Cleaning up my folders, to create space for the upcoming seasons, I found an old article I wrote. Here it goes: I was asked to write in 250 words the answer to the question mentioned below. Here it goes:
How do you aspire to shape your country’s future?
In the wake of the World War II, what came to realization to the harbingers of the developed countries was the significance of academics in achieving the general welfare of the nation. For it was seen that those nations were dependent on the people from a stronger academic background for technical support during crisis to re-establishing the nation’s strength during the post war period.
It is well-known that the nation’s greatness in the times of crisis is retained by these gems of academia, fostered by the nation. India has centers for knowledge dissemination and not knowledge creation.
Education, the panacea for most problems that the nation faces, is the area where I aspire to work on. Schools, the most common institution that is accessed by the future pillars of the nation, need to be freed from the shackles of traditional pedagogy. The pedagogues needs to change; in fact a constant evolution is essential, strategiz-ing and focusing on grass root innovations , a wider spectrum for learn-ability, unlike the prevalent restriction based on courses and curriculum and implementing the ‘learning-through-living- it’ concept.
With this vision of investing in educational transformation and re-structuring the conventional methods at a mass-level to make it accessible to every child and with an immaculate determination to give shape to this vision, what I am looking for in this MBA program is the infusion of focused entrepreneurship, management skills and a global perspective to concrete this vision to a brighter nation.
Let me know, what you think about it.