1. Speaking Against The ‘de facto’
Status Enjoyed By Educational
Institutions
By Arvind Nedumaran

2. There are a lot more “Me’s”
• The book ‘The Teenage Liberation Handbook‘ is the single
most disruptive book to the Education business and
revolutionary and thought provoking to the teenage readers.
• It helps me better understand what I went through mentally
in high school.
• And I realize I’m not alone.
• People have started to speak for themselves about their
disappointment with the current system.
• The way we are blindly pushed into a mass ‘labour production
facility‘ without paying any heed to what each and every one
of the millions of students undergo during schooling every
year.

3. It doesn’t stop there
• The description given to ‘Schools’ in the book matches so
closely with colleges in our country.
• Our colleges are no better. There’s nothing called freedom
that we see around here.
• When I say that, most people fire back at me, saying it’s the
college I’m in. If I had made my way into one of the premiere
institutions of the country, the case might have been
radically different.
• If there are 10,000 spots that offer some kind of a pseudo
freedom, what’s the fate of the several lakh students that
pass out of schools every year.
• ‘Accept’ reality, believe that they aren’t good enough and
letting themselves to get sucked into a never ending
treadmill of mediocrity?

4. What is wrong
• This fact made me realize that something is fundamentally
wrong here.
• The most intelligent people are sidelined by the people who
are most obedient to the system.
• If somebody answers an unorthodox inner calling, they are
simply seen as a rebel.
• Who are we to decide what a legitimate call from one’s inner
self can be?

5. Who knows us better than us
• I personally feel nobody on earth is better qualified than
ourselves to tell us what we should and shouldn’t feel
passionate about.
• There might be people who can facilitate us making a clearer
decision.
• But nobody can be anybody else’s substitute in finding one’s
passion.
• An Inner calling is a natural process.
• But man has always been trying to ‘straighten up’ nature and
has eventually failed in almost all his pursuits to overpower
nature.

6. Break free
• When will we ever see a time when people can boldly and
naturally choose what’s right for them without being mocked
at, secluded from the society and ignored?
• I look forward to a change that I’d like to be an active part of.
I call all of you to join the movement.
• Pick a passion, an old hobby that you abandoned for the sake
of your boards, or just an activity you’ve always been curious
about. It may be anything; from underwater basket weaving
to just staring at the stars.
• Escape into one for while every day. When possible, take a
break from your routine and go off the grid.

7. It’s all worth it
• Think about what you’re doing and if it’s what you’ve wanted
to do or at least if you’re doing this because of no external
pressure.
• Think about all the life decisions you’ve ever made.
• Just make sure they are all in agreement with the ideals and
principles you’ve for yourself.
• The validity of most of those might have lapsed though their
effects continue to show.
• What you can do is, act upon the ones you can right now.
• It sure might involve a little unrest at home, among friends
and in social circles.
• But trust me, it’s worth all that.

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