Hi all
It was a very interesting and thought provoking debate on this subject. I thank all senior and students for their views. As a person, who is closely involved with different generation of people both online and offline, I would like to share some of my observations:
No doubt, there is a great attitudinal change amongst our youth when you look at from the age group of 40 and above. How it has happened? Who is responsible for this? Dr Abdul Kalam in many of the meetings, used to say that character building is done by (1) father (2) mother and (3) teacher, and more specifically primary school teacher. We should also introspect, to what extent, parents and teachers contribute to the shaping up our young kids. Let me explain in detail more:
Presently, we have three generation of people living in India broadly. This is applicable mostly to middle class families.
First Generation - Age 55 and above
Educated around Indian Independence time. India was economically bad. Affected greatly by World wars. Not much of educational opportunities. May be these people are the first generation of educated people in their families. There were joint family systems. Mostly, the parents of these people were following ethics and moral values. The teachers who taught them were passionate teachers and they were thinking only about their students 24 hours. Political leaders were more committed, because they came just then from freedom movement. Corruption in Govt. offices were almost minimum or negligible. The persons who are now 55 plus were brought up in such atmosphere. Still u will see them comparatively more passionate about anything. Since they were brought up in poor background, they understand the value of money. Joint family systems were more accepted. When they were children, they were brought up by their grand parents, who respected values and ethics.
This generation of people brought up their children braving all the financial challenges. They wanted their children to be more educated.
Only because of great visionaries in this age group, who either planned or executed, India could show more progress. (Eg. Narasimha Rao, Dr Manmohan Singh, Dr Abdul Kalam, Mr Narayanamoorthy, N Vittal, Seshan, T S Krishnamoorthy, and many post independent leaders and officials). They are the architects of 'Modern India'.
You will find the passion of Mr Narendra, Dr Narasimha Reddi and Mr Surkund, (senior members of our group) still passionate about the profession even at their age (70 plus).
Second generation - Age 35 to 55
This generation of people got their education after middle of 70s. By that time, the values started getting eroded. They were brought up by their parents carefully, without exposing them to any financial burden. new generation of political leaders also started coming in, who were not part of freedom struggle. some of the states saw changes in the governments. Corruption in system slowly started growing. Mostly, this group is the second generation of educated people in their families. Lot of opportunities for higher education came up. They were brilliant than their earlier generation. They started occupying higher positions.
Joint family system started getting reduced. Economic independence for individual families were the primary concern. Selfishness started. Mostly this generation did not suffer economically. Unlike the earlier generation, children born for this generation did not get much opportunity to mingle or live with their grand parents. More opportunities and more movement. The so called 'impatience' started setting in.
Third generation - Age group less than 35
This generation is technology driven generation. Super brilliant. When India was opened up in 1991, we got exposed to global scene. Lot of cultural invasion took place. From the value based passionate education system, we started moving towards business model of education. The State Governments which were running 'high quality educational institutions' earlier, started handing over the educational institutions to private sector. Toddy, arrack and liquors which were sold by private sector, moved to Govt. Sector. Now, many Governments started selling liquors than concentrating on good educational institut ions. Political, commercial, business value systems got eroded. Corruption became open.
Even in the recent survey conducted by us for our ezine, youngsters did not consider 'ethics' as an important aspect in journalism. This is a reflection of the society. Even the second generation parents started forcing their kids to compete. All the new generation educational institutions started producing 'successful business man', rather than 'good human beings'.
Today, our youngsters of less than 35 face huge challenges from different directions. Plenty of opportunities available are nowadays used only for making 'money', than making good 'human values'. In the run for making money, our youth spoil their health also. Because they are not exposed to downside (reality) of life by their parents, they are not able to accept failures. They get emotional and discouraged, when they meet with failure. They are 'impatient' to the extent that they want 'bus' to fly like a 'jet' which is unrealistic and dangerous.
Any talk about values, ethics, good food, etc. will be considered as 'out dated' and 'not in tune with changing times'.
This is the reality of the large section of middle class, who form the 'intellectual backbone' of this country. I personally do not blame the young children. As elders we are also responsible for this sad state of affairs.
An appeal to youth: Rightly or wrongly, the system has pushed to such a situation. the present day youngsters should understand the reality and try to bring the system back to normalcy. I feel their enormous potentiality is getting wasted on frivolous things. They should not consider 'bubbles' as reality.
The earlier generation people may not be tech savvy or jargon oriented. Only because of their systematic approach, they have brought development and created strong fundamentals to India and you are all enjoying the fruits of development. Only you are going to take the country forward.
Communicators and value based educational institutions have greater role to play.
Srinivasan
Prime Point
91766 50273
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