Protesting youth, non-accepting elders, or a stubborn, achievement-oriented system. Whom will you blame? What you are seeing on the streets of Delhi and Mumbai is not hypocrisy but a long-due internal conflict that the NEET paper leak has given shape.
It is definitely not the fault of the youth who are full of aspirations and ambitions for multiple reasons. But we have to understand it is not the fault of the government either. We as a society have only valued visible, physical development and trade since independence. We have given more importance to academic achievement, money, and careers, rather than relationships, generation after generation. And did not the elected government fulfill all of it?
But if our needs just do not stop, what will the government do? The person who leaked the paper is as much a culprit as the person who used those leaked papers for personal gain. Isn’t it so? Now, how many will you punish? How many will resign? And what about the leaked papers that never came out? Maybe there are innumerable doctors, lawyers, engineers, and whatnot who have benefitted through such papers. Will you suspend all of them? What if your own parents are one of them?
What we see today is a culmination of our own biased thoughts. Giving more importance to achievement, at every cost.
Even in day-to-day decisions and everyday life, we always think our children should do this so they can make more money. Once they start making a good amount of money, their lives are set. Did we not do this? Unfortunately, that good amount never came. And in search of that good amount, people are postponing all their life decisions like marriage and children.
Again, our biased thought processes and incomplete knowledge lead us to give too much importance to either the lower needs or the higher needs of Maslow’s hierarchy theory. And completely ignoring the balancing part of affiliations. This has been the extreme unconscious behavior of the generations, which has culminated in such things.
And now, due to global conditions, uncertainty, economic turmoil, excessive media use, and a lack of human interaction, the youth is terribly insecure. They cannot associate with any stage of Maslow’s theory :-)) and are lost. They need our support more than ever. But not in fault-finding and showing the supremacy of your experience. But a thorough understanding of their wants across all levels of society, starting from family. And a realignment of needs and expectations across all levels.
Lathi charge won’t wipe off our karmas. There is an urgent need to reform the entire education system: make it more balanced, for the individual as well as the society. And trust me, what is visible on the streets today is just its beginning.
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