I often wonder if professional educational institutions become reputed for the quality of education they impart or for the lucrative job offers that their students get! Modern educational system puzzles me nowadays because of their uncanny and unsure objectives to exist as an education institution.
The goal of any educational institution must be to embrace students of high excellence and provide them the proper infrastructure to study. Although most institutions do provide good infrastructure to their students, the real set-back is the whopping fee that they charge from the students! I would not like to quote any particular institution here, but isn't high cost more prevalent among the elite and reputed institutions of the world?
Such phenomenon practiced by the reputed institutions raise doubts about the focus and goals of these institutions. It also raises apprehensions about the elite institutions being available only to the students who hail from the high-income group! Many a time, a student of brilliant intellect may not be able to enroll into an elite institution due to lack of monetary funds. Even today, an opportunity to study in institutions like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, or MIT remains to be a distant dream for many eligible and brilliant students of the third world countries! We have heard about wards of politicians and head of countries who have had the privilege to study in the Harvard or the Cambridge. Rarely, have we heard about a brilliant Ram, Hari or Lakshmi of our country to have earned seats in these coveted institutions!!
I think it is time for the elite and the reputed institutions to enrich their campus life with eligible and brilliant students only. Let monetary ontogeny be not the only goal for the reputed educational institutions. The responsibility of funding these institutions can be taken up by the the government of the country. It would be even better if a centralized body can be formed in the United Nations, which can shoulder the responsibility of funding the elite institutions of the world!
The crux is, there needs to be a workaround for making the world impartial to every brilliant student such that they can walk their chosen aisle of knowledge called, UNIVERSITIES.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
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