Defective By Design: Bogus Education System

Own Experience: Alabhya Singh, Alumnus IIT Kharagpur (1986), Professional | Detailed Biograph

I never learnt anything in any formal education system, be it UP Sainik School, or my college IIT Kharagpur.

Being true to myself, hence original and fiercely uncompromising to safeguard my freedom of thought had its natural consequences, as ALWAYS FAILING in the so called education system from school to college.

Failure can come from both directions, higher or lower! In school I failed from lower side, in IIT Kharagpur and GATE, I.I.Sc. Ph.D. Entrance, B.A.R.C. Training School entrance etc. I failed from upper side. Failures are defined by me as significant/threshold deviations from averages, after all this system caters to averages and mediocrity only. No wonder I was punished several times at IIT Kharagpur for being a questioning bright boy with his tail not wagging to please the ego of the 20 marks grade or even fate deciding arbitrary discretionary powers in the hands of arguably not so bright teachers to subjugate first grade all India rankers from JEE.

My detailed biograph (https://sanskrit.org.in/alabhya-bio.pdf) proudly presents my so called failures in BOLD to punch the futility of the bogus education system.

Unfortunately the so called educational elite are full of hubris, living only to fulfil their material desires in a "defective by design" system. This point has been recently beautifully and candidly expressed in her candid article "The philosophy of power and prestige The way the steel frame functions and thinks: a critical view from deep within it, from one among the fraternity" (Hindi translation and more views in Hindi) 30 Jun 2018 by Mrs Deepali Rastogi, Senior IAS officer, MP cadre.

There is simply no point in only criticizing others, one must expand efforts to make life better for self and others through concrete vision and action. https://sanskrit.org.in is one umbrella effort in the "Sixfold Path: Purity for Welfare" direction.

Reference

  1. Ten Little Fingers http://arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/tlf120.pdf.
  2. Meri Das Ungliyan (Hindi) https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/tenlittlefingers%20-%20h2.pdf.
  3. Danger School http://arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/Danger_schoo.pdf.
  4. Khatara School (Hindi) https://arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/khatraschool.pdf.