Masters or Jacks?
Image Credits : Tapesh Sharma (Vibrant Echoes)
“Education System in India: Has the time come for its overhauling?”
Most of us are ‘Jack’ of all trades, ‘Master’ of none
Is it something to boast about? Who says- No one
Come on, folks! Let us welcome the brainstorming
For what accounts for lack of expert training
No such difference between toddlers and ponies
All credit for heavy bags and stuffed goodies
Young minds chiseled to value marks not the aptitude
Sought after qualitative becomes quantitative attitude
By nature, cherubs are immune to competitive spirit
Soon, they get prone to adjectives like guts and grit
Sprouting buds get confined into vortex of ‘divisions’
For they are moulded by parents’ dreams and visions
Irrespective of being a leader or a commander
Those in high grades are set as default ‘Monitor’
In the race, pupils of pupils constrict and dilate
No matter, if their interests and future gyrate
Their innate skills, do we recognize and harness
No, just propelling them into the ‘Grades furnace’
Son to become a lawyer, daughter to become a doctor
Can’t they decide to realize the dreams they foster
Present is to be nurtured for a better tomorrow
They will do what they love, marring any sorrow
Education and training are to go hand in hand
Then students will find a platform and stand
To be overhauled, extra-curricular and sports culture
Need of the hour, to celebrate skills at this juncture
Any society thrives upon the pool of skilled work force
To provide, lets light the flames to change the course
Whether to be an engineer, a soldier or a teacher
Domain expertise should be the prominent feature
Let’s judge a ward’s calibre at nascent stage
And shape the vase, right at the budding phase
After higher secondary, he can choose the stream
Even then up to graduation, no specific realm
Only when he gets into Masters, he becomes a ‘Master’
And gets into the groove to be a problem buster
What if, we tap early, the field of interests
We’ll get ‘Masters’ early, mostly soaring at crests
Expert brains are being drained over the years
Let’s retain and chisel plenty by shifting the gears
For sake of future, wake up, shun the lethargy
Let’s devise a ‘System’ with symbiosis and synergy
In early teens, allow them to bloom in the ‘System’
‘Masters’ to lead the charge, surely to be the dictum
Will get ‘Jack’ of some trades and ‘Master’ of some
Chords of Nation’s progress will be all set to strum
Masters or Jacks? – Vibrant Echoes
