What I am studying?

I am perusing my education from last 18 years and it is obvious that every child in this country has right to get education. We have such a wonderful education where person can get education as per his parent’s capacity to spend. In current Indian society your Intel is judged by the money you can earn.

Many people talks and think about education system, it has its own advantages and disadvantages it’s not a matter of big concern to me. After getting admitted in higher education I became aware that whatever have been taught to us in class room is derived, impressed and taken from WEST. Any discipline for Indian Education mainly depends on western theories. When it is asked that why we are studying theories from west? There comes intellectual lazy argument that it is a result of imperialism and colonialism which imposed their education system to India. There rises another question in my mind that this country is free since last 60 years, why can’t we frame some theories which can have Indian context (except theories of natural science)? Whatever we get from west we adopt and try to put in Indian context especially in humanities and social sciences.
From the 1st grade (or even before that) we are studying western concepts wrapped in Indian context. Why Indian authors are viewed as inferior? Why can’t we develop our theories and methods in social sciences? Whatever is Émile Durkheim is saying has been said by Krishna in Gita. Why can’t we adopt Gita as a theory if we can adopt Durkheim’s positivist theory? Why Amerty Sen’s essays are not included in state board’s academic course? When will we be super power in terms of true intellect , because be technological intellect is mainly going to western countries ?

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