Educative measures

Education has seriously become a byword... Just a remnant of the old glory that it once entailed.
I've been watching old Bollywood movies, and some are entertaining with their stereotypes of the one child in a family going 'to the city' for studies and then returning ten years later to fight off goons, corrupt landlords, tyrant thakurs et al with his sense of righteous education and propriety. Yet do we have the same definition of education today that was laid down in the minds of our grandparents... Many decades ago?

No doubt the education system has undergone major overhauling since then, but has it always been for the collective good?

Focusing on this, who decides 'the good'?

And yet we continue to falunt our private schooling and other such means of being educated, simultaneously nullifying the human spirit and the correct mode of conduct that a 'proper' education (if such a thing exists) purports to endow us with.

We are all sycophants. Cynics. And not to mention unbelievably silly.
That we have let ourselves be led to the slaughter is reason enough to bar others of our ilk from the threshold of education.

Education IMHO is the smile behind the grimace, the laughter behind the sorrow and the silver lining after every downpour that makes living, experiencing and being irrevocably, ubiquitously and stubbornly human, the most precious treasure in the entire universe.