March 15, 2023

A Moment of Reckoning

A Moment of Reckoning
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A Moment of Reckoning…

What did I lose by reading so many books?

What did I lose by learning their logical in their ‘maths’? 

What did I lose by being taught their ‘his-tory’ and critical thinking liberal arts?

What did I lose by being trained by their rational anthropocentric ‘science’?

What did I lose by sitting in concrete classrooms and offices for years and years?

What did I lose by letting them grade and mark me?

I lost my expansive and emergent authentic self. 

I lost my way home.

What did I lose by being trained to see the world through their Microsoft powerpoint and excel sheets? 

What did I lose by being conditioned to label myself and others illiterate/unintelligent/low IQ/developing?

What did I lose by being trained to play their finite competitive games?

What did I lose by ditching my local language for the sake of proper English?

What did I lose by letting them convert me into a “civilised individual” and a “citizen”.

I lost my expansive and emergent authentic self.

I lost my way home.

What did I lose by accepting their definitions of progress, beauty and success?

What did I lose by measuring my self-worth, self-respect and purpose through the lens of money and package?

What did I lose by trying to grab their institutions of power to bring social justice?

What did I lose by being indoctrinated to pray to their notion of “God” and following their fragmented spirituality?

What did I lose by running and running and running to become a winner in their ratrace?

I lost my expansive and emergent authentic self.

I lost my way home.

If you beat them at their own game, you have lost everything.

Maybe it's time for a different game?

- Manish Jain, Co-founder of Shikshantar Sansthan, Swaraj University, and the Ecoversities Alliance

#ecoversities #multiversities #swarajuniversity #educationforall #shikshantar #learning #factoryschooling #dumbingusdown

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