Sometimes there are miserable dreams, Demons rule our dreams but you cant stop dreaming. There are ups and downs in our road to goal too. I always say to my friends our life is same as "Sine wave in Electronics studies". There are highs and lows and sometimes our wave vibrates to, but this does not mean you have to stop.
Some of us at times think that we are the undisputed expert on a subject – there is nothing we don’t know and people would be a fool to listen to anyone else. What we don’t realize is that by being over-confident in our abilities, we can often become so stuck. As the world changes around us, we don’t realize that what was true yesterday isn’t quite so true today. With technology and the world changing so fast, it can be challenge to keep up – and if we slack off and stop learning or discovering then we opening ourselves up to failure.
I would keep this post short to express my feeling about this with a great example of Superstar AmitabBacchan. He has been through so much highs and lows and best suited example to get motivated. See the below links for how people think or you yourself think about you when you are in low phase of life. See how your face expressions change when you are in low phase. You always have some worry.
Check the below videos and see the change no need for any of my words. Jindagikokabhikareebsedekho to hr lamhamushkuratanazaraayega.........
As Oneirology I have not kept it restricted to myself or my dreams. Someone may have a dream to be a Doctor, engineer, film actor/actress or even a politician. I would always call every dream as milestone and our dream does not have a "End Of Dream" or "The End " titles. Dream ends when we die and sometimes it does live even after you die.
The main thing behind this is these dreams cant be achieved just by being dedicated or hardworking to make it true. Our dreams or goals need a helping hand in every milestone we set. I know if you are reading this blog post you surely have some dream, guess why? we cant live without a dream - dream to achieve something. So, close your eyes for 1 minute and think of a person who has been this helping hand in achieving these milestones. May be your parents will be the helping hand in achieving these initial milestones or may be like my dream with some unknown person helping me to achieve my milestones. May be that was their dream to make me achieve my dream.
What if you are given a chance to dream for someones dream to be achieved, someone who you don't know but that your dream will surely live even after you. Did you also as everyone else think Atal Bihari Vajpayeejis Song of "School Chale Hum" just being another album of some pop artist? No! it was a dream of someone who was helping to fulfill somebodies dream. We are bumbling along with this out modeled system of elementary education, which is a real shame. Experts do admit that India's Education system is deteriorating. Illiteracy rates in many third world countries are alarmingly high; nestled in the heart of Asia, India's education program is falling behind other nations. I think we should get out of thinking India as a brain producing country as that was a different time and we cant live future with that old few years. I also think, In India, a person is counted under a literate stack just if he can read or write his name which does not serve today's purpose of being a developed country. While there are many rural area school systems which are operating in poor conditions there is one in particular whose schools outperform most other rural schools and also those located in wealthy areas of India. why this difference? Why cant education be same for all and with same facilities?
Many children living in rural areas receive a level of education which is very poor. But, according to our great and helpful politicians its a big thing that they even do get education :). Overall enrollment in primary and middle schools are very low. Fifty percent of children living in rural areas leave school before the fifth grade. These children leave school for variety of reasons: some leave because of lack of interest; Lack of money, most leave so that they can work in the fields, small shops, where the hours are long and the pay is low. A large percent of the dropouts are females. Forced by their parents, most girls perform chores and tend the family at home. These are some of the reasons why sixty percent of all females in India are illiterate, a figure much higher than those of males. As these children grow into adults, many are still illiterate by the age of forty. These uneducated adults are also reluctant to send their own children to school because of their failure in the education system. This in turn creates a problem for the next generation.
While the children living in rural areas continue to be deprived of a quality education, part of the reason why is due to their teachers. A large number of teachers refuse to teach in rural areas and those that do are usually under qualified. Many of the teachers also lack the enthusiasm to teach because of their meager salary - less than one hundred dollars per month. Another obstacle faced by the schools is that obtaining more teachers for rural schools is difficult because of state guidelines that approve of high student-to-teacher ratios. Lack of books and other reading materials seem to be a widespread problem too. The use of high-tech devices such as computers is very rare. Another condition of the schools are the inadequate facilities the classes are actually taught in. Some schools are located in warehouses while others in small houses. Many of the rural schools operate without electricity.
Though rural children continue to be deprived of a formal education, the education system of Kerala, India is an exception. Located in the southern peninsula of the country, Kerala's illiteracy rates are lower than most other rural areas in India. Because of its immense population of twenty nine million and high unemployment rate, a large number of its inhabitants are forced to work outside of Kerala. Many of the people of Kerala who work in a different country send lots of donations back to Kerala. These people believe that it is responsibility of them to donate back to their hometown. It is these donations which have funded many of the programs that make Kerala stand out from other rural states. Coupled with the government and private donations the education system has been able to benefit. More schools are being built and more teachers are willing to work there. We can learn from Kerala so that its success can be duplicated. Receiving more private donations and government support is essential for those rural areas needing to improve the general lifestyle of its people.
This is the time to dream for someones dream to be achieved. This is the time to prove the world that this is the country that educated the whole world. I know even me myself and all of you reading this blog cannot go to teach under-privileged children in India back home but there are such real social organizations that truly help such children to get educated, to get their dreams in reality. Asha is a non-profit initiative dedicated to educating under-privileged children in India.
In brief, V.J.P.Srivatsavoy, D. Gupta, and S. Pandey founded "Asha for education" in UC Berkeley in 1991. As of July 2006, there are over 66 Asha chapters worldwide: 45 in the US, 14 in India, and 7 in Europe, Singapore and Australia. It is growing. The objectives of this group are:
1. To provide education to underprivileged children in India. 2. To encourage the formation of various local groups across the world to reach out to larger sections of the population. 3. To support and cooperate with persons and groups already engaged in similar activities. 4. To raise the required human and other resources to achieve the group objectives. 5. To provide opportunities to individuals living outside India who wish to participate in Asha activities in India. 6. To address, whenever possible, other issues affecting human life such as health care, environment, socio-economic aspects and women's issues.
Over the years, Asha has succeeded in touching the lives of thousands of children across the different projects that it has supported.However, there is still a lot to be achieved since there are millions of children in India who do not have access to basic education, Which may be their dream.
