Are we loosing quality of Originality ?

According to C N R Rao, the scientific adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, "Science in India is dying. Unless India changes the scientific policies and practices that it has been following for the last five decades, its science could be dead in the next five years." In a recent speech, he said: "The contribution from universities is hitting an all-time low. Even the top institutions are not performing well in terms of research papers and the number of research students they train."

What he is saying about science is also applicable to other fields. Take literature or music for example. Where are Ravindranath Tagore, Jagdishchandra Bose, Shivkumar Sharma, in todays generation ?

Todays generation is definitely intelligent. But there is difference between intelligence and originality. Intelligence is ability to understand, acquire and grasp things at faster pace. But originality is use of intelligence to search and shape unnown things in the universe. Originality is usng intelligence to bind many known things tgether to form unknown thing in the universe.

The schools and education systems are to be blame for sure as they teach things to memories rather than feel and experience. They push too hurriedly to the exams rather than understanding.

We are proud that we are acquiring foreign companies and our people are going to abroad for jobs. But in the course we are killing the good systems there also. I was talking to Mike Rudolf, a software engineer, US citizen with 15 years of experience. He said the culture of the companies 15 years before was different when he had not had to work till 4 am in the morning. Now he can not find time to look after his interests and personal life

The Indians, Chinese and Japanese have already killed the industry culture in US and I can see some effects in the school systems also. I will not wonder if American schools which today emphasis more on understanding will emphasis on memorizing in coming 10 to 15 years to make their students compatible in the race.

These days are just about hild prodigies and child geniuses. The parents don’t want a good kid, they don’t want an original kid, what they want is a genius kid- a Bill Gates or Lakshmi Mittal or SRK, todays heros who have won the battle of fame and money.