The self financing professional colleges in Kerala are keeping the students and the govt. in point blank for the past few years. Educational sector has now become one of the most profitable businesses rather than a service to the society. The most worrying fact is that the Christian Missionaries who played a vital role in the past bringing in an educational revolution in this country are now bargaining for money.
The element of social service is missing in our present educational system. Everyone is only interested in making profit out of it and the standard of education has degraded to such an extent that the students coming out of some of these colleges are not fit to be inducted into the professional arena even after several months of training. Because of the increase in the number of professional colleges and hence the competition among them to consistently improve their results, many of them are adopting spoon feeding. This has resulted in the drastic decline of educational standard. As Swami Vivekananda said, education should be the manifestation of perfection already in man.
The biggest ever mistake was committed by our govt. when it provided NOC to numerous professional colleges without having a strict law for governing them. Now the self financing professional colleges are organized in such a manner that the government is at the mercy of them for admitting students from merit list every year.
Sree Narayana Guru had taught us to “be enlightened with education, be strengthened with organization”. These professional colleges had followed the latter to become organized against the interests of the society and hence making enlightenment with education unapproachable for majority of people. If the govt. had passed a law to govern them before giving NOCs, the dilemma which we’re facing every year could have been averted.
