India will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore - what Tagore thought of institutionalised education is true even today
Tanmay Lahiri
May 6, 2010

India will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore - whay Tagore thought of institutionalised education is true even today.Education in colleges, schools take people nowhere. It is the freedom of education that finally thrives. Today we indulge in commercialization of education and count education as a money making and lazy career opportunities.

On May 9, when people across the country will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, Kolkata-based St. Xavier's School and College will join in the celebrations for its former student, whose association with the institution, though brief, was close to the poet's heart.

Tagore just like Microsoft's Bill Gates could not take institutional education. Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard. Tagore learnt from his private tutor at home. He spent just two years ina catholic school in Kolkata - St. Xavier's School and College, a part Calcutta University.

There is a lot to learn from Tagore and Bill Gates. Both are artists. Both created miracle in their own way. In 1913 it was virtually impossible to receive a Nobel prize in Literature for an Indian native. But Tagore did it by virtue of his caliber. It was literally impossible for any one to challenge IBM, DEC and large computer companies in late seventies and early eighties. Bill Gates made it and became the richest man in the world from literally nowhere.

Both refused institutional education. Today in India, in America, in every part of the world, universities and educational institutions are epiceneters of laziness and lack of creativity. They teach stuffs that is outdated. They charge huge fees. They are money center collection firms that live of scare that without formal education one cannot make it in life.

Real research happens in commerical laboratories and developing county's Government research labs. Trillions of dollars are spent by Governments in reasearch fundings to these eductional institutions. Most of it are wasted.

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