Educational indifference

What does education really mean and why is it needed? The graduate level courses of majority of colleges never really provide a comprehensive real life value addition. The doctoral and post graduate courses are the important ones which support the expansive needs of the current society as they are based of off research and development based studies. In reality, these are sciences which offer the possibility of practically being derived on the basis of postulated theories.

But the real question remains unresolved. Countries like India which had an advanced system of education have either forgotten the roots and core values or were indirectly forced to adopt newer systems based on a systemic breakdown of its vedic heritage. So would a new career in management be positively influenced by getting a Master's degree in business management? The answer lies in the quality of the edu-system, which is generally presumed to keep on increasing in value and is directly proportional to the course's tuition fee.

India has a very long way to go before it can consistently produce highly regarded astrophysicists and Nobel laureates. The amount of work done and the quality of research apparently varies a lot along with the stature of the academy sponsoring that work. Its no wonder then, that one of the greatest mathematicians ever, was the product of studying under a street lamp, burning midnight oil.

Srinivasa Ramanujan was that great mathematician who made history inspite of his humble beginnings and won accolades from his contemporaries for his contributions in the field of applied mathematics.

Srinivasa Ramanujan passed away at the ripe age of 32 due to tuberculosis and was known to be theorizing and scribbling notes upto just four days before death. Times Magazine rightly wrote: “There is something peculiarly sad in the spectacle of genius dying young, dying with the first sweets of recognition and success tasted, but before the full recognition of powers that lie within. The achievement of Ramanujan was so great that those who can really grasp the work of Ramanujan ‘may doubt that so prodigious a feat had ever been accomplished in the history of thought’.