Last Monday i was having the glance with Eagle's eye from the Terrace of the Academic block where my chamber is situated and basking in the crispy sun, i pondered about the clashes that quite often takes in the working environment. Believe me guys its sometimes fun to watch all these...
Let me talk about my working ethos. We all are familiar with the historical pages of India written that educational institute are supposed to be the Sanctum of the society and the teachers' staff room is the Sanctum Sanctorium...I dont know whether I ever got an opportunity to visit the Sanctum Sanctorium or not in my previous births...But in this life when I grew up..I borne a feeling that teachers are still my gurus and all elderly people working in my school, college and university are people of dignity and respect...
Let me talk about my working ethos. We all are familiar with the historical pages of India written that educational institute are supposed to be the Sanctum of the society and the teachers' staff room is the Sanctum Sanctorium...I dont know whether I ever got an opportunity to visit the Sanctum Sanctorium or not in my previous births...But in this life when I grew up..I borne a feeling that teachers are still my gurus and all elderly people working in my school, college and university are people of dignity and respect...
But things changed when I entered the profession...I got a chance to be always in the Sanctum Sanctorium...I felt lucky and fortunate that I accomplished my childhood dream...Soon the reality of the Sanctum came in front of me...Let me say here that I started my career with conventional university...
It was a shocking surprise that the people who worked for the Sanctum to run smoothly was considered to be like an outcast...I thought may be the orthodox caste system still there...the teachers were the Brahmins...the students the Kshatriyas...their parents are the Vaishyas...and the Administrative staff are the Shudras...That was probably the reason the other three castes are welcomed and greeted with love in the Sanctum but the lowest caste was blasphemous for everyone...all the other castes blamed them for every wrong things...soon I was also penetrated with this diseased thought and became a victim...But let me confess here, that at the back of all these castes I still hold them with the same dignity I had in my childhood...So my relationship with them was of a different kind...
Now let me say that within each castes there were always clashes...Professional Egos prevailed there... Power dynamics became more vigorous and visualized with clarity to every human eye...How strange! Administrative people fought amongst themselves, Parents fought with each other, students fought with others and last but not the least teachers fought amongst themselves...Reason! You will laugh if you know it...Its just ENVY and PRIDE...but of what? also varied differently...
Lets start from the top...Teachers...Permanent ones overpower the other (ad-hocs and guests) and look at them with an eye of Insignificance... permanents think that they are intellectually weak and so have no rights to be sitting with them...whereas the other thinks that the Permanents are proud of their stability...
Now the students...there is always a clash of their ideologies...if one is close to the upper caste they are considered to be a shadow...thus identities struggle amongst them...and the trait is is always noticeable is Competition...
Now the third...the parents...oh god! all kinds and varieties are seen...some want to be attached to the top caste...and the other to the other caste, that is always taking care what the students or classmates doing and trying to impose the same upon their child...Poor students -pressure from all corners make their lives miserable...
Last category...oh god...the boss of the institute is considered nothing less than God...rather the Priest of the Sanctum...so their touch even gives them piety...and all the others are thought to be of no use...
If any lay man enters this Sanctum..the person will have a glance of the Ancient caste system staunchly followed...
But today when I moved out of the conventional educational system and came to Distance learning system, I could visualize a demarcating change here...Very interestingly no caste system existed here...a different form of power dynamics run through it...What! No brahmins and No shudras..nor vaishyas nor khasytriyas....only two existed like in capitalist or in simple words like those medieval period of Indian history saw Feudal lords and the poor ruled class...but as now its an independent India...people dont have that kinda society but in their psychological world they still existed in that pattern...
Yeah, doesn't it sound strange? Yes it was on the onset I was really taken aback...But soon realized that it has to be like this...Let me put it this way...
The teachers think they are the backbone of the university...the administration thinks they are the rest of the skeleton...But amidst these they all fail to look that a skeleton doesn't complete a human body...one needs some vital organs and of course the flesh and blood...if I see my organisation...it looks like the vital organisations are the different heads of the several divisions within the system who are called in its own way as Academicians...The flesh is the students who gives the look of the university...and the bloodline is the study material which are basically prepared for the flesh....
Now if my organization is a human body, we need each part to be there for the body to function well and healthily...But certain clashes amongst anyone would create the body to be diseased and would require medicines and doctors...if the vital organs stop functioning then there wouldn't be any blood running in the body, if the backbone refuses to support the body, the body would lose its capability to be the intelligent vertebrate among all animals...and if the skeleton thinks that we dont want to be with the other body parts, then it would look like a ghost in the darkness...and if bloods are not there than the mere existence of the human body would perish...henceforth, all parts have to work with each other to let the body be healthy and fit....
so that whosoever is part of this body, would really feel that yes we still have Sanctum in this country were piousness and consecration are done on time...Why look down upon the other in such manner? Can't all prove themselves to be the Intelligent Vertebrate among all animal kingdom? Or still we exist in pre-historic era with Darwinistic approach of SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST and try to perish the other and stand proudly over the dead body and roar at our utmost voice? Then why should all consider educational institutes as Sanctums?
