k.raghuraman’s column
POINTS TO PONDER – 2
IS MAN A MERE SLAVE TO MACHINE?
POINTS TO PONDER – 2
IS MAN A MERE SLAVE TO MACHINE?
Now- a- days, people tend to become more and more mechanical. They don’t want to use their full potentials to the fullest extent. For example, they store the contact numbers their close relatives, even their own personal number and birthdates in some equipment so as to remember correctly.
But, the Memory Space in one’s brain is limitless. In fact, it is an endless treasure house from where one could both draw and deposit immense invaluable.
This useful gift was properly used by our ancestors and that is why our past education system was based on listening where the student was more attentive to Gurus words in order to assimilate and reflect on what he had learnt.
Although this system does not give much emphasis on writing skill, the student was very much in a position to be more proficient in his subject and thereby moulded his character by himself in due course of time. But, in contrary to this valuable practice, today our present education system has become rotten in the hands of so called learned educationists who give more importance to marks rather than to our discriminatory and comprehension faculties. In short, we are keen in quantity than on quality.
This sad state of affairs exists because of our lack of sensitivity towards our younger generation and that is why youngsters rely more on cheap ‘notes’ to reach that magic pass mark somehow or the other.
Even technology has done it’s best to ruin the morall of the students. For example, even in lower classes students are allowed to use calculators for simple Mathematical calculations. As a result, as they grow older, they depend more and more on the use of Computers. In fact, they have forgotten that even the Computers are invented only by a man’s mind.
To conclude, man has become a slave to machines which are actually made by him. This article is only to rekindle our thoughts in order to raise against all these evils which are introduced in the name of progress.
But, the Memory Space in one’s brain is limitless. In fact, it is an endless treasure house from where one could both draw and deposit immense invaluable.
This useful gift was properly used by our ancestors and that is why our past education system was based on listening where the student was more attentive to Gurus words in order to assimilate and reflect on what he had learnt.
Although this system does not give much emphasis on writing skill, the student was very much in a position to be more proficient in his subject and thereby moulded his character by himself in due course of time. But, in contrary to this valuable practice, today our present education system has become rotten in the hands of so called learned educationists who give more importance to marks rather than to our discriminatory and comprehension faculties. In short, we are keen in quantity than on quality.
This sad state of affairs exists because of our lack of sensitivity towards our younger generation and that is why youngsters rely more on cheap ‘notes’ to reach that magic pass mark somehow or the other.
Even technology has done it’s best to ruin the morall of the students. For example, even in lower classes students are allowed to use calculators for simple Mathematical calculations. As a result, as they grow older, they depend more and more on the use of Computers. In fact, they have forgotten that even the Computers are invented only by a man’s mind.
To conclude, man has become a slave to machines which are actually made by him. This article is only to rekindle our thoughts in order to raise against all these evils which are introduced in the name of progress.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed;
But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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