The System

For last few days I have been reading about students in schools committing suicides.
And the weird part is its only January. The exams are not even close let alone the results. The pressure that a 15-17 year student bears is evident from this situation.

Parents are blaming the schools for this, yesterday I saw on news Kapil Sibbal blaming the parents for this. But I believe neither of them are as much responsible as the system. I believe that it is the system that causes schools and parents both to pressurize the student into doing things that shouldn’t be done.

Starting from the very beginning of our education we are taught to stick to the curriculum. If u have a hobby its good but u have to stick to the curriculum. The subjects that we want to study are pre decided by the system. If you want to study science it means you can earn more money while working and if you want to study arts than u will probably earn less money later on. This is the only incentive one is given when he has to choose his or her subjects.

Somebody tell me that how the hell a 13 year old is supposed to decide which field he should take unless he is given proper exposure to most of them which in our system adds up to engg., medical and commerce or he is given a proper incentive like work satisfaction other than money and parents happiness.

Parents and teachers also play their part. The part of teacher is discouraging everyone who wants to venture in some new field and parents’ part is to make their child believe that the only thing that can give them happiness is there son excelling strictly in academics.

The basic definition of our system which I have deduced is if a child can study x amount then why not x+1 it will be better for his future. But when everyone starts reading x+1 then why not x+2. Slowly this amount becomes x+y where y becomes much more than x and can be written as y = (intensive coaching classes + more and more practice – all the fun that a child of his age should experience – exposure – co curricular activities – hobbies and other interests).


Some people do thrive under these conditions, good for them, but not everyone are those people. These people are made examples which our well wishers ranging from our neighbours to our distant relatives use to motivate us or in turn pressurize us all the time.

When some of them do reach their planned destination they realize that they didn’t want to do what they have worked their whole life for. But now it’s too late and nothing can be done.

And the front for this bloody scam is our system produces the best technical brains in the world. Of course we do that. When somebody uses his technical part of the brain from the very beginning then surely he would have good technical brain. But finally the only thing left is the brain without any heart in it.

U won’t call that guy a smart guy but a geek because the only thing can do is something related to the brain. He might face difficulty in interacting with others because there are something that cannot be taught in a class where he has spent his entire life.