It Wasn’t the Schools. It Was the Drawing Rooms
It Wasn’t the Schools. It Was the Drawing Rooms. A personal hypothesis on India’s education system and why we’re missing real breakthroughs Every few months, the same reel does the rounds: someone sits across a podcast mic and declares that India’s education system kills creativity. That rote learning has made us obedient workers instead of original thinkers. That we produce employees, not innovators. I’ve sat with this argument for years. And I don’t think it’s entirely wrong. But I do think it’s misdiagnosed. My hypothesis is simple: we did the best with what we had . The system isn’t blameless—but it’s not the villain either. If anything, curiosity wasn’t killed in our classrooms. It was killed in our homes. And I say this with empathy, not accusation. Our parents had valid reasons. They were building safety nets. They weren’t trying to kill our spark. They were just afraid the fire might burn us. We asked the education system to do one job—and it did it well Let’s re...
