Middle class student- struggle, scholarship, jobs.

 

The struggle of an Indian middle-class student

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Introduction

The Indian education system is the worst system, I have ever seen. It had killed the dreams of millions of aspirants, who dream of something big and different. It has only provided a limited scope with unlimited competition, struggle and difficulties.

The education system with no sense…! Indian education system.

Secondary introduction

See poor can't afford school, so their children are prevented from entering schools. Rich understands education, that how much it is important and how much it is not, that’s why we do not get to see any doctor or engineer from a rich family. I have mentioned rich families, not the families who are rich but with middle-class programming and mindset. 

The remaining is the middle class. Most of the middle-class students suffer, and the worst sufferers are the students from typical middle-class families. The middle class has limited sources of earning, so they think that education and getting an education are everything that their children should do. Everything other than education is like poison to them. 

And that’s why they keep their children away from all the advancements and hence their children all remain in middle class even after getting jobs and so much hard work.

Struggle as an infant

When a newborn arrives in middle-class families, his struggle starts from the day he is born. This line seems impractical as how can an infant struggle and how his struggle starts from his day of birth? You will get your answers. Continue reading…

His parents decide his future, in less than two hours of his birth. Every day his parents strengthen their desire by looking at the face of their child. They put all the load of their desire on their child. And rename it as the child’s success. Normally parents transfer their responsibilities to their child at the age of 18 or even more, but in middle-class families, the heaviest responsibility(the responsibility of fulfilling the parent's dream) is imposed in less than 3 years of his birth and unknowingly the child bears this load from his infant age. 

And that’s why rich rebel, poor rebel but middle-class bear as they are trained to bear the suppression from the age of two years and even less. In typical middle-class families, this suppression is even worse. The parents want to see their child ahead of everyone else, from a small age to boast up their fake pride. 

The child had not even learned how to speak and their parents have started to learn his alphabets. Wow! And this is true. As the child celebrate his 3^rd birthday, his parents start sending him to school. This was the journey of every middle-class student as an infant. Now he has grown up as a child, let's see how far will he go on his parent's way to a safe and secure job.

Childhood

When the child reaches this age his secondary struggle starts. He has to give exams, prepare for exams, and have to do homework, which is more compulsory than the natures call. Middle-class students are rarely given lessons on moral values in school. 

The value of learning moral values is left to parents. Even they are not given adequate time for their physical exercise (playing), shaping their creativity and teaching about money are far-away subjects. Our base is shaped to that kind, that job is our greatest priority, we are born to do the job and if anybody fails to do it, he is living in vain. This is the mentality of teachers and parents. 

Children carry school bags that are heavier than them. I think this is not the way of giving education. Children are made to put the habit of studying as long as possible. This is the age of enjoying, playing, and exploring small things but children’s childhood is only up to books. It starts on books and ends in books. I have seen children crying when they are not prepared for exams. I have also seen teachers beating students like they are their prisoners. 

And children even don’t tell their parents about all this because their parents will only blame them not the teachers. This is the age when children make memories for a lifetime, but I think nobody wants to make memories of this kind. This is the time when children see, experience real-world, make friends and try to understand themselves and their loved ones. 

So let them do, don’t pressurize them so much that they have to wear spectacles at the age of 7. Let them enjoy their childhood. Children are only left to studies and books. They learn books, more than their relatives. And this is how their childhood ends.

Teenage

This is the most brutal age of middle-class children that they will ever experience. There is the tension of studies in school, the tension in the house, the tension in the night, in the morning, studies, studies, and studies everywhere. In earlier times gurus(teachers) at this age start molding and shaping their students, they were given adequate time for all skills even for dance and music. But today, children’s view about studies is cemented, and no one can change it.

 this is the age of hormonal change in the body, experiencing love, care, understanding emotions, society, explaining oneself to others but apart from these, there is one thing which is most important of all that is studies. 

There are parents who try and separate their children from society for studies, and after 20 years when that child grows and is not able to fulfill his responsibilities towards society and his family, then also they don’t realize that there is a huge hand of them behind his responsibilities, they will follow their old dogma and would say that every one of his age is doing his work good, fulfilling his responsibilities in a better way but there is some problem in ours. Always and always there is the mistake of children. 

At this age, children are taught the difference between being a boy and a girl, and this truth is covered with a fake slogan, Boys and Girls are equal. 

Children are forced to study all the time and to cover this truth school organize some cultural activities in which only those can take part, who have not taken competition. (a+b)^2= a^2 + b^2 + 2ab, No one knows the right use of this formula in real life, but if anybody recites this formula wrong we will get 4 persons laughing at him. There is extreme pressure of competition, boards, and various kinds of competitive exams. 

In the 8^th class children are asked to study for 5 years because the hard work done in these 5 years is equal to hard work done in fifty years, in the 9^th they are asked to study only 4 years as these 4 years of hard work are equal to 50 years. In 10^th they are only asked to study 3 years because these three years can make their future or can destroy it. then finally when that child reaches in 11^th standard he is asked only to study for 2 years because 60% of the syllabus in competitive exams comes from this class. And when the student reaches the last class of high school he is asked to revise the 12^th class syllabus again and again because this is the sum of all the education which he got in previous classes. My foot! And the worst thing which I have experienced, is parents punish and beat their children if they do not do well in exams and class. 

Dronacharya, the great Indian teacher, taught education to his students according to their capabilities. You can understand it in this way if you say to monkey, leopard, cat and to the elephant that climb on tree, the elephant will surely consider him as a loser as he will not be able to climb that tree in his lifetime.

And the same is with the Indian students, those who love to climb trees like monkeys get ahead of those who can break that tree in one blow, like an elephant.  The next repression is our education system. It provides us only three options to make a career, whether to become a doctor, engineer, or officer in the army.

 Nobody understands the feelings of teenagers. Parents because of their fake pride, teachers because of their fake results, and friends are born to discourage. Facing all these struggles our teenage ends.

Secondary teenage

This age roughly lies between 17 years to 23 years. This is the most critical age in which the younger middle class has to prove themselves. But 92% of them fail to achieve their goals. The stats behind failures shows that there are 35% of students who are responsible for their failure and for 65% of failures parents, teachers, and the Indian education system are responsible.

Getting educational success is not necessary but getting passionate success is as necessary as eating food. And surely a piece of paper can't decide one's life.

 But no one can make this understand to parents and teachers. In the remaining 6% of success cases, there are 98% of losers, those who are defied by life. And this is definite truth.

Adulthood

Yes, it is true that in 6% of success cases there are 98% of losers. These losers are those who have only studied and studies, not even have a look at the outer world. Money, for which they have invested their 20-25 years in studying to earn it is out of their coverage area. 

Money is the greatest asset. Everyone cant handle it. even after getting a high salary, many remain in the middle class and the reason behind it is the subject of money taught at home, not in school. 

So what can poor and middle-class parents teach their children about money, they will simply say to stay in school and study hard to get a safe and secure job. And that’s why there are so many failures in India.

Conclusion

Middle-class students are the worst suffers. They suffer when they do not get success and also suffer when they get success. So there is only one way to get out and that is to follow only your dreams, not your parent’s. then only you can get true success.

Thanks for reading.