Education - Does it make better people?

I got this as an offline message in my yahoo messenger!
"A poor, ill educated man created billion dollar Reliance industry. Two business graduates from Stanford and Wharton Business School are busy breaking it. Mera Bharat Mahan! Jai Hindustan!!"

Sounds funny at the first instance, but it is so true. I have seen people roam around with T-Shirts sporting the words "I was born intelligent; Education ruined me". Sometimes one is left with a feeling of dismay looking at events like this. Another case in point is the Nepali Royal family where one prince virtually wiped out an entire family and rumours say that it was because he was not let to marry the girl of his choice. What is the use of education if it can't make better humans? There is a lady in our apartment working on a research funded by some premier education institutes of this country. The subject? "Is the education model in India effective?" I have always had my doubts about the system of education in India (and abroad). Does it teach the ward to be successful? Does it prepare the student to face the challenges of this world? I doubt. I am tempted to follow the system of education as conceived by JK (J Krishnamurthy) where the student is allowed to learn at his / her own pace and also ends up learning a subject of choice. So what if the student wants to be a potter? Let them be the best potter one can ever come across. There is a livelihood in anything that we do. But we are only pushed by the rat race called life and we end up chasing the wrong things. Sadly, I am part of the system and I am still influenced by the same thoughts that my parents hoarded all their lives. I hope to change. It would be a long time when we can confidently say "We don't need no education... Hey! Teachers! Leave us kids alone!!!"

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