How Educated are you?? Don't tell the degree .....

So apparently today is the birth anniversary of "Maria Montessori", the creator of montessori system of 

education which is so very popular even today. Curious by the various hoardings and schools boasting of following it. Finally I followed the link of the google doddle  to check a few details of the program. Only thing which crowds my mind after reading that is- how strange that centuries have passed but still education system fails to evolve to the needs of time !! Interests of trade and maybe some system dominate the need and requirement of the era...

Well few days back I was watching firefly, a TV series based on the fact that the world is now into some future governed by machines and high tech gadgets.. the war, the warriors, the bad and good all characters 

are there...Just that now they don't fight for kingdoms or Gold..but the highest rated commodities are bare necessities of life..as in Food, medicines, water and protein....

Though I was supposed to enjoy it, as suggested by a friend that U'll like the series..yet it somehow frightened me...Every morning when I see stupid girls wasting away water..while they are brushing their teeth..unaware that while they need just two mugs of water...here they are wasting a consistent stream of water for two minutes..just because its easily available to you now???

Here a very good work is being done by atleast one center's student on the state of existence of rural people and they actually spent a fair amount of time researching and living , identifying and modelling that ..But its of concern that at the end of the day they don't have resources to transform the situation ..by helping in settingup water recharging pits all around the village....educating them on proper waste management...or create ample awareness to the need of it...
What is it that binds education to the walls of paper and thesis..why can't  it be practiced as it is learnt?

I am sure almost each of these super educated tech kids around must have written atleast fifteen times on the importance of conserving natural resources...yet here it is restricted, written and locked away in those papers ..and the resources are wasted as if it was all too theoretical to be real........

Having witnessed the water scarcity myself, I can imagine when they say " third world war will be for water" they are not kidding!! Then the question remains..why is nobody helping it out? Each year we still wait for the mercy of monsoon which soon passes and dread of summer days hangs on the heads of crores of people..wish I had a proper statistical figure for it ... 

When Montessori devised ways to read and learn using creative ways which included getting in touch with the immediate surroundings as in gardens, plants, pets, exercise and flower arrangement -- she must have thought how the learning is related to the environment. 

But here we are with years of education, still unaware of most of the names of the trees  around, unaware of birds that chirp or used to chirp all around, unaware of how to take care and use the resources judicially, unaware 

how to conserve resources, help construct water recharging pit, plant trees as per environment..best way to do it most efficiently...and yes we are the most educated of the lot...

Ofcourse we can code to give the virtual water reservoir..we can make flowers bloom on the virtual screen..we can produce the sound of somewhat chirp of birds by speech processing..atleast those in that field can..we can direct the useful tons of data messages across oceans...

But wait a minute..did I told you we are supposedly educated?? Educated !!!Does it even has some dictionary meaning ...of what exactly it refers to??

I have no idea...ofcourse I can google..and that's what we do..Google.. n I am sure there must be answers lying all across to these questions...but ofcourse I am lazy. oops our education demands me to code and debug something else..and thats all my job role is..isn't it?

Food? water? air? pollution free environment? greenery? - ofcourse somebody must be assigned these fields to study and correct for rest all...isn't it? otherwise how could a system so old...created by some unknown natural phenomenon - still survive in fairly good shape..despite the senseless conduct of ultra educated people. Poor uneducated people, do they still know how to sow the seeds  and produce food for the other educated beings?

 Well this has been on my mind from quite sometime -the wide gap between education and reality in society. So here am I jotting down tid-bits of it...but its too naive to be of any help..wish there was a person to devise and change the facet of education to make it closer to reality and to serve the purpose it is supposed to be serving, which is ofcourse not just providing job securities...but making people aware and better equipped to manage and live their life...

We will still manage to have food and water for most part of our life before we die..but what will happen next?? if education remains this way, I am not so sure...