School or Bhool

Again a conversation with my pretty neighbourhood aunt made me realise the defunct and dysfunctional times we live in....the aunt in question has a 2.5 year old kid and she was looking out for a school for her...now the question arose which school is the best....the school closest to our place (the school where i studied) was mentioned by me and her response was "i don't want my kid to study in the Maharashtra board"....

So my response was then where do you want your kid to go....and off she went how bad the Maharashtra education board and how good a ICSE and CBSE was....she even went to the extent of saying she was looking for a school with a Australian board affiliation...

All this forces me to think about the times we live in..where the school the kid goes to is important but the education you give to him is not important...tats the biggest school the kid has....his family....tats where the greatest education happens...observing how your parents and elders behave....i am not against sending a kid to the best of schools...all i am against is that we forget that instilling right values in kids is more important than the school he goes to...there is a friend of mine who stays in Mira road but sends his kid to dhirubhai ambani school in bandra kurla complex.....i mean the kid spends half his life travelling...when does he speak to his parents, when does he play, when does he live his life as a kid....

I am not against sending a kid to the best of schools...all i am against is the farce we participate in the name of schooling...a kid who wants to study will study in the worst of schools...i went to a school from Maharashtra board but never have felt tat as a roadblock in any part of my life....

As they say " a child educated only at school is an uneducated child"

bye till the next time....


PS;- its that time of the year where i think and introspect about the year gone by...and create some new year resolutions...dont want to party and celebrate the new year this time around...want to jus pray for the departed souls of 26/11....