The mind-boggling corruption and malpractices that take place in education sector - which was, at least for me, sacred. A teacher has more power than parents to influence a child and teach him the right and wrong, but as you go up into the college section, university, man, I was so shocked!
I have been inspired by all my teachers so far, all of them have been most balanced people. I wanted to teach at UG.
But, it's so fucking depressing. Reservations, lobbying, corruption!
This lady I knew worked as a principal at an 'Arts, Science & Commerce' college and in all five years, she rejected every fucking proposal (usually to hold seminars, conferences) made by humanities department, just to discourage them and shut down. The college had BA German, Geography, Russian, Philosophy, Maths, Statistics. All shut down and now has those BAF, BMM courses now. This is their way to cut out all monetary benefits which a department deserves and then deprive them of it and shut it down entirely.
Heck, even for revaluation of marks at Mumbai university, you have to mention on the revaluation form if you are Open/ SC/ ST/ NT/ DT/ OBC/ whatever.
Humanities = for dumb kids = only rote learning = long answers.
FUCKING NO.
I went to an interdisciplinary summer school at Europe and I couldn't even write one thing of my own. Why? Cause when I was asked the reasons of battle of Panipat, I puked all I knew. But, when I was asked 'what challenges do the modern historian face when using historical documents (regardless of it's age)?' I couldn't say a word. How could I? I was never taught that way. I cried on Skype in front of my mom and she was equally dumbstruck. I was barely 16 and other international kids were surprised that I was never taught that way.
Thanks to my mom who, despite people called her names behind her back, supported me and let me chose humanities. It's shit hell, leave India if you want to get into teaching and/ or research.
I wanted to leave India at UG, but for that, my mom would have to take loan. Also, summer school was equally great as money spent was much less and it was indeed an eyeopener for me.
Now, I have realized that my BA won't have any worth (even though my average for last 5 semesters is 83%), because, no dissertation, no skills, thankfully, I have attended many MANY international and national conferences and seminars and have met really "big" people - most of them who advised to leave India.
Meanwhile, I will be just going on with MA now, that'll make it 17 years + a dissertation, cause that's what you do at MA. I am already a fluent speaker of Spanish (DELE C1) and now getting my hands on German.
I have just lost all the respect I had for education sector.