There are educated people.
Then there are overly qualified ones who speak complete bullshit.
They are known as 'educated idiots'.
These are the people that hold the highest position in the office or society and have access to or have used the media in one way or other to voice their opinions.
They may boast of degrees they got from studying in various universities outside the country and its probably their favorite topic of conversation with people least interested in hearing it.
Highly qualified, they are, educated to the point where its unnecessary, that too.
But the thing that they so lack is, common sense or any sort of sensibility when asked of their opinion on any sensitive issues.
The media people are clever too, they won't go the one wise person who would say the right thing.
Instead they approach the ones they are sure would say something stupid and outrageous and later cover it up by saying their favorite English word that they stumbled upon in the dictionary, 'misquoted'.
Everyone knows what they really mean and it doesn't make any difference whether they change their statement and issue another one.
They know what they are talking makes no sense so they try to cover it up by blaming someone else.
This process follows until the media are themselves bored and find a new topic.
Then it all starts again.
Our country is not the only one where something like this happens, there are various others where its on a completely different level.
Coming back, what really is the problem, for that one has to go really deep.
The root of the problem.
I pretty much blame our education system.
They are responsible for guiding students, instead all they do is force down stuff that's not related or worth learning.
You learn what's in the book and in the exam you are expected to answer the way they taught you, word to word and if you dare write your own interpretation of the answer, they will fail you.
Our whole education system is hell bent on making us learn theories and focus less on practicals and projects that one day every youth in this country seeking a job will know what the job is about but have no knowledge on how to do that job.
Let's say an interviewer has to choose between two people, one who got straight A's in every exam and other who was an average scorer but did a lot of projects, the obvious choice would be the one who did a lot of projects.
While the straight A's student would be wondering why he failed the interview he would soon come to the bitter realization that getting high scores do guarantee you a seat in most prestigious college's in the country, but are totally worthless while seeking a job.
Take another example.
A young man in his 20's, he's just graduated from one of the top university in US, comes back to India and applies for a job in one of the Fortune 500 companies, he clears the interview and though he doesn't get the position he wanted, he does get a huge paycheck plus some perks.
In his first day at work or say a week later, he doesn't get to work on some big projects, instead he's busy on some assignments that according to him isn't on his job description.
He goes to complain about it to his boss who shouts an array of abuses that he has by his obvious reaction never heard from his friends or even people who hated him.
Dejected he goes back to his desk and starts questioning his career choice.
He left that company the next day in the hope that some other would let him do what he wants.
It'll probably never happen, but what does he know.
That's reality.
You see, in colleges we all are shown the big picture, but all the sacrifices and hard work that you put to complete that picture is hardly mentioned.
We learn the rules in colleges and at work learn to break them if we ever want to move forward.
I feel the best type of education one gets is when they are working.
Learning on the job is good and plus you are paid for it, who would complain about this type of education.
Here they teach you what is required of you and nothing more or less.
The stuff you come across while working at times is even new to you and its fun knowing how it functions.
In no way am I criticizing the need of higher education.
For certain jobs and positions that kind of education is a must.
Say, if you want to become a doctor because you like treating wounds, then you can't become one just by reading medical books or books about the human anatomy and start cutting people up.
You'll kill them no matter how much talented you are.
Another thing is language.
Many years back and even today in this country people feel that if a person is conversing with you in English then he or she is from an high social background or an educated person.
English is the global language.
If you can't speak it then it means you aren't literate or didn't receive enough education.
I think its stupid.
The whole idea is.
It's like saying that every English speaking person in this planet is intelligent.
To me English is a language, a language used for communicating with others.
Language, in fact any language is supposed to be a means of communication.
What language is not, is a bar to measure your intelligence.
It should never be used that way either.
People who judged others based on that person's linguistic knowledge should really pay a visit to their shrink's cause something is really wrong with them.
There might be highly gifted individuals who can contribute a lot in this world but since they can't speak English don't get much recognition.
Then there are those who despise and ostracize others for speaking in a language that they can't understand.
If someone ever came up to me told me to speak in the language they understand and not the one in which I was conversing them with, I would humbly deny their request and if that leads to them laying a hand on me, I guarantee that it'll be the last time they ever raised their hand or even opened their mouth.
Nobody and I mean nobody has any right to tell me in what language I should talk in.
I speak in the languages that I'm comfortable with.
At home I'm comfortable in talking in Hindi, whereas outside or other places I use English.
Even the locals prefer the language they know rather than other which they have a lesser knowledge of.
Knowing other languages doesn't hurt but that doesn't mean one is supposed to know every language if they wish to travel to other countries or places.
It'll be a really long time when people come to this realization.
Till then one can hope that this country would produce more knowledgeable people and give less importance to those educated idiots.
Then there are overly qualified ones who speak complete bullshit.
They are known as 'educated idiots'.
These are the people that hold the highest position in the office or society and have access to or have used the media in one way or other to voice their opinions.
They may boast of degrees they got from studying in various universities outside the country and its probably their favorite topic of conversation with people least interested in hearing it.
Highly qualified, they are, educated to the point where its unnecessary, that too.
But the thing that they so lack is, common sense or any sort of sensibility when asked of their opinion on any sensitive issues.
The media people are clever too, they won't go the one wise person who would say the right thing.
Instead they approach the ones they are sure would say something stupid and outrageous and later cover it up by saying their favorite English word that they stumbled upon in the dictionary, 'misquoted'.
Everyone knows what they really mean and it doesn't make any difference whether they change their statement and issue another one.
They know what they are talking makes no sense so they try to cover it up by blaming someone else.
This process follows until the media are themselves bored and find a new topic.
Then it all starts again.
Our country is not the only one where something like this happens, there are various others where its on a completely different level.
Coming back, what really is the problem, for that one has to go really deep.
The root of the problem.
I pretty much blame our education system.
They are responsible for guiding students, instead all they do is force down stuff that's not related or worth learning.
You learn what's in the book and in the exam you are expected to answer the way they taught you, word to word and if you dare write your own interpretation of the answer, they will fail you.
Our whole education system is hell bent on making us learn theories and focus less on practicals and projects that one day every youth in this country seeking a job will know what the job is about but have no knowledge on how to do that job.
Let's say an interviewer has to choose between two people, one who got straight A's in every exam and other who was an average scorer but did a lot of projects, the obvious choice would be the one who did a lot of projects.
While the straight A's student would be wondering why he failed the interview he would soon come to the bitter realization that getting high scores do guarantee you a seat in most prestigious college's in the country, but are totally worthless while seeking a job.
Take another example.
A young man in his 20's, he's just graduated from one of the top university in US, comes back to India and applies for a job in one of the Fortune 500 companies, he clears the interview and though he doesn't get the position he wanted, he does get a huge paycheck plus some perks.
In his first day at work or say a week later, he doesn't get to work on some big projects, instead he's busy on some assignments that according to him isn't on his job description.
He goes to complain about it to his boss who shouts an array of abuses that he has by his obvious reaction never heard from his friends or even people who hated him.
Dejected he goes back to his desk and starts questioning his career choice.
He left that company the next day in the hope that some other would let him do what he wants.
It'll probably never happen, but what does he know.
That's reality.
You see, in colleges we all are shown the big picture, but all the sacrifices and hard work that you put to complete that picture is hardly mentioned.
We learn the rules in colleges and at work learn to break them if we ever want to move forward.
I feel the best type of education one gets is when they are working.
Learning on the job is good and plus you are paid for it, who would complain about this type of education.
Here they teach you what is required of you and nothing more or less.
The stuff you come across while working at times is even new to you and its fun knowing how it functions.
In no way am I criticizing the need of higher education.
For certain jobs and positions that kind of education is a must.
Say, if you want to become a doctor because you like treating wounds, then you can't become one just by reading medical books or books about the human anatomy and start cutting people up.
You'll kill them no matter how much talented you are.
Another thing is language.
Many years back and even today in this country people feel that if a person is conversing with you in English then he or she is from an high social background or an educated person.
English is the global language.
If you can't speak it then it means you aren't literate or didn't receive enough education.
I think its stupid.
The whole idea is.
It's like saying that every English speaking person in this planet is intelligent.
To me English is a language, a language used for communicating with others.
Language, in fact any language is supposed to be a means of communication.
What language is not, is a bar to measure your intelligence.
It should never be used that way either.
People who judged others based on that person's linguistic knowledge should really pay a visit to their shrink's cause something is really wrong with them.
There might be highly gifted individuals who can contribute a lot in this world but since they can't speak English don't get much recognition.
Then there are those who despise and ostracize others for speaking in a language that they can't understand.
If someone ever came up to me told me to speak in the language they understand and not the one in which I was conversing them with, I would humbly deny their request and if that leads to them laying a hand on me, I guarantee that it'll be the last time they ever raised their hand or even opened their mouth.
Nobody and I mean nobody has any right to tell me in what language I should talk in.
I speak in the languages that I'm comfortable with.
At home I'm comfortable in talking in Hindi, whereas outside or other places I use English.
Even the locals prefer the language they know rather than other which they have a lesser knowledge of.
Knowing other languages doesn't hurt but that doesn't mean one is supposed to know every language if they wish to travel to other countries or places.
It'll be a really long time when people come to this realization.
Till then one can hope that this country would produce more knowledgeable people and give less importance to those educated idiots.
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