As an admirer of social studies and enthusiast of political economy and international relations, i wanted to have some basic books for my personal library and that's how i set out for some book shopping , but my experience with book shopping was of utter disappointment, as the main market for books in Hyderabad the Koti area was filled with books pertaining only to computer languages, technical guides and easy read books for dummies. there were hardly any collection of books on humanities except familiar texts of high school.
what does this experience convey me ? it gave a feeling that, India is on a verge of producing more number of software writers/coders , where there is an element of serving the multinationals of the west for most of their backend and clerical Jobs at a cheaper labor price and there is an increasing marginalization or stratification of social sciences and pure sciences in the state of Andhra pradesh where teaching is being merely defined on the basis of serving clients of MNCs and not as a mechanism to bring social development with humane values.
Academic domains such as Political science lest International relations , Economics and perhaps other areas like sociology have considerably suffered due to the lack interest of state machinery and mechanical mindset of people in Andhra pradesh . the Osmania University at a time known for its research scholars in social studies is an example , reeling under the shadow of cheap engineering colleges , who have successfully built an easy way of making pseudo technical professionals , who only teach writing of software codes !!
its time that teachers, academicians take a lead in making people aware of the importance of social studies , while giving equal importance to technical education. creation of technical Jobs must not be at an expense of social development, because learning of social systems embeds an individual to think and act in coherence towards reform and lead a quality life, while techincal Jobs may provide the easy money , but they cannot guarantee a society that is humane and transparent.
Over burdening our children by make them mere rote learners, with ready made technical - semi skills and politicization / Bureaucratization of university system will no doubt harm (still harming ) our society in long run , but it will also make our social systems weak with dangerous consequences to the economy in future.
no doubt we need engineers , doctors and teachers but what if ? the future generation is not given the education, which does not allow them to think of contributing to society ? an emphasis must be laid in universities and colleges to rejuvenate applied social studies like Economics, Political sciences and Law. so that we can shape visionaries for tomorrow .
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