We are educated and, not educated, at the same time. If education can make us extremists, to me, it is a curse on education.Present day terrorism, Naxalism, NE insurgency,past Punjab violence etc are examples in India where the smart, educated youth made the lives of a common man miserable.Situation in other countries like China, Nepal, Italy, France or even USA is no exception. Where have we missed basically? youth or the system? To me, it is basically the education that needs a paradigm shift. Beginning is to be made byinculcating sensitivity and 'ethical values' in life, which is being ignored in today's education pattern.Every citizen is to be sensitive to the societal and national needs. We saw that India unites whenever there is external threat. But why not at the time of natural disasterm calamity, terrorism, insurgency, floods, ethnic violence and so on? Fault lies in education system also as is rotten.Neither the students nor the teachers opt for studies, except for career. Necessity is to inbibe the curiosity among the students to know the things, rather than enthrusting over them a bundle of information, which to him, has no relevance in life. Beginning has to be from the primary education level.Child should be left free to enjoy the nature and its beauty and express them to his imagination.Appreciating the sound of birds should creat anxiety within him to reproduce this sound on paper and thus the script sense.Likewise maths, science, bio, social sciences etc.
