Education
and its quality is one factor that decides & impacts the quality of socio
economic life a person leads. Naturally every parent aspires for
the best in education for his children,especially in India where there is
virtual hand holding till at least the graduate level. Now if you think, this
is the trend only amongst the educated parents, you are in for surprise.
In
a survey conducted in the Hyderabad slums, it was found out that 65% parents
sent their children to private schools. This fact was more or less corroborated
by my own experience, while interviewing post graduate students (MSc) in the
prestigious Andhra University campus at Vizag. I found that a large number
(almost majority) including girls hailed from small villages and whose parents
were laborers surviving on daily wages. The grit, the determination, and the
mindset of these uneducated parents make the thinking of pseudo intellectuals
like us look pedestrian.
Now
who is a real intellectual? The uneducated intellectuals more than deserve the
few lines that I have dedicated to them. more...
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