Education

Every year hundred of thousands young educated people leave the country. Nepal now have become a manufacturing labor nation  for the developed or semi developed nations. Statistic shows that Nepal has 71% literacy rate and we all know many graduate people are working as a laborer in rich nations. No doubt, they are the one who are most frustrated bunch of the society. Does Education mean to mass produce laborer for other nation ? Why their education allows them to demand for workers and  ours education qualifies us to fill the form and cross our fingers.

Before the economic boom in India, a famous TV hos Shekhar Suman quipped about major hotels in India having doorman who hold a graduate certificate in their arms. If the owner or operation manager wanted to know, "why the lights on[ even on daytime ] ?" the door men then would respond its Thomas Alba Edison sir ! Does getting graduate certificate mean  to go and stand on the door all day long ?   Watching Satyamev Jayate also tells us there are some vegetable hawkers who are holding a graduate certificate. Should we go to school and college for yeas to do a job that requires no education ? If it does not change your life style or make you rich enough then is that education is needed anymore ?

Education is light. Education is power. Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. This very famous last line is said by Nelson Mandela.  These are some very powerful lines you must have heard more than once in your life. This reminded me of Baburam Bhattarai, one of our politician. He once was a key person in Maobadi party, but now he has his own party. 

During the Maobadi people's war time its cadet were involved in blasting many government offices, police & army posts in remote parts of the country and killing innocent civilians who never did any harm to them. All they wanted to do is to inject terror and fear in the mind of public. During the ten years so called people's war, the destruction of national properties amounted in billions of Rs, killing more than 13,000 lives. This however do not include the people who left the country in search of job or better life, stolen properties and emotional drain of people of my country. That war only pushed back the entire nation for more than 25 years. 

After they came in full political power, once some mabobadi top heads were on TV to discus the cost of hydro power that was going on and that would have done good for this nation in the long run. Hissila Yami, wife of Baburam Bhattarai was also on the show along with others to say that we pay unnecessarily huge money to those who got contract and they hire people who are more expensive than our local people, who are affordable. Thus incurring more cost and they take the bigger pie of the nations investment. Hearing this, the contracting company which was from America, broke the contract immediately from the hydro project. That single contract costed nation billions of Rs, as it was a long term development plan for the nation. As asserted by another officer working on this project on live national TV to discuss further about the topic of corruption they felt that was going on in that project. The officer sarcastically thanked Yami, who was holding a position of some minister at time, saying they got it the way they wanted it, only it costed nation multi billion Rs in loss because of the broken contract. This again pushed back the development process not just the electricity. Remember Hissila Yami served long time of her career as a lecturer in a college before hiding in the jungle.

What is my point here is Baburam Bhattarai was gold medalist in his student life. He topped the board exam in SLC - School Leaving Certificate. He also topped his college. Maobadi was very much similar to the revolutionary movement in Peru some calls this Shining Path of Peru. That again was ignited by another super bright but very frustrated student. Its only that the fate of Peru's peoples war and its leader and Nepal's people's war leaders is vast different. Peru's leader were strategically nullified, that's what I remember reading in one of Reader's Digest long time back. Does not this mean frustrated educated people if they team up with the man like Prachanda cost nation multi billions dollar. We sure have the biggest percentage of people who are highly educated equally frustrated to their career most. 

Pushpa Kamal Dahal a.k.a. Prachanda is the man behind the revolt that engulfed the nation in the name of people's war. I remember watching Bijay Kumar, the famous and  very outspoken TV journalist once asked him during one of his interview, there are so many people in your party who only reads and they don't do anything. In another of his interview I remember Bijay Kumar finding the man very 'carismatic'.

Any person who is educated has learned to get whatever they want in life without violating the rights of others. It seems that Bijay Kumar never came across the book Think and grow Rich to find those  lines by Napoleon Hill. It also seems Baburam and his well educated circle of intellect never came across the book named Rich Dad Poor Dad to find the lines like, getting a good education making good grades no longer ensures success. Still parents tells their children go to school and get good grades to get good job. The world around us has changed but the advice has not, by Sharon Letchrer.  It seems none of those highly educated people ever had time to read and understand people like Jhamak, a physically challenged woman who writes in her autobiography, effect of education should be seen in your manner and life style as well as in thinking; mere gaining certificate is not sufficient.

We all know the importance of education. l remember reading an article in a college book named, the Gold Flax, compiled by Moti Nissani and Shreedhar Lohani. In one article, why you must go to college; the writer argues so many things and one particular issue is, if you lie on the operation table the chances are high you wont get killed if you are collegge educated. When I read that, I was thinking did not they get higher percentage in school and college than me !  

"That is why it is foolish to simply say to a child, get a good education", writes Robert Kiyosaki in his book Rich Dad Poor Dad. Now, I would like to leave you with just one thought about this subject, education is the foundation of all success.