Learning beyond the classroom - part II

From a post of an MBA Lady of XLRI posted on Linkedin

"A close friend of mine is an IRS officer. And I recently went to meet her at a fancy government office in the heart of Delhi.

The guard at the gate asked me what I wanted. I said I was there to meet a friend.

He rudely asked me to go find another gate.

So I left and started to look around for this elusive 'other' gate.

Immediately another guard came and started shouting at me for loitering. He insisted that I leave immediately.

In a fix, I called my friend to come down.

And the moment she came and gave me a big hug, I was suddenly transformed into royalty.

I was now being treated with extreme courtesy – even deference.

Someone helped me into the lift. Someone else insisted on opening the car door for me.

I was exactly who I'd been 3 minutes ago. And yet, to them, I became a completely different person.

And this may just seem like a typical 'sarkari' thing to happen, but the truth is that we all do it.

We use our inherent biases to decide almost everything.

Whom we hire, whom we promote, and whom we trust.

Whom we open the car door for – and whom we shoo away from the gate.

So the next time we are the gatekeepers, maybe we can make a conscious effort to see beyond our biases.

To see people for who they truly are – and not just the baggage they come with."

This was my response to her:

aapko malum nahi aisey situation kayse handle karte hain... mujhe bhi kuch patay nahi tha. phir dhire dhire aankhe khulne laga... aur reality pata chala... phir ye sare tarikh pe tarikh lawyear kaysa hota hain, phir ye sare income tax ke logo ki ware mein jo gaon wala baatein karte hain uska thoda example kejri ji ne sunaya, phir pata chala police department mein kayse posting auction hota hain, aur ye sare cheese ka account kayse chori bazar se khrida hua MS- excel mein calculate hota hain, kayse bujurg log jhamela se nikalne ke liye haddi deta hain, aur ye sare ke sare cheese pata chala... phir ye sab kayse handle karna parta hain... kahan pe ghamandi kahan pe thoda muskan, aur kahan pe girls low necked dress pahante hain, sab malum hua... matlab life mein thoda senior ban gaya. to ayse mahal mein kaysa bolna chaiye . woh bhi bujurg ne sikhaya

to thoda iss haal mein aapko bolna chaye tha ki...

"aap log chinta mat karo...wapas jane ke time aap sab logo ko khush kar dungi..."

itna chota sa dialog agar aap emotion ke ssath, aankhon mein aankhein daal ke, voice mein thoda njuk hote hue hue bol dete ...

matlab jo boltein hain na ... narikala ... uoh college mein sikh leta ... sayyed aapko jo experience yaahaan pe describe kiya uoh na karna parta…

dekho boss, aisey kuch der nahin hua... mere yaad hain, purana Bengali newspaper mein kuch kuch ladies ek advertisement dete the...

Learn Bashikaran Mantra...

meaning how to tame a person...

woh sayed iss technology mein expert hain...

sikho boss...

sabse sikho...

open your mind...

Reality check: the futility of classroom education

From the above two discussions, what can a sane person learn?

If I answer you with my recent awakening, this may not sound good to many people of #bharat, and maybe I will be subjected to harassment or whatever by the so-called purist, but, as a #guru of my young son, I have to take up this reality check of the uselessness of classroom education and then you will surely understand why I have discarded all of my past experience and my engineering degree as I consider all these things were just the sheer wastage of my energy and it worked just to camouflage the real me from the outside world instead of showing my real version - the #whoami

Now let us juxtapose two of such famous political people of modern #bharat and then you will surely realize, that the training needs to be aligned with the change in the perception of the modern society…

The first one :

an absolute diligent student - may be an expert in statistics, bayesian econometrics, and all of the modern economic theories - who had worked as a senior economist in many top international monetary bodies, who probably, while studying very hard under the open sky of #punjab, under the feeble light of a lantern, roamed the field of his village barefoot, and then went to the USA to do research and gathered all such esoteric knowledge which is really unimaginable for a common person of #bharat - thought one day he would be the change maker to see his nation move ahead.

But could not really understand the reality of the universe.

So in the process, lost his voice of sanity, maybe out of fear and surrendered to the poison of an absolute a**-hole lady, who probably did not have the power to fathom his knowledge and wisdom and made him just a joker.

Such a feeble joker, that one statesman of a neighboring nation dared to call him a #dehatiauraut in an international forum in front of the camera.

And all of the people of #bharat just watched, maybe with disdain, but could not help him move out from the poisonous snake hole

The second one :  

the poisonous snake who never thought about education at all and never cared about being educated, as we, the middle-class families know as education, but learned the real game-changing mantra of the powerplay - how much poison to inject in which situation and to whom, whom to pick up as a shield, how to play the role of a bahu of #bharat without even caring for getting the citizenship of #bharat, how to create the camouflage to blind the poor and the uneducated farmers, how to keep the educated middle class happy with the masala wala haddi (the tasty bone), and what kind of masala to use for the haddi based upon the geography, and make it all under the guise of the #sacrifice just to keep the seat  warm by the former voiceless joker, so that when her own joker-son would become adult may be at the age of 65, would sit on the hot seat to rule over the blind people of #bharat

So rather than depending upon the education of statistics, literature, or philosophy, she learned how to dance around a pole to impress a gullible pilot of a cargo plane

So now you understand - who was smarter among those two and who actually won the Game Of  Life…

This is for the Reality Check of Education...

Do we need any classroom training anymore in #bharat and if we need what kind of changes in the syllabus do you suggest...

this is the question for the #universe to ponder upon...

Last but not the least...

if anyone wants to open such a department in any university to teach this

Bashikaran Mantra - or how to tame a person

which will be an exclusive women-oriented department, here is a suggestion from a #guru of #bharat to keep a statue of Urvashi or Menoka as they were probably the oldest specialist in this art form.

I can suggest recruiting a few professors -  the profile of whom you can easily get on LinkedIn

I know few such international female artists who may be recruited as a guest lecturers - one may be the Chinese ambassador planted in Nepal a few months back, and another one may be the foreign minister of a neighboring country, I have no idea about the current status of any of them because of my limited knowledge.  But I am sure we have many experts in this field who can help the Government in this endeavor.