Ram Gopal Varma on Education System
The agitation over NEET paper leaks and the subsequent resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan created a sensation and brought the CJP into the limelight.
In the meantime, maverick director Ram Gopal Varma known for his frank views, came up with a shocker on the education system. He came up with the following post.
EDUCATION SHOULD BE KILLED
Memorise. Write . Pass. Get degree. Get job. This was the formula paper thrust upon us , but now it is high time to tear it up
A medical student burns five years of his time doing MBBS, two years of post-graduation, then two or three more for specialisation, totaling 10 years to learn what the A I in his pocket already knows.
The doctor conducts tests, sees data and makes diagnosis from his accumulated knowledge to suggest treatment. Now A I is doing all that with far more precision and unimaginably faster without fatigue or preoccupation. Geoffrey Hinton, the man who built the foundations of modern AI , is shouting from roof tops that A I will do everything far better.
All experts agree that A I will keep take over what doctors are currently doing in the next 1 or 2 years. So why exactly are students still preparing for NEET or joining medical courses? When diagnosis is algorithmic and surgery is robotic, the human doctor slowly starts becoming a middleman for which he doesn’t need to do a course for 10 years.
Teachers still say “It’s in the syllabus.” Parents still say “Everyone else is doing it.” The youngster who dares to ask “Why am I memorising what my phone already knows ?” is treated like a radical instead of the only sane person.
This is not about demeaning parents or teachers. They either do not know or living in denial. When the conventional education system is already in the mortuary why are we refusing to bury it?
Everyone needs to buckle up and kill the education system in its present form , before young peoples futures are killed by the elderly ignorants
The only hope is to steer them super fast towards A I and throw everything else into the dust bin.
- Pramod Nandivada
