A reader found my previous blog so ambiguous that he likened it to 'Mumbai Chaupaty' bhel. My bad! So here at the outset only, let me put all my cards on the table.
1. In India, a paper degree does not necessarily mean Intelligence. At the worst, both are inversely proportional. Mugging for the exams can get you a certificate without understanding even a bit about what you learn.
2. Scientific temperament is grossly in short supply. So is the comprehensive understanding of life in general, where science should play a bigger part, in reality, it is overshadowed by any other factor, but it!
3. It does not matter which discipline you belong to, religion and other factors play a much more significant role in moulding your person.
4. Rational thinking takes a back seat when concrete actions are desired
5. You hardly find a real intelligent gem, if he comes by any chance, he comes with a tag of religion, political affiliation, his own bias so and so fore.
[In context to the last blog, a dietician has to be a dietician and not a 'Jain' dietician ! ]
What prompted me to post the first part, were two patients, highly educated at that, but in my opinion, lacked the comprehensive awareness about everything in general, that education should [or is it must] impart. Sorry to say but in multiple cases my experience was to the contrary. In today's India, a person is highly qualified on the paper but when it comes to the application, it draws to zero. From M. Tech s to B.E.s from C.A.s to MBA s it draws a blank. I am refraining myself from using the word flack !. I am deliberately omitting Arts and commerce graduates because there, it is absolutely dark. Extremely sorry to say but these are my personal experiences. unfortunately, they stand true, even for science graduates in some cases.
1. In India, a paper degree does not necessarily mean Intelligence. At the worst, both are inversely proportional. Mugging for the exams can get you a certificate without understanding even a bit about what you learn.
2. Scientific temperament is grossly in short supply. So is the comprehensive understanding of life in general, where science should play a bigger part, in reality, it is overshadowed by any other factor, but it!
3. It does not matter which discipline you belong to, religion and other factors play a much more significant role in moulding your person.
4. Rational thinking takes a back seat when concrete actions are desired
5. You hardly find a real intelligent gem, if he comes by any chance, he comes with a tag of religion, political affiliation, his own bias so and so fore.
[In context to the last blog, a dietician has to be a dietician and not a 'Jain' dietician ! ]
What prompted me to post the first part, were two patients, highly educated at that, but in my opinion, lacked the comprehensive awareness about everything in general, that education should [or is it must] impart. Sorry to say but in multiple cases my experience was to the contrary. In today's India, a person is highly qualified on the paper but when it comes to the application, it draws to zero. From M. Tech s to B.E.s from C.A.s to MBA s it draws a blank. I am refraining myself from using the word flack !. I am deliberately omitting Arts and commerce graduates because there, it is absolutely dark. Extremely sorry to say but these are my personal experiences. unfortunately, they stand true, even for science graduates in some cases.
I was talking about two patients, one is a chemical engineer and the other B.E., software techy. When first came to me, he was weighing 100 kgs.; was suffering from diabetes, and mild hypertension from a very young age. I advised him to lose weight on war footing to have a better future for both, him as a person and his diseases too. I, in my own way, explained to him the basic principle of physics, which, him being chemical engineer, should not have been a problem to grasp [ in another case too, who was computer engineer, it stood true ]. Mass is never created never lost. If you are weighing more, you are taking more mass from nature, YOU are not manufacturing/ or producing it! In the next visit, he was weighing 117 kgs and the software engineer jumped from the 80s to 100 kgs! The height was, they both feigned ignorance about how it escalated without them eating a single calorie more! I wondered, these highly educated, qualified science postgraduates if don't understand the basic science then it's absolutely futile to hope that Pyaridevi from Zumari Talaiyya is going to follow what science needs her to follow!
Why I omitted Arts and Commerce, even, postgraduates?
Take a hypothetical situation. If you are marooned on an island or in a jungle. and If you are M.A. in economics with Honors, or PhD in Marathi literature, your principles of economics or comparison of Shakespeare's King Lear with V.V. Shirwadkar's 'Nat Samrat' is not going to help, it would be science that would help you to survive !. Literature for intellectual satiety is luxury, comes into picture only when everything is going good physically! Science is life, commerce and arts come much later!
Right from the day one, when you are conceived in the mother's womb till the date you breathe your last, it's nothing but science, science and science ! You come to know about commerce and Arts much much later, so it is imperative that every individual living, MUST have basic knowledge of science, mostly about his own body and to my utter disappointment the very fact, lacks profoundly in Indians, not aware of their western or developed counterparts, as did not have much chance to interact with them! But whatever I gather from the media, those are available at my disposal, they seem to be better off!
And it does not apply to the science of life alone. Right from the minute you get up in the morning, science starts playing the part. The mattress you slept on the previous night, bristles of your toothbrush, ingredients of your bathing soap, yarns and pattern of weaving used for making your shirt, the vehicle you ride to the office, everything, absolutely everything, when has science as a base, it makes life easier, so to have an interlude to enjoy Beethoven in the evening!
And to my utter surprise, most of the Indians are floating in the air when it comes to absolute pure knowledge. There is no zeal, zest or even curiosity to be enlightened. And if you are female, less said the better!
And it does not apply to the science of life alone. Right from the minute you get up in the morning, science starts playing the part. The mattress you slept on the previous night, bristles of your toothbrush, ingredients of your bathing soap, yarns and pattern of weaving used for making your shirt, the vehicle you ride to the office, everything, absolutely everything, when has science as a base, it makes life easier, so to have an interlude to enjoy Beethoven in the evening!
And to my utter surprise, most of the Indians are floating in the air when it comes to absolute pure knowledge. There is no zeal, zest or even curiosity to be enlightened. And if you are female, less said the better!
Thus the point is, in India your education on paper and your Intelligence [ in Hyphenation] just do not match! So we have a large number of the well-educated populace but truly intelligent one is coming by very rarely! And the woe is this rare truly intelligent one too, nowadays comes with a label!
We have ceased to be only experts in our respective fields. We have to have the tag. If you don't have it will automatically come but may be your displeasure. You can not plainly be intelligent only.
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