Random notes

Two things are happening in the education field of kerala.
1.The teaching community is asked to step down from the heights of teaching and they are being made facilitators whose only duty is to arrange proper facilities for the students who themselves should collect the data and informations necessary for thier studies.As a result, from a very early age students begin to nurse the wrong notion that they are the creators of knowledge.They feel that whatever has been so far achieved in the field of knowledge by the painful enquiries and efforts of generations is something that they could collect easily and put into use without much strain on thier part. Within a short period they begin to presume that to be able to talk pretentiously and superfluously on anything under the sun is a great virtue.They will also master the technquesof make believe in presenting seminar papers and preparing assignments.A baseless pride and arrongance follow these and reflect in social life as disrespect for almost all human values.
2. Literature and all forms of creative expressions in any field of knowledge are marginalised in the new syllabus.Creativity is looked down upon and the ability to collect informations from various fields is valued very much.The choice based credit system that has been implemented in colleges has created an aversion and contempt towards in-depth knowledge in any area of study and the students have become adomant in hailing peripheral knowledge as real knowledge.What the authorities want them to be is clear.They aim at creating a generation capable of floating freely without any serious concern about anything in a world controlled by the forces of free market.
The horrifyingly subversive changes taking place in the field of education have affected quite adversily all walks of social life in the state.The disbelief and tension swelling up in social psyche have made genuinely serious cultural activitiesand communication impossible. Except a very few NGOs no one is there to take up the burning issues in social life.NGOs have their own limitations.They are often controlled by unfair agencies whose real interests are always kept hidden.In Kerala which is considered a strong hold of left politics to be apolitical has become the ideal of a considerably large section of the people.