2015 is the year. It has been 68 years since India became independent, but when will the Indian students gain THEIR independence. What fights must a student fight in order to stop being judged for what he or she chooses to study? What will it take to make the Indian society stop labeling anyone who doesn’t choose to study engineering or medical as a no good? Why does the bias exist anyway?
The India society is progressing. We eradicated polio, launched the Mars orbital mission, had a Nobel Peace Prize winner among many other things, there has been so much progress. How about some progression of thought now?
The Indian population is in billions. Not everyone can or wants to become an engineer or a doctor. The various other choices are presented to them through the Commerce and Arts stream. This array of choices can be explored by the student according to their choices and talents. These streams give us bankers, artists, authors, poets, business people and what not! The country can’t solely survive with a population of only engineers or doctors! Who would provide education to the children if there were no teachers? Who would convert every feeling or yours into words, were there no poets?
We love going to restaurants, we drool over the food and wish to indulge in its gluttonous delights. Who prepares that food? A cook. Not an engineer.
You were mesmerized by the honey sweet voice of a person and the graceful moves like a swan of another performing in the theatre you visited. You know who entertains you? Those are the singers and the dancers and the show you watched and enjoyed so much was brought together piece by piece by the combined effort of a director, a choreographer, sound and light experts and many other people but not by a doctor.
We are such a culturally diverse country, then why must we limit ourselves when it comes to education?
Passion is what drives people. Don’t force anyone to such an extent that their passion is killed just because they’re scared of what the society might say. If this judgmental attitude continues, then every time a “society killed” artist will put a tie around his neck to leave for his cubicle restricted job, his art will choke and die. Every year 11% of Indian students attempt suicide because they are unable to cope up with the stress of either studying something they’re being forced to or because of the stress of the entrance exams.
According to the statistics posted by scroll.in, in 2013, 2471 suicides were attributed to ’failure in exams’. Since when has a certain professional become more important than a human life?
Open your minds! Broaden your thinking! It’s a new day and the opportunities are immense, let the students breathe, let them live their lives and let them go after what they love. Let the student be a painter or an archaeologist or a singer or a chef because it isn’t the end of the world if their degree doesn’t read B-Tech or MBBS.
