Beyond the cirriculum

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF CURRICULUM
Education as a terminology is an abused term. The umbrella of the topics and expectations that this term covers and pandered to; most of it goes highly unnoticed. Normally one would confidently assume, that studying the books prescribed by NCERT would give the privilege of somebody being labelled as ‘educated’ but that barely covers the legitimate grounds and the true essence of the term.


So what does it really mean to be educated?
I think the perfect example of  someone being truly literate and possessing undiluted, pure knowledge is someone who doesn’t get stuck in the brackets of  curriculum and truly studies for the sake of betterment and not passing an exam. Education in the truest sense of term liberates a person and gives him a true knowledge of rights, responsibilities, duties and identity of being a citizen. It makes him more aware than just somebody equipped to write an exam and pass it with glorious scores. It enriches him to be a better human.
But why do we not see enough of that?
We don’t and with the current system that the things play in, one shouldn’t expect to. The system that we breed in exhausts the best of our potential to invest it into the knowledge of something redundant whose sole purpose is to excel academically rather than really grow. The real failure in our education system is that very limitation.


And what is the difference between someone who goes beyond the curriculum and someone who stays within that perimeter.


The analogy is simple: The one who steps out, is Mark Zuckerberg and the who does not step out is a prestigious employee in Facebook. Indians are one of the most populated people in Silicon Valley, our lustrous examples leading the finest companies in the world such as Google and Microsoft. Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai are glorious role models to our young whizkids but are we truly following their footsteps?


Leaders are born out of rebels and their followers are born out of formulaic diligence and what we manufacture are people who follow the formulaic diligence. There are however no two ways to argue about its existence. The one who fights and crawls out of the curriculum is a true winner.


India is not the country which aims at innovation, it follows the intelligents rather than the imaginative and the creative. The divide in this nation has an extremely fat margin, the progressive peak towards monumental proportions of being up there and those who are oppressed continue to be punched down by one subtle sought or the other. In the middle of this is the prospect of quality education and in my own humble opinion, the only way to reduce this margin is to provide a secular unbiased, equal proportion of education to everybody.

A true party happens when everybody gets the part of a cake.

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