Blog me...curiosity redefined

 

       After a while, I got my free time yesterday and wanted to keep myself away from work. At times, I can keep on going and going when it comes to work, that I feel jaded. Yesterday was my break day.  I started my day with a movie in Global Malls, went to OMG2. Since I saw its trailer and my obsession with Gods, made this an obvious choice.      By the way, I did enjoy the OMG part 1 too, where Paresh Rawal filed a case against God for an earthquake. It was Krishna who came to his rescue there.   OMG2 is on a totally different level. The message in the movie was not just about the religious beliefs, but how our Indian education system was so advanced in ancient history.     It reminds me of Lord Macaulay's address to the British parliament on 2nd Feb 1835, where he emphasizes that in order for them to dominate India, they need to break our education system. A snippet of his speech in the pic below: Credits - raganugapre...

        What is it that education should teach us? Is it creativity or learning or both? Or is it the art of learning things quickly and with focus? Or is it just concentration like Swami Vivekananda taught us? Is it the character building to help us succeed in the real life? I will leave the thought for you to answer.          My question is can we find such a school today? At the end of the day, what are we producing, a bunch of craps? Should the character building be the foundation of any education system? I would prefer an old style Gurukul to learn than this system. Imagine each student getting an expertise as per his interests and inclination, just like Arjuna and Bheema learnt bow/arrow and gada (or mace) in Mahabharatha.          Here are few of my wishes, yeah quite interestingly odd enough => Indian School of Learning => Indian School of Hobbies                 ...

     What matters most? Are you happy being a learner or getting educated? If the answer is learning, then I believe you would agree that we are on the right path. Getting educated is good but today's top innovators have proved that today's education system is destroying the self learning process.  Elon Musk, Bill Gates are few examples in US, Srinivasa Ramanujan a mathematical genius has proved that getting formal education is irrelevant.      The future of education lies in continuously unlearning and learning what is necessary. I would like to deviate a bit. Can you keep on learning something you are passionate about as long as you believe that is going to make a difference to the human kind? Wouldn't that be the more satisfactory than just learning what is necessary?      Life long learning is the need of the hour. Can I have an open program with universities and start learning every course that I am interested in at any stage of ...