Education is clearly wasteful if people are still thinking 30 years behind.
The real question is that whether top class education is really educating us on how to lead life with at least some integrity.
You know it’s all just a hoax when a fully educated grown woman allows herself to be cowed down by marital pressure, into thinking that the man (also fully educated) by marrying her is doing her a giant favour, which she would probably otherwise not deserve (according to her). And this man feels extremely justified in having the bride’s side footing the bill at every stage; so much for his Ivy League education!
Clearly, 25 years of so called Education, spanning kindergarten, primary school, high school, junior college, undergraduate university and postgraduate university have taught her/him nothing about fairness, equality or abandonment of the caste system. Never mind them; the girl’s parents go even beyond, thinking “The boy and his family are good, at least they’re not asking for Dowry!”
You try to educate them, tell them that it’s against the law (Dowry Prohibition Act) to ask for dowry, they could be thrown in jail for doing so. But no, “It is that way for YOU!” of course! Coz the law doesn’t apply to us backward people, because we live in a world of our own.
They say that, you’ll see when it’s your turn to get married. All this idealism is all good in books and movies. This is the real world baby! All this doesn’t fly, when you’re purchasing 50 lakhs worth of Stridhan!
I wonder why it is that women are even educated, if this is how they are expected to live. In my opinion, it’s a lot more hurtful when you Know that you’re being wronged and are expected to bear with it due to convention and societal norms. I’d rather just be an illiterate and not know the difference. That way nothing could seem wrong or right, just normal. Right?
So it is my plea, parents of India; Don’t educate your girl child. Seriously, she’ll be happier this way. At least she doesn’t know what she’s missing.
