Sunday, December 28, 2014

You should know

If you dread the thought of walking to the bus stop every morning to take the school bus
Your education has failed you
If you wonder sometimes whether anyone in your class is really your friend
Your education has failed you
If your classmates make fun of your hair-style, the color of your skin or the dullness of your school bag
Your education has failed you
If you are too scared to ask your teacher a question
Because you can't bear to look at the disappointment and impatience on her face
Your education has failed you
If you dream of some day showing all 'those' people who live in your nightmares
That you are not a failure, you're a hero, you done good,
Then your education has failed you
If the rain no longer makes you laugh
Or you've lost the key to the box  in which were all the people you could be at the same time
If you no longer are curious about unknown roads
If the world no longer seems to be multicolored
Or  a kite flying high above you doesn't fill you instantly with a deep longing for freedom
If the sight of  the poor, the hungry, the naked no longer hurt your soul
but seem like a natural backdrop to your aspiration for a 4 BHK house in the suburb with a flat screen TV and mall in the backyard
Your education has failed you
If you believe what TV tells you
Your education has failed you
If you have become a mute spectator
If you feel there's a lot of bad things happening but you have no power to make it right again
Your education has failed you.

Don't you want to start asking
Why. Has. Our. Education. Failed. Us. Even. Though. It. Fucking. Cost. A. Lot? 

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