The Education!

When he went to the computer institution for the first time with his parents to enquire about the courses offered there & their scope, the person who was sitting in the chair of the manager cum councillor cum marketing executive cum trainer cum psychologist cum man of wisdom cum etc uttered in a voice of disbelief & wonder that HE COULD BE THE NEXT THING IN COMPUTER ANIMATION & he saw Raja Ravi Varma + Picasso + Leonardo Da Vinci + The Topmost Hollywood Animator at the same time in HIM that HIS educated & well planning parents took 70000/- rupees out of their hard earned deposit & made HIM join one of the greatest of the animation courses offered by the greatest of the computer institutions Never Heard By Anyone In The World!

After a couple of years of ‘animatorly’ excellent & intense training (Which He & His family continuously spoke about in large volumes through out the duration of His Excellent Animator course!) from the Never Heard Of Famous Institution, now he is working inside Hollywood, the name he has given to his small room inside his house which earlier had a name ‘Innocence’! There he is trying to live the lives of Raja Ravi Varma, Picasso, Da Vinci & Other Greats of Hollywood Animators, at the same time,  without ever knowing that the crafty manager cum councillor cum marketing executive cum trainer cum psychologist cum man of wisdom cum what not in the World Famous Unknown Institution, where he learned to be a Raja Ravi Varma + Picasso + Leonardo Da Vinci + The Topmost Hollywood Animator etc, at the same time, spending 70000/- and a couple of precious years of his life, would be continuously finding out, non stop, new Raja Ravi Varmas, Picassos, Da Vincis, Michael Angelos & others, all these years after he finished his 'World Class Animator Course!

The education industry is flourishing in India as never before & their listed shares are sky rocketing in the bourses in the gambling investors' extremely greedy hope & expectation that one day everyone will be joining THESE QUALITY INSTITUTIONS & the benefits will be inexpressible as the parents of the younger generations to come are seemingly preparing themselves to give their children the best education & training possible, throwing away even lakhs and crores! They are rushing to all the quality institutions around them carrying their children & bank pass books & ATM cards that they never miss an opportunity, which will come only once in a blue moon, to get the best for their children who always deserve the best!

They start with carrying their 3 or 4 year olds & running to the so called Tiny Tots, Kids Wonder, Wonder What, Tiny House, Tiny Rainbow, Who Is Tiny, Tiny Stable, Rainbow Children, Rainbow Wonder, Kids' Heaven, Magical Kids, Tiny Squeezer, Tiny Idiot, Tiny Wonderful Stupid, Tiny Dare Devils, Tiny Hell Raisers, Tiny Kids Of Screaming Parents, Kids Who Wonder What etc & make their precious ones join any of these Heavenly Kid Care Institutions in the market - It is a greedy market, where any sort of trick is applied to extract the last paisa & cheat the easily gullible parent customer!- paying 40000/-, 50000/-, 70000/-, 100000/- for a 2-3 hour Heavenly Training & Care, 5 Days A Week for the next 8 or 9 months! And, it is a wonderful & quality thing that most of the trainers in these Heavenly Care & Training Institutions are those who never had any sort of training in anything worthwhile & never knew what quality, human developmental stages, child care etc are!

It is the nature of the present day generation that those who have money will only come back after admitting THEIR LITTLE DEAR ONES in one of these so called modern & money grabbing institutions, once they set out to make the admissions of their young ones! It has become a matter of prestige for the parents of some means to THROW THEIR LITTLE ONES into the care of those who learn the tricks of tricking people by squeezing even the last ounce from the parents of the little wonders!

It is the Herd Effect that has taken complete control over the Tiny Tot Business! If one goes to a Tiny Place & get the little one admitted for 100000/- then the Herd Effect begins! All of a sudden, from no where, the piece of information comes and spreads & all the others will make a beeline to that particular Tiny Place with their young ones in their carry bags & start joining their young wonders in that same Tiny Place! Nobody ever knows or rather cares that the first one –The Parents!- who went there  -Tiny Place!- never had a former education and they also never knew what any sort of training was! They also never knew or will ever know that the first one was the close relative of the persons who started the Tiny Place to fleece the Parent Customers & the first one never paid anything to get the admission for their young one! Its all in the game baby, is the attitude of the persons who run these sorts of institutions – From Tiny Places to the Animation Centres!

It is a wonderful practice among the people of India to do whatever to get their sons & daughters into any lavishly advertised Non Quality institutions! Quality is never a criterion in making their children join any place for any sort of training or coaching. The training or education institution selection process, most of the times, is based on Herd Effect, Lack of Knowledge on the Institution and its quality standards of teaching & training, lack of knowledge as far as discipline in the institution –which is one of the most important things a training or educational institution should have as one should have Quality- is concerned, opinion of the little knowing son or daughter, advice of a person who doesn’t know anything about the institution & the educational standards implemented there, the intuition of the worst kind, prejudices etc!

What people look for in the present is whether the son or daughter is O.K with the institution at the time of admission & whether they stay in the same impression till they finish the course there & move on! No one is concerned about the Quality things one’ son or daughter gets from the institution where one is going to admit one’s son or daughter; no body bothers about Quality these days, it is stated! If Quality has been the sole criterion of the institution selection process, then 99% of the educational & training institutions in India, including many of the so called famous institutions in the private sector, and of course, the government sector as well would certainly have downed the shutters for ever, eons ago & gone to other easily beneficial fields of trickery where Quality is not required!

 

It is interesting to note that most of the training & educational institutions, the so called trainers & teachers, the parents, the people who go for training & education to these training & educational institutions, the educational bodies, the education planners, the governments which CLAIM TO BE the regulators, modifiers & visualisers of the future generations etc never knew what they want to get & should get from an education institution or Education Itself, how to get it, should one get it at all after the so called master training OFFERED by the ALL KNOWING INSTITUTIONS etc! All over India, crores of people go to the training & education institutions in the hope that they will have SOMETHING –Remember this ‘SOMETHING’ is never defined in Quality terms!- and it will be of SOME USE – This ‘SOME’ too is never Qualitatively defined!-  to their future.

It is always acceptable that the people keep on hoping ‘Great Things’ from the training imparted in the training institutions, all over India, as ‘Great Things’ change from person to person & view point to view point! Hence, as these ‘Great Things Of Expectation’ changes as the polar changes in the Sun, no one will be in a position to blame any of the educational or training institutions in India & anybody else in the world on ‘THE NOTHING THEY GET’ spending thousands & lakhs of hard earned money; and, ofcourse, that is fine with the education & training institutions! And, with Quality, Discipline, Knowledge etc seen nowhere, we can see lakhs & lakhs of Indians spending lakhs & lakhs or Indian Rupee to GET NOTHING but IMAGINARY GREAT THINGS from the education or training they are Supposedly Getting from the institution/s they enter with Great Expectations! When one ponders properly, one can /will definitely come into the right conclusion that the people who are Supposedly Getting Educated & Trained in the myriads of institutions in India get what they really deserve & ask for - NOTHING!

The Giants Who Never Grew Up!

Much before I went to his house I heard the miracles done by his child; his style of expression, I was told a million times with delight, put the Tamil superstar Rajanikanth to shame; his style of walking was described as something masterly than that of Amitab Bachan; his way of laughing was, as I was told, far superior in attracting people to him, that too much more than the ultimate Rajesh Khanna in his prime; his voice was something like a heavenly mix of Kishore Kumar & K.J Yesudas; his brilliancies far surpassed those of Albert Einstein; after all we should not blame the child for all these as he was sitting on the throne of Almighty, with the 24/7 support & promotion of his parents!

When I reached there I was more than eager to see this Wonder Boy whom I had continuously been told about. Then, there he was....the wonder boy of almost 4 who hadn't been anything lesser than Michael Schumacher, Viswanathan Anand, Tiger Woods, Bruce Willies, Thomas Alva Edison, Rod Laver & Mike Tyson fused together! He came to his father running and embraced him; the father, in his turn, took him in his arms & gave a kiss. I was eagerly waiting for some miracles from the boy's side.....! Then, the father put the son down & he went running inside to my utter despair as I saw my chance of witnessing a miracle running inside the house!

His father continuously told, as he had been telling me all these days, the great exploits of his Almighty Son as we sat inside the visitors' room, looking at the garden outside. Yesterday, when he was playing, he made a DRAGONFLY lift a stone deftly, he told as if Dragonfly was the elder brother of the MIGHTY DRAGON itself! A couple of days back he stood first in the class competition for the UKG kids in drawing, he told as if the Almighty Son had won the competition beating such archrivals as Pablo Picasso, Raja Ravi Varma, Winston Van gouge, Leonardo Da Vinci & Michael Angelo in a fierce, nerve rattling competition! His wife came there with coffee & snacks to remind him what the Almighty Son did to the 3 year old, a couple of weeks back, who STOLE his eraser while he was coming jam-packed in the over crowded auto rickshaw, from his pre primary school! "He kicked him on the face that he wouldn't even dare to look at the erasers in his whole life!” she cuckooed as if her Almighty Son had boxed down the mighty Joe Frazer in the ring at the finals of the WBF heavy weight bout for the Unified World Boxing Championship!

"He understands everything in a flash that his All Knowing Teachers are dazzled with his Marvellous Performance!", she continued to marvel at the Universal Thing which ‘The Mighty She’ contributed to this world out of her merciful mind! What might it would have been if this Almighty Son was not there in this silly dwarf world?! 'Ofcourse, it would have been a much lesser place to live in without the Almighty Son', her every word & action trumpeted this line! I remembered, sitting there sipping coffee, another mother who boasted of the Extraordinary Learning & Understanding Capacity -Of All the intricacies of the world with just a look, of course!- of her son when he was barely 6 months old! Though he didn't speak at that time he knew & understood EVERYTHING, she used to tell! From listening to her continuously all the people in her area used to come to her BABY to seek the Universal Wisdom the baby possessed from the BABY's non-speaking mouth! Without uttering a single word the BABY became very famous for its wisdom in a 10sq kilometre area, at the least! I wondered, what all marvellous things & hidden Universal secrets must had been known to the BIG-eyed green pupa of the butterfly -which moved its BIG eyes whenever I moved even a little bit, standing infront of it!- which I saw on the plant I grew in my terrace garden, the other day!

All over the world, I suppose, these kids have been having wonderful & miraculous capacities, capabilities & abilities that all the persons around them, including their Ever Wondering Parents ofcourse, have been running unstoppable yarn-mills, all these decades, about the extraordinary & superhuman adventures of their tiny tots! And, people all these decades keep listening to them & they never stopped wondering & marvelling! I have seen parents & grand parents promenading carrying the 1 year old, 2 year old & 3 year old living wonders in their hands & showcasing their sons' or daughters' extraordinary divine signs and drawing truck loads of appreciation from the ordinary mortals around their Devine Baby Zones! But what I find with great disappointment & despair is that these GIANTS, who have all the knowledge of the world without even opening up their mouth & perform such extra ordinary, super human things like whistling like a bird, jumping like a frog, imitating the parents & teachers -forget the imitating never reached anywhere near the original!- climbing like a monkey, running like a kid, singing like a nursery kid, learning like a parrot etc etc never grew up & all end up as old Dick, Harry, Ram, Priya, Soumya and Just the Others as the parents and grand parents & great grand parents are/were - just one/another mortal in billions!