manpower. Competitions are in the nature of races. Races are possible only on well defined narrow tracks. By forcing our young people to confine themselves to such narrow tracks while running these races, we are shaving off the personalities of many multifaceted individuals.
The judges of the races work hard to define the rules and shapes of the tracks such that the results can be given in a few digits. Qualities outside the track parameters are disregarded. We are looking for cloned individuals, and the premium on being successful in the race tends to produce only limited robots. Those who fall outside the boundaries are sacrificed and damaged badly. Rich and innovative personalities, some with charming quirks, are not wanted.
All this effort on the part of the official measuring and grading systems is aggressively helped and encouraged by the large coaching industry. This industry can succeed only in producing robotic clones, sometimes destroying the diversities of well rounded human beings. You could not coach a Gandhi, Franklin, Einstein or the inventor of the first desktop computer. We seem to have decided that we do not want any mediocre of that category! We only want a tunnel vision industrious variety at this stage in our development!
The sad thing is that we are doing all this with a feeling that we are engaged in a great educational venture. It is possible that a whole generation of beautiful young people is being sacrificed.Only when we learn to teach and evaluate in a manner such that all coaching becomes redundant and superfluous, we would have arrived. There seems to be a conspiracy that we do not move in that direction I wonder who is conspiring?
DR. NAVRAJ SINGH SANDHU, navraj@gmail.com
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