October 27, 2011

Teach students skilled labour and unskilled labour

Most of the population is going to be labourers.. not owners of businesses, not engineers or doctors or IAS..

Most students when they grow up will be unemployed with high qualifications. And due to competition in the white collar fields and the tendency of government agencies to exploit, and rather show the private sector the ways to exploit, most educated people working in the private sector will be earning less than skilled labourers and even unskilled labourers.

By making children sit in the classrooms for hours and hours listening to boring teachers the students when they grow up, are physically weak. They cannot do any manual labour. Their enthusiasms are suppressed in the classrooms. They will be good only to work as white collar employees.

In Kerala, the Universities and the Government shows the way to exploit and maximise profits. School and college teachers, engineers and other educated people are appointed on contract basis and paying them pittance. The amount saved by squeezing out these educated people is the profit of the Universities and the government departments.

A skilled labourer gets Rs.500/- per day in Kerala. A principal in a B.Ed college too gets Rs.15,000/- per month even after decades of teaching experience and qualifications as high as double postgraduation and doctorate.

It is better to teach skilled labour in schools. Let students become strong enough and skilled enough to work as labourers. Give respect to labour. Rather than getting exploited as white collar employees, it would be better to learn less from these exploiters and start working ...

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