Indian education is creating nothing but slaves.

This happened long back when I was working as a scientist in one of India's most prestigious organization. Well,  here is the story.

My colleague is on leave. His son's term examination is tomorrow.  Yesterday when we met he looked very worried.

Looks worried!  Anything wrong?

"Hey tomorrow is my son's term examination. He should  be scoring good marks"

Why am I am not worried I thought, my son is also studying in the same class. There may be something wrong with me. Did I ever looked at his marks? Probably I am one of that irresponsible fathers.

" I will be on leave tomorrow, if something comes up please take care for me".

Sure, but you said you were taking him for tutions. Does that not help? I do not want to do his work, so I am trying to persuade him to come to office tomorrow.

" Well, Yes I am taking him to tutions everyday at 4AM. There is tution in the evening too. But you know we need to be very careful at this age"

What am I doing?  When was the last time I woke up at 4AM. Oh,, yes a few days back when I heard a noise from my son's room. I went there to look and found that it was  only cat. My son was still sound asleep, did he ever woke up at 4AM?

Half of the office is on leave today. I am happy to see a few of my colleagues at their table.

"Hey why are you here? When is your son's examination?"

How the hell I know that? Did we ever discussed about examination at home? Whenever he is with me he would like to hear a story or he will have a few questions about a few things that he had learned from his friends. Did he ever discussed anything about his studies?

Now I am worried. Am I not a good parent? Do I understand parenting and its duties? What I do is to have fun with my children.When will the children have any fun otherwise?  The school in which my children are studying looks to be very strict. Does not look like they have any fun at school.  My children spends a lot of time in watching TV and spends a lot of time on computer. That is wrong too. Am I failed parent?

 This is past now, the worries are a thing past now. My children has found their way in the maze of life.

Recently I had a hot discussion with somebody about having no innovations in our society. He says

"There is no real R&D happening in our country. They are just copying this from others"

No wonder. Is this not what we taught them? They copied everything from their tuition masters. They did a lot of mugging up to score high marks.  How can they be different now?  We have not told them to think and select their own ways. We took them to tutions, we told them when to get up and when to sleep, we selected what they have to study and we also selected their life partners.
Perfect it s not?