Re: [Assam] something about corruption

Tue, 03 May 2005 06:20:28 -0700

Title: Re: [Assam] something about corruption
At 8:12 PM -0700 5/2/05, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
I agree with the president. Charity begins at home (and in elementary school).
Dilip



O'Deka:


Are you suggesting that your generation and mine grew up without any moral foundation, either  from home or from elementary school?


To accept your contention would mean that we did not, that is why the nations leadership today--your contemporaries and mine, are so without any moral compunction.


Of course I reject the notion entirely. Because I know that most of the people I grew up with are capable of being as moral as Dilip Deka or Rajen Barua or Ram Sarabgapani or any such icon of kharkhowa-morality.


The other questions that comes to mind are:

        1: If parents of our generation or those after us too,
        were/are incapable of providing the moral foundations to their
        progeny, HOW will it change for the other generations to come?

        Are you not implying that because Dilip Deka or Rajen Barua or Kalam
        Saheb wishes so, it will happen miraculously? Would that not be a
        profoundly simplistic wish? A delusion in fact?

        2: What has  been the state of elementary education in Assam or
        the vast majority of schools in India? And who teach those kids?
        Where do the teachers get their own MORAL FOUNDATIONS to pass on
        to their charges--the pupils?

        If society's most privileged, the parents of the present , corrupt
        generation that leads the nation failed to impart moral education
        to their  progeny, at their homes; how do you suppose the high-school
        graduates or at most a BA from a local college who are the elementary
        school teachers, have the moral wherewithal to instruct that future
        MORAL generation to save India from itself?

        3: Furthermore, what is the source of morality in India? Where do
        the people get their moral education from? Do they derive it from
        their religious scriptures and leaders, or from secular ethics?

        In the former, if it is lacking today, where will it come for better
        moral foundations tomorrow? And if the religious teachers were
        either ignorant or frauds yesterday or are so today, how would
        things change, I mean unless one is depending on bigger and more
        temples or more effective bribing of the gods?

        If it were the latter, secular ethics that has proven to be
        schmethics, then who will train better teachers to impart truly
        secular ethics on the generations to come? And where will they get the
        bribe money to go get those plum elementary school teache jobs for life?


Need I go on? I am sure you catch my drift. Now don't go silent on us to
leave us reeling in our own despair. Tell us how!

The least you can do :-).

O'm









[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What would be the best way to bring down the level of corruption to the minimum,if not completely,in a state like Assam? President A Kalam,in his Republic day address to the nation said " There are only three members of the society who can remove corruption ----They are father,mother and elementary school teacher."
Is corruption then a problem of moral character ? Or,is it something to do with the transformation of our  system?
What is your view ?
KJD
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