RACE – RAPID ACCESS TO ACE EDUCATION (10-June-2022)
RACE – Rapid-access to ACe Education Abracadabra, the rarest of rare sights! Education should have been spared but that was not to be. Enter the rat race and one is bound to see unhealthy competition. It appears an offshoot of the peer pressure that has transcended borders, families, gender, and what not! ‘Rat race’ is today the omnipresent truth. Look at the loving parents shepherding their ‘generation-of-tomorrow’ young ones into coaching classes at unearthly hours. This is for a ‘make-believe’ short-cut to success which catapults their wards into the career-path of choice – mind you mostly the parents’ choice! One is left to wonder where this is leading us! Does the student choose the stream of choice, or blindly follow what is chosen by parents? Student is at the crossroads when he reaches first the 10 th grade and then the 12 th grade and is misled by “Opportunity never knocks twice,” “Make hay while the sun shines.” The pr...