#1 Education system- the systemic flaw

The horrid 1800s, a time when practices such as dowry system, child marriage, slavery and sati were still prevalent. It was around this time the British Raj had introduced laws like Criminalisation of homosexuality (section 377). It was during this sacrilege; the Indian education system was ushered in. The one we follow even today.
While almost every law of this time was abolished sooner or later,the education system continued to grow deeper into our conscience. Albeit, knowing that the British had designed the system for their personal growth, to boost their economy, to serve their throne, to empty the Indian land off its beauty, resources and power, we chose to forget it and continued to pursue their educational system. Even after 73years of independence, we could never really be independent. The only factor that stopped the tree from growing was the root itself. Our education system was anything but faulty.
The education system enforced on definition than understanding. We were taught our fundamental rights but our duties were deliberately ignored. We were taught not to discriminate while our differences went unnoticed or at times supressed. We put every animal on the same track and expected it to run. Those that failed were disregarded. Those who succeeded, were rewarded with a life time of misery. A life they didn’t choose, but were forced to live. While the rest of the world found it excruciating to follow their own dreams, the students were asked to live someone else’s. While they called this way of life secure, what they failed to consider was, a deer is safe in a zoo, but it doesn’t belong there. There is a difference between security and confinement. We were confined. Like the animal loses its will to escape its prison over time,we lost the will to dream. Like the Shawshank prisoners, we were institutionalised to this way of life. Only the Andy Dufresne among us succeeded, who we all looked up to but fail to learn from.
The almighty, gifted us all with a brain to think, to learn and to dream. The education system and the society it created, took away all of them from us. Memory became a synonym of intelligence, individuality was killed every day, those who successfully escaped were called magic or menace. Everybody here wanted to earn money, but not all were capable of doing it. Those who did, had learnt to dream, think and believe. Those who couldn’t, ended up blaming the rich for their failure.
Thses weren’t the only problems this system had led to. Problems like sexual harassment, gender bias, discrimination and other transgressional activities were also indirectly connected to this system. Though the system might be having its own benefits, but over time even the sweetest of fruits, rot. The system has been present for over two centuries and will take at least a decade to be eradicated. In the meanwhile, we must learn to think, dream and above all BELEIVE.