Management Corner
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Obsession for Obsolete
I
have previously expressed my feelings over the state of affairs of our society, current education system and governance which I’ve named as “Mindset Paralysis”, wherein I mentioned a few of the concerns about our education system which at present, is completely dissected from our real identity & values, and is producing an army of intellects that cannot be utilized for our country in real sense and way. I will try to elaborate my feelings about our education system in this writing in detail.
-Manoj Aswani
In order to utilize the manpower of this empire, a stern administrative and bureaucratic system was devised. Every person was supposed to do some work which they had to learn and pass through the system which was more or less similar to our present education system. The persons working on a task possessed such identical expertise that if you pick one of them from New Zealand and put him/her to work in Canada, he/she will be instantly functional. In order to have capabilities of such level, they had to be trained in the same manner across The state of disconnect of our the entire empire. education system from our past is over and above a system that is The Victorian empire devised in the DNA of our current ways of a system which was called I.C.S. learning in any educational institu- (Indian Civil Services) for our very tion. This system’s core lies in strin- own country. The people indulged gent assessment, competitive ex- in this system were supposed to ams, eligibility criteria so on and so become the part of that centralized forth. The one whose performance administrative and bureaucratic lags in this system’s competitive system which is functional till date, race is deemed as incompetent for where only the name has changed the society. I found that the origin i.e. IAS from ICS. This system is still of this system of assessment, dates as much stringent to get through as back to a few centuries. it was during the time of Victorian era. The irony is that it produces Three centuries ago, there was an army of intellects in the same the biggest and last empire of this fashion for an empire that no lonworld, which was known as Victorian ger exists. The youth of the nation Empire. This gigantic empire was a is obsessed to become a part of a very centralized way of functioning. system which is obsolete now. The