Working with the tea plantation workers, one of the most illiterate lot, a thing that I discovered was that though economically compromised, a vast majority of them are quite truthful and honest people. On the contrary, the so called educated people in white-collared jobs.......doctors, engineers, bureaucrats, police officers etc. can be quite dishonest and greedy.
This has led to the conclusion that honesty, sincerity and truthfulness are not qualities that are related to the level of education. Our education system might have taught us a lot of languages, history, geography, science and mathematics but there is an inherent lack in the moral lesson that it imparts.
Can you consider a man learned if he has no moral values? A lot of schools have cropped up charging exorbitant fees, only to release smarter products who are more materialistic.
Educationist should be aware that the biggest social threat today, in a developing country like ours, is the economy divide....the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
The onus to bridge this gap and bring the two classes closer, is on the rich. This however cannot be acheived by a person who is rich only in wealth; he has to be rich in his heart as well and to create such human being should be the biggest challenge of today's educationist.
