Escape of My Thoughts
... rational & irrational ...Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Why
I am a student of a reputed private university in Bangladesh and studying the most happening subject in recent times BBA. Fortunately or unfortunately I am a bit late and a lot of my friends have already completed the degree and waiting to get a job in some case any job. We spend more 500k in BDT for our degree and yet we are not getting a job which will give us a job which will pay 10k per month. Was it a wrong decision to study in this fashion. Probably yes probably not as I see some of my other friend who does not have any quality are earning 30k to 40k per month. Though some of my friends got good job which they actually deserved but a lot other are waiting to get a decent one and the number is too big in the second group.
Forget job and money, it is very clear that the education is not responsible for getting a job and we go study to get a degree of any kind. So what is the purpose of the universities, to provide knowledge and lessons which will make us very good humans. Do they really provide any of these? Those who are studying in any university in Bangladesh (both private and pubic) should be able to answer this question.
Late me tell you a story, I am sure a lot of you know the story but let me tell you the story once again from a different angle. One of the faculty member of one of the most renowned privet university got mugged and murdered by the MOLOM Party. All of you know that almost all the newspaper of the covered the story and the university authority canceled all the classes of the following day. 2 days later some of the students wanted to make a human chain for few minutes to show respect and at the same time to attract the attention of the authority. This time university authority did not wanted to help and actually tried to restrained them to do that. Finally some of the students got the permission to make the human chain for 5 minutes and they tried. At that time some of the faculty member came down at tried to make that look very normal and restrict the human chain within 40 feet in a bi-lane of the university. Unfortunately, I wad there and participating though it was not my university and observing the whole situation. While the human chain was being formed, some of the students (I should say modern and studious students) came and start making fun of the whole thing and as one of the faculty member was giving a speech he never mentioned that how big the loss was or how the students can protect any of these incident, how they can help to attract attention of the authority or how the faculty member are sorry for the loss. I wanted to ask the faculty members of that university the faculty who died is one of their co worker, it could be any of them and as a human being we should respect the fact it was a loss and we should do something so that nobody dies in this fashion. But what were they thinking? What are they teaching us? and Why?
I don't think they have the answer and neither do I or any of us I guess.
Forget job and money, it is very clear that the education is not responsible for getting a job and we go study to get a degree of any kind. So what is the purpose of the universities, to provide knowledge and lessons which will make us very good humans. Do they really provide any of these? Those who are studying in any university in Bangladesh (both private and pubic) should be able to answer this question.
Late me tell you a story, I am sure a lot of you know the story but let me tell you the story once again from a different angle. One of the faculty member of one of the most renowned privet university got mugged and murdered by the MOLOM Party. All of you know that almost all the newspaper of the covered the story and the university authority canceled all the classes of the following day. 2 days later some of the students wanted to make a human chain for few minutes to show respect and at the same time to attract the attention of the authority. This time university authority did not wanted to help and actually tried to restrained them to do that. Finally some of the students got the permission to make the human chain for 5 minutes and they tried. At that time some of the faculty member came down at tried to make that look very normal and restrict the human chain within 40 feet in a bi-lane of the university. Unfortunately, I wad there and participating though it was not my university and observing the whole situation. While the human chain was being formed, some of the students (I should say modern and studious students) came and start making fun of the whole thing and as one of the faculty member was giving a speech he never mentioned that how big the loss was or how the students can protect any of these incident, how they can help to attract attention of the authority or how the faculty member are sorry for the loss. I wanted to ask the faculty members of that university the faculty who died is one of their co worker, it could be any of them and as a human being we should respect the fact it was a loss and we should do something so that nobody dies in this fashion. But what were they thinking? What are they teaching us? and Why?
I don't think they have the answer and neither do I or any of us I guess.
I have a long way in front of me!
Very recently one of my friends father died, to be very accurate today is the eighth day. And today is the first day I am not with him. It was hard for him because his mother died about 5 years ago in a road accident in India and make things worst he is the only child and his father got married again about 4 years ago.
Those who read my blog regularly you would know every time some one dies I realize something about the life we have and how we are not very special. But this time it was different, not before yesterday though.
Yesterday he was sorting out the properties of his father as all of his savings are about to finish due to the heavy hospital bill and the rituals after his fathers death. And suddenly all the friendly faces were gone and though those people were not helping him in any way in last 7 or 8 days they are all there to help him (or not) to divide the properties between his mother and him. I was wondered by the number of people came yesterday and shouting with each other with a properties in which they are not suppose to have anything. They were bringing up topics that I never could thought of. And then I realized I am blessed that my family does not have any kind of property what so ever, I will not have to go through any of these. And I also realized that, to survive in this world I need to learn a lot more and see a lot more ... I have a long way in front of me!
Those who read my blog regularly you would know every time some one dies I realize something about the life we have and how we are not very special. But this time it was different, not before yesterday though.
Yesterday he was sorting out the properties of his father as all of his savings are about to finish due to the heavy hospital bill and the rituals after his fathers death. And suddenly all the friendly faces were gone and though those people were not helping him in any way in last 7 or 8 days they are all there to help him (or not) to divide the properties between his mother and him. I was wondered by the number of people came yesterday and shouting with each other with a properties in which they are not suppose to have anything. They were bringing up topics that I never could thought of. And then I realized I am blessed that my family does not have any kind of property what so ever, I will not have to go through any of these. And I also realized that, to survive in this world I need to learn a lot more and see a lot more ... I have a long way in front of me!
