WHO WILL CRAFT A BETTER FUTURE? MY ANSWER IS OUR YOUNG GENERATIONS. ONLY THEY NEED TO BE GIVEN A FREE MIND, A FREE HAND, AND A FREE WORLD
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand
Growing minds, students in 3rd to 8th standard are clean slates, who, like glassware, need neat handling. Our syllabus masters think that they need to be fed everything that is necessary to be a successful part of this society. So, their clean minds, which do not know anything about jealousy, hatred, killings, and destructions, are very masterfully filled with wars and battles of history, which were full of bloodshed, deception and mental and moral corruption.
Logically, it cannot be denied that kids are being trained to live in a cut-throat world of competition, and while young they must learn the arts of winning the battle of life. I sometimes wonder what happens to the mind of a young student of 4th standard when he learns about partition, or the invasion of Alexander over India. When they grow up a little, we have Ahmed Shah Abdali, Padmawati, and the Jauhar. Do they really need this information? Are we training them for this bad world?
Our school saints want that we must force down their throats every bit of information, and then, put them to test, award them certificates, oblivious of what they have lost in this processed education: They have lost their faith in goodness, in being nice, in staying happy. What they have learnt is human history has mastered the principle of Might is Right. Truth has no future. Goodness has no page. Right has no chapter. All the books are dedicated to evil, war, bloodshed, corruption and immoral conduct of human beings. This is the truth of history and the young kids must know it at the earliest in their career. Thanks great minds!
Can’t we handle the glassware with a little extra care?
Where is the necessity to be a tell-all to a student who does not know anything about hatred, murders, killings and human deprivations? If this is the reality of our world, and the administrators think it must be taught to the youngest lot, how can we expect a better crop of people to take over, particularly, when there is no apparatus to make higher thought possible?
Don’t we want a better world? If the world is not good, and we think it should be better, it means we were not good craftsmen. Our parents also failed in giving us a better system. We are helplessly being used as tools of this evil system. We know how bad our world has been, and we know how evil is at work.
THE BIG QUESTION IS: DO WE WANT THE THINGS TO CONTINUE? DO WE NOT WANT A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER? IF WE FILL THE MINDS OF THE YOUTH WITH THE DIRT OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT, HOW WILL THEY CONCEIVE OF A BETTER FUTURE?
FINALLY THE QUESTION IS: WHO WILL CRAFT A BETTER FUTURE? MY ANSWER IS OUR YOUNG GENERATIONS. ONLY THEY NEED TO BE GIVEN A FREE MIND, A FREE HAND, AND A FREE WORLD. LET US NOT TAINT THEIR MINDS WITH EVIL, TREACHERY, DIRT AND GUILE WHICH IS THE STUFF OF OUR HISTORY, PAST AND PRESENT.
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Dr. Jernail Singh Anand is President of the International Academy of Ethics. With an opus of 180 plus books, he is Laureate of the Seneca, Charter of Morava, Franz Kafka and Maxim Gorky awards. His name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. Email: anandjs55@yahoo.com
