Quality education for all human

Delivering 'Problem-Solvers' to the world, Continuous upgradation of the average level of knowledge and skills of the society, Providing fair opportunities of learning to all human empowering them to live happily and to contribute something for the welfare of the humanity are the main objectives of an education system. The evaluation of current schooling and university education systems on these parameters puts a big question mark on the fundamental principles, objectives, methodology and other aspects of these systems. Though, the performance of a few premier schools, universities and institutes are comparatively better, but good quality intake in these institutes is the primary reason behind it. Nevertheless, the limited capability of serving a small group of students and unfeasible replication are the main drawback of these models which rule out its prospects of becoming a system for ensuring quality education for all human.

Looking into known Indian history, the success stories of Chandragupta Mourya, Shivaji, Swami Vivekananda, etc. illustrates the capabilities of ancient Indian education system and the importance of Guru-Shishya relationship. The famous saying of Sant Kabir further underlines it. Well defined end points, blind devotion and faith of shishyas, extraordinary gurus who used to develop the customized course of training stretched over a long period of their association, are some of the interesting features of this system. Very poor scalability and 'Chicken-Egg' kind of problem in finding Gurus and Shishyas of aforementioned qualities restrict switching back to this education system too.

We are now compelled to think afresh. I wonder, if a uniform framework of education for all human in the world can be developed. It should make available all resources for educating all human, irrespective of their geographical location, language and GDP of their countries. I am surely talking about something much beyond the online courses/workshops, distance education, video lectures, virtual labs or other such available technologies. May the best brains of the world raise themselves above the nationalism, start thinking 'out of box' and deliver a new framework for educating the children, young and old people of the world in near future.

You deserve little more

'You deserve little more', is indeed a mantra which has the power of producing tremendous motivation. It generates great bindings of love, respect and faith. Highest level of honesty, analytic power, confidence and right emotions are needed in effectively using this mantra for energizing others. Also, the individuals at receiving end need courage to act and get benefited. If you never experienced it, then it is surely a call for introspection. However, in the current era, selfish persons may misuse this mantra for personal gains, some people may adopt the greedy approach and other such aspects require the wisdom for identifying the right call. In any case, the number of people possessing the opinion, 'he deserves little more' about a person surely reflects his current performance and capabilities.

I am still trying to learn the skills of using this mantra on others, but on the receiving side and at different stages of life, I have experienced it several times. Tough livelihood during upbringing, the struggling college days, challenging initial years of employment and beyond, whenever I gave up, a different set of people told me, 'you deserve little more'. Each time it triggered a new cycle of raising the bar little higher, preparing hard and keeping perseverance till success. I now understand that the life is just a collection of such cycles. The ability of quickly completing the current cycle and enhancing the number of quality well-wishers enable a person to undertake proportionally more number of such cycles in his life span. The carrier graphs of the individuals surely reflect this proportion. Some extraordinary persons are capable of simultaneously handling several such cycles and/or adding extra attributes in each of these cycles. I wonder, if a mechanism can be developed for rating the life of a person by appropriately weighing all such cycles undertaken by him in his lifetime.

All parents, siblings, true friends, relatives, teachers and colleagues should develop the skill of stating, 'You deserve little more' in most unbiased way. Though, it consumes a lot of energy and time, but this is the best gift what everyone can give to his beloved.