Educational Institutes -- Where are we heading?

In the recent past I have watched the news related to our educational institutes. The educational institutes are supposed to be the temples of learning. In my country we even treat our teachers as equivalents of God. The teachers are given the position next only to the parents. Such is the respect given to teachers. However, in the recent developments the teachers are performing such acts that they are loosing respect of the students; and at the same time the students are not giving the due respect to their teachers.

It is not uncommon in India to punish the students at school, the punishments are sometimes severe. In one of the recent incidents a school teacher had made the child to stand in the hot sun for not completing the homework assigned to her. The poor kid could not withstand the high temperatures and she fell ill. She later went into coma and died. The kid's only mistake was not to complete her assignment and she had to face death. Does she deserve a death punishment for not completing her homework?

The other news that I got to watch on the idiot box was related to a university staff who got humiliated by the students for misbehaving with the female students in the campus. The person in discussion, had misbehaved towards the female students in the campus. The complaint was lodged against him and the university was taking legal action against him. But still the students thought it was their responsibility to teach a lesson to this guy and they started pouring ink over his face and beating him in public. Now if everyone feels so responsible and takes their own actions of justice, then why do we have judiciary?

In one other incident, one of the student who was an asthma patient did not receive immediate attention and by the time the student is taken to hospital for the required assistance, she succumbs to death. This is not in any government operated schools, but in a highly regarded private educational institutes.

This time the private university which was just registered collects high fee from its students provides them with nominal facilities. After two years the college management informs them that they are not a recognised institute and are just registered, hence cannot provide graduation degrees to the folks. Having lost their invaluable two years of education, the students return to violence by beating the administrative staff in the college and damaging the college property. As in all the bollywood movies, the cops arrive in the end and take the management into custody.

In another inhuman and barbaric act, in one of the schools for deaf and dumb the female students are subjected to sexual harassment's. And the culprits are none other than the staff and management of the institute. When the teachers and the staff who are supposed to help the students turning into self-confident citizens of the country turn into villains, what education will they get? Where will they go to learn the ways to lead their life in the so-called civilized world?

If the educational insititutes and the teachers don't realise their responsibilities and the importance of the lives of the students who blindly believe them to transform them into knowledgeble and responsible citizes of the nation, it is hard to imagine the state of the nation.