Pay 3-8 Lakh rupees and you'll get one of the much sought after MBA/engineering/computer/media/fashion/law degrees with a little bit of number crunching! Now academic excellence, intellectual mindset, pursuit of knowledge, these facets stand faceless in front of fat salaries and the lures of big cities and corporate life. Our government and private institutes of education, save a few are becoming factories that produce the so called professionals at an alarming rate. Degrees and certificates serve as stamps, as unseen markers that give us a space and identity in the rat race for jobs. The mushrooming coaching institutes, student suicides, fake degree rackets, these evils symbolise the increasing pressure on our education system.
What say we go back to the ancient system of gurukul education? Have we moved too far away from that? For education is now a mere process of "rattafication" (mugging up) and passing examinations!
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