Who is the Culprit?
Today I went to the town with a close friend/bhaiya of mine. Lets name him Karan for the sake of simplicity and privacy(though most of the people around me will know it from the details).
I had met him when we started playing of Age Of Empires II (Conquerors Expansion). One of my friends said that he was the pro player in our college…
We got n touch and were soon discussing details of the game. All known strategies, timings etc. Soon I realized that he is a great guy and that I really appreciated a lot of things in him. One of which being that he always took sane and right decisions based on morality and rationality and didnt fake for who he wasnt. With time I knew him more and figured out things like he didnt care for the middle path generally he either chose to follow a rule or to break it completely because that felt like faking to him.
So we went to the town and he was searching for some cyber cafe there. I couldnt get the point of coming to the town to look for a cyber cafe when you have 2 back papers everyday…
I got my answer soon. We entered a cafe, it was a small room just enough to hold 3 cabins and a photocopier. Karan asked the shop owner for his microcopy!!
For a few seconds I couldn’t get the point of what was going on, because Karan would never cheat. Not in a hundred years, no. The shop owner hadn’t done the copies yet. We went to the ATM, got some money out, went to our favourite bakery, had some grilled sandwiches and my favourite pastry. Then on my way back, I remembered the brief talk we had the day before. He wanted to do a lot of things in his life and this constant fear of getting another year back was taking its toll. with atleast 9 out of 13 papers to clear and with 2 papers everyday for 3 straight days he didn’t have much of an option. He just couldn’t leave anything to chance this time. I hadn’t seen a bit of confidence in him in the whole past year except for when he played his guitar or played AOE with us.
The system had successfully broken another man into feeling that a little corruption doesn’t hurt. Suddenly, the whole meaning of having back papers changed.
Do we have back papers so that we understand and learn the subject better or are they in place so that someone who has atleast some bit of goodness in him left starts turning into the monster he sees in everyone around him?
Who is to be blamed here? The student who broke under this pressure and otherwise hates his course and this college? The parents of the student who cant let him quit this place even when they can see that this place is literally killing their son just because its a shame to be a drop out? The teachers who are more concerned in showing students how stupid, useless and irresponsible they are rather than really making efforts to understand and resolve issues that students face and help them overcome their barriers? The system of education which focuses on teaching things that are available at the touch of a button on google rather than things that we cant find on the Internet and need to cultivate within ourselves? Or the society which doesn’t let students learn things that they really enjoy and makes them run the stupid rat race?
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