THE 10 PARADOXES OF SCHOOL.

1.WE TRAIN FOR CAREERS WHOSE JOB DESCRIPTION DOES NOT EXIST AS YET.

The world is dynamic.The careers of nearly half of the world's working class did not exist a decade ago! Even the traditional careers have undergone so radical changes in the recent past that the day you get the job,you realise you are illiterate.

2. LIFE TESTS EVERYTHING ELSE APART FROM WHAT YOU LEARNT IN SCHOOL.

Makes school look either funny or stupid.More than ever before we know that success in school is no guarantee for success in life.

3.TEACHES LOVE,PATIENCE,HONESTY....ALL THE VIRTUES....BUT...

Adds a rejoider..."Don't trust too much.The world is a bad place!" The school is cornered?

4.IF THE COMMUNITY IS BAD,BLAME THE SCHOOL.IF THE SCHOOL IS GOOD,THE COMMUNITY TAKES CREDIT!

What do we say to the black sheep of the family?"What do they teach you in school?"School makes society.Society makes school sick.

5.THE PARADOX OF CONTINOUS REDUNDANCE.

Whatever invention school creates today,we shall frown upon it tomorrow and call it archaic!

6.THE IRONY OF THE MAINSTREAM.

You learn more from outside the mainstream school than from school itself.The breaktime banter turns out to be more significant in life than the calculus lessson! School just facilitates learning.As far as provision of education is concerned,school performs poorly.By teaching her clientelle,school necessiates her own demise!

7.TRADITION vs. DYNAMISM.

To maintain the traditions or to move on with the times is a hard decision for school to make.School says that a people without tradition are a people without identity.Yet we know that there is  only one constant in life:Change!

8.OBEY THE RULES.

School teaches you how to obey all the rules.Life demands that you choose the rules to obey.....

9.WHAT DO WE TEACH?

If we specialise too much,our graduates are said to be irrelevant in a new world order.If our content is too broad,they are called jerks of all trades and masters of none!

10.INVESTMENT.

We want to make a minimal investment on education,and reap maximum benefits from it.Like those who want to go to heaven but do not want to die!