education

Yes education. You know, my university is in a very sad sorry state. Oh no... not because the labs there are dim and dinghy, or the lecturers are dumb and boring; I must say they do offer commendable services and quite amazing lecturers. Yet, I feel the whole place a sad and sorry place. Why? Because everywhere I turn, I find that people are there because they want good grades. Even the lecturers join in the foray of teaching according to what the exams will ask! Never mind if they teach and stress on important topics oftenly tested in the exams, but no - some of them actually use the past year examinations and teach according to it! Like some biblical fidelity!

Everyone seems to accept this: we're here to get the A, they would reply. What happened to learning? What happened to education? What happened to passion? The most horrific aspect of this whole senseless paper chase is the lack of passion in these students. They want to be pharmacists, actuarists, engineers, accountants and doctors not because of their immense love for immunology, beautiful harmony of mathematical equations and saving people's lives. They have such ambitions because they see a life they want to have: of earthly materialistic things! mere things! A want-to-be biologist can speak so plainly about cells like they were things! What happened to the brutal amazing journey of evolution? What happened to the immense mysteries of the DNA? Where, O Where is the passion?!

They have joined in the rat race, the paper chase, the money run. I hope I don't join them - I want to remain as I am now. Standing by the sidelines while looking upon the rush and dazzle of colours streaking by; not fast enough to grasp their careers, not slow enough to be able to see the passing colours as a painting; I can only gaze on dizzily. Everything to them is just a blur... a blur, a blur, a blur. And in trying to fathom such phenomena, everything to me becomes a blur, blur, blur profuse rapture of non-distinct colours. Part of the crowd, part of them, and part of the physical world they shall be. Adieu!