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Our current education system and parenting focuses on consumption based upbringing as a result of which development and larger issues of social responsibility and active citizenship have taken a back seat. The education imparted in schools today, makes us qualified for a good job but it fails to inculcate sensitivity towards issues that do not affect us directly. In addition, it does not impart the intelligence to understand and reflect upon the consequences of our actions on the poorest of the poor, the marginalized and the unheard sections of our society.
The development model that we have adopted is multi-directional and multi -dimensional growth, benefiting a few but leaving many behind. Rising sensex, glittering shopping malls, sky kissing buildings and four-lane roads may reflect the material prowess of a nation and a good “standard of living” of its people but it does not represent their “quality of life”.
With consumerism and market economy becoming the driving force of our lives; these physical manifestations of development have disastrous consequences for the environment. |
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| Posted on: 12 August 2008 |
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| Monsoon Wooding |
Our Wooders did it again! On a lazy Sunday, 10th August, about 50 Volunteers from St.Stephens and other Delhi Colleges fought lethargy to green up Vasant Kunj's Sector C,Pocket1.
We planted Kaner, Hibiscus, Kachnar and Chameli to add greens and flowers to the locality. |
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