Yesterday afternoon I was going up to level-7 using the elevator#9. When the elevator stopped at level-5, a good number of students (may be about 10 of them or even more) got into the elevator who wanted to go down to level-1. Some of them were so desperate to get down to level-1, they used the emergency stop switch and changed the direction of the elevator to go down. Nobody even bothered to ask me or anybody else in the elevator if that was okay to do.
I was in a hurry and did not bother to stop them and gave them a lecture on their action. I just decided to get out of the elevator and walk two stories up to help burn my fat a little. But later realized that I should have stopped them and made them realize whatever they had done was wrong. I have done such things before but yesterday for some reason I just let it go! Now the problem is, after that incident, the memory of my ignorance/inaction is bothering me and it has kept coming back to me. The feeling is so strong and adamant that when I woke up from sleep in the middle of the night minutes ago (which is so rare that I cannot recall when such a thing happened to me in recent past), I have decided to let you guys know about this. This tiny write up is an attempt to console my soul that I am doing something positive by spreading this message or sharing my feelings.
The message is very simple but yet may be not easy enough to comprehend the deeper consequence. We have failed or have been failing to give our students education in true sense. The purpose of education is not only to give them a tertiary degree certificate, or make them a better manager who would make a right business decision, but also to make them a better person to bring a positive change to our society at large, to make us proud by contributing to our nation/world positively.
Their action revealed a manipulative character which is abundantly found around us in a society full of corruption where people are busy misrepresenting facts proving false to be true and true to be false. So, may be it’s high time we should realize and do something positive to change our system for the better and re-orient ourselves differently. May be instead of mass intake (garbage in garbage out) we should be more selective and also may be we should pay more attention in instilling integrity inside our students by building ethical & moral side of our students.
Thank you for your time who have bothered to stop by and read this message. I am sorry if I have inadvertently hurt anybody’s feelings in any way.
