Edu-Cash-In

There has been a phenomenal growth in the education sector in terms of business but the real motive behind is long lost. Inspired by the latest trend, the term ‘Edu-Cash-in’ is coined. If its education, its cash!

Schools, colleges have minted money, and analysts call it the best bet over the next two decades. Let’s see how it all fell in place. Economy grows, companies require good people to work, with adequate skills, now here the passion to learn is taken over by the sheer goal of acquiring skills for ‘money’ (pay). The government is falling short of time, so private players cash-in the opportunity and there you find yourself in the education revolution of high tech gadgets and swanky classrooms, off course all that comes with a hefty price. Simple economics isn't it?

To add a little flavour government decides to increase the demand of education by keeping the reservation system intact, and hence the problem of wrong people in the right place arises, now the right person when in the wrong place also losses the passion to learn and indulges in the quest to get back what he/she has paid (invested).

So you say we have narrowed it down to, two simple aspects-

·         Passion/ Motive (Money)

·         Right person/Wrong Place

Education trusts enjoy tax benefits, hence the rich have a good opportunity to put in their black money, but it isn’t wrong if its social service, but to gain more black money from the existing black money, makes it a goldmine! Wow!

Education and learning were synonymous some time during the Ramayana, which we only remember seeing in DD (Doordarshan). Cash gives it a new meaning all together, you teach for money we learn for money! Isn’t it amazing, how money can corrupt something as pure as education. Now there is no learning its education. Has anybody ever asked you, what have you learned in life? Nah! All we hear is, what are your academic credentials? True isn’t it?

Now when you move out to the corporate or the so called outside world to earn your daily bread, you have learnt a few extraordinary skills like sucking up to people, portraying everything you don’t know.

Strange we enter to learn, curiosity, the ability to ask questions, the ability to be able to reason things with logic, the skill to accept that we don’t know so many things, and the simple yet complicated art of accepting. In the end we have given exams scored marks and learnt the opposite of what we were supposed to learn.

Once while sitting on a journey after my graduation, pondering on aspects of life and its reason, I coined a line which said, “The world doesn’t belong to the pessimist or the optimist it belongs to the opportunists.”

Education as we knew rests in pieces and is now “Edu-Cash-In”.