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The Educated Illiterates..

Discussion in 'Snippets of Life (Non-Fiction)' started by incarnation, Aug 27, 2010.

  1. incarnation

    incarnation Silver IL'ite

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    I was having my morning walk and pat came something mucilaginous chewed morsel almost on me from second floor of a nearby flat..Shea...
    I blurted "Educated Illiterates.."
    That is what I call many of people I see around..
    Now what an oxymoron ...No , I mean it literally....

    Have you seen in India some educated person throwing garbage out of the car..

    Have you seen an educated housewife keeping her house spotless clean and throwing all the filth in the gali the nukkad(corner of the street)...and an illiterate sweeper on road shouting to not to do that...

    Have you seen parents educating her daughter to very high levels , engineer , doctor and not allowing her to work...
    Just to take away the chance of another aspiring candidate...

    Have you seen educated people jump into swimming pool in full salwar suit and saree .. even though there is board immediately there prohibiting that.

    Have you seen educated people jumping red signal or riding bike on footpath .. whereas same people are the most law abiding folks when they reach Europe/US. how come when they reach India suddenly their souls are jiggled and changed.


    Have you seen educated people believing in crap traditions.

    Have you seen educated people swaying their plastic and non degradable stuff in rivers/lakes/sea after finishing Puja.

    Have you seen educated Uncle , aunty , youngsters plucking flowers from your society beautification plants

    Have you seen educated people playing jarring and blaring music for a simple Puja / New year , It is so loud that you cannot understand what is playing...Not everybody is enjoying too..

    Another one : Have you seen people washing street outside their house with precious Muncipality provided Drinking water..additionally washing away the bitumen laid roads.

    Educated people planning lowly acts of murder...

    And ofcourse you have seen educated people demanding and giving dowry..the more educated the more dowry and more illiterate....

    -Of course may be you or I may be one of them.

    Do we deserve to be called literate , where is literacy factor when our actions suggests something else.
    What is the use of getting educated...We behave like perfect illiterates...wheres the difference.
    To be successful and to earn money we need not much education..Greats minds are needed...
    We are educated to show betterment in society and us...where is the betterment...Are we not Educated illiterates..

    So you see that a person does not need to have been denied a formal education, to be an illiterate.

    People here really find some holiness and some cultural aspect in educated illiteracy...


    Educated illiterate means a person who only read the books but didn't grasp anything and drained out all the money spent on his education .

    He looks well dressed but spits everywhere. he behaves differently in India and US, he doesn't vote , at slightest opportunity he gives /takes bribes , he is worse than illiterates in civic sense. They are specialist who does not know the basics.

    “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


    Ending with a video , A different version of educated illiterates.A bit funny..

    Watch Documentary / Short films : Educated Illiterate by Mrityunjay
     
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  2. kelly1966

    kelly1966 Platinum IL'ite

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    hello Dear...
    I totally agree with your view.. formal education has nothing to do with the fact that a person is literate...
    Its really sad the way people behave even after being so "well qualified"..
    thought provoking post
    K
     
  3. incarnation

    incarnation Silver IL'ite

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    Thanks Kelly1966 , my post did its job of provoking thought and may it go deep ,You know that is missing In Our society , as One of reader of my prev post 1janavi commented : they are called "Confused talks" by our society
    They are useless , rattling of brain , no outcome oriented ..
    But I think change first begins in mind... We are all infinitely powerful to bring about a change..
     
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  4. Raba

    Raba Gold IL'ite

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    True, True Incarnation,

    Most of us can be termed as educated illitates.

    Few days back, some body dropped garbage,sanitary pads in front of our house(inside the compound gate)

    I was :rantbut could not anything other than sweeping it out. Again 2 days back there were eggs! oh no!

    These people will never change.
     
  5. Umlaut

    Umlaut Silver IL'ite

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    To add to your list is the phenomenon of peeing on the walls. As soon as a convenient wall is located, said party jumps off bicycle/motorbike/fancy car, unzips and starts peeing. Do they have such bad bladder control or can't they resist the urge to pee upon walls or is it the remnant of some primeval instinct harking back to the distant evolutionary history when we had to mark territories much the same way that animals do.

    I wonder?
     
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  6. incarnation

    incarnation Silver IL'ite

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    yeah , list is endless ,

    and the example u cited ...The educated people in govt do not want to have toilets for public .Even if they are there , educated people keep it in bad shape by spoiling it
     
  7. Riyakathir

    Riyakathir Platinum IL'ite

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    Dear

    I agree to ur point most educated persons are doing nonsense.... most irritating one for me is spitting saliva on road..

    but.. education gives awareness..... these all are ignorance
    they knw tht thy shd not do.. but thy ll do.... these all are personalities...
    these creatures will not change...

    more people are there... how many times u teach thm.... how many times u say and preach them...

    thy wont listen
     
  8. ojaantrik

    ojaantrik IL Hall of Fame

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    Your post reminds me of a recent incident. I found a large sized car parked right under my balcony on the pavement. I searched for the driver, but he had made himself scarce. Then just as I was leaving home, I noticed a family entering the car and the chauffeur appeared too from nowhere. As the people were about to start off, I asked them why they had parked the car illegally. No reply. I was not rich enough to deserve a response. I raised my voice. No response. Finally, unable to control myself, I cried out, "Educated fools." Now they found back their voices. The man in charge came out ready to rough me up. "Look, mind your words. I didn't park the car this way. It was the chauffeur's fault." I was aghast. "But are you not responsible for your chauffeur's behaviour? In any case, he was hiding all the time that this car was parked here. You are the only one who seemed to know where he was to be found." In response, he said, "Shut up you fool." Frankly, my irritation left me immediately. This is what I told him. "I may be the greatest fool on earth. But that still leaves you responsible for your chauffeur's conduct."

    I have learnt to live with this. I don't think anything will ever change in this country. Nonetheless, I don't know why, I am very fond of living here. I have lived in different parts of the world for extended periods of time. And always found that I couldn't continue to live abroad. Perhaps I am an educated illiterate too!

    Nice post.

    GP
     
  9. incarnation

    incarnation Silver IL'ite

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    Thanks for your fb and interesting incident..
    atleast people understanding and changing are getting to be little by little more literates..

    -ink
     
  10. Kamalji

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    Dear Incarnation,

    Well very true.I am guilty of this crime too, i throw away my empty ciggie pac on the road, agreed we shopuld not do it.

    Yes most of what u said, is done by us all, including me. Now i will try and reform myself.My dog gopes and ****s on the road, or outside the house of someone, and we have fights over it, i justify by saying that a dog cant sit in the kamot like we himans do, so he has to do on the roads.

    And then it is not my dogm but so many others of the lane, plus strays too, some cows too come.

    so to make up for it, i pay my sweepress some moneyt every month to daily clean whatever **** she see around my house and the neighbours too.what else to do.

    But yes u are very right.

    Regards

    kamal
     

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