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Faux Pas University to recall 3000 students to change their faulty value adoption filters !



It has become common place to confess. It is worth searching since when the turn to confession as a viable form of marketing was born. Initially it was a sincere attempt on the part of the Motor Vehicle manufacturers to put a wrong right. When the benefit hind sight affords the manufacturers to spot a defect in the architecture or a part of it, the company recalls a batch of products to address the defect. But going by the current spike in the rate of recalls, one suspects a movement which is more commercial in nature. Are there actual defects which prompt the recall of thousands of vehicles? Or are the defects deliberately manufactured? Something which could be routinely corrected in a periodic service, are these being blown out of proportions so that the company's profile could be uplifted? Are the motor vehicle manufacturers too hitchhiking on the confession bandwagon? Confess to sell. Confess without criming and sell. Confession as a market gimmick. 

What if the scenario can happen in the field of education? What if institutions begin to recall their products, students, once they become aware of the faulty inputs the students were fitted with during their education? Though not with the aforesaid, currently (apparently) common tendency to recall (to advertise) intentions, the move could have interesting tangents. How many of the students who have passed out from our schools and colleges will have to recalled for fixing the numerous leaky senses and shaky perspectives in their attitudes and value sets! How many of our teachers and managers, politicians and judges, religious heads and policy makers will have to be recalled for rewording their minds, installing insanity proof thought developers? Let's admit that it won't be an exercise in futility to speculate on what kinds of causes will be assigned for recalls by different kinds of institutions around us.  Will the institutions run by those who anchor themselves fully on religious principles recall their one time students to fix the communal intolerance? Will a Language School recall their products to set the orthodox rules straight? Will the medical schools recall the surgeons to service and refix the lopsided patient ethics ? Will the women's colleges recall their onetime students to reorient their sense of ownership? 

How about the competitiveness induced product recalls? In a period when recalls based on competitions for the market begin to dominate, what extra features will a school offer its erstwhile students? If the University concerned is to recall, for instance, some of our vice chancellors, what will it be for?  Will they be recalled for not possessing the integrity which is expected of a mature individual? There are many who fit that description. How many of these could be recalled for fixing their sense of self worth? What makes individuals push themselves to occupy chairs which they are least entitled to? The inflated sense of self rating which makes them blind to who they are may have come from the way they were educated. Can it be? Or can it be because the system failed to measure these persons before certifying them as fit for the world? Fit to teach and administer. Fit to lead and empower. 

Recall is a curious concept and we need to let it take the (extra) mile. We need to recall the play Refund in which a former student returns to his alma mater to claim a refund on the ineffective learning he received years back. The teachers had to fool him way from his senses ( a second time?!) to put brakes on the refund claim. The idea of a corporate recall and now an academic recall is raising spectres! Two thousand teachers recalled to test their understanding of what it means to be a 'professional' could be a good start. What could be better is a recall of a generation of politicians to get their brains washed regarding what they feel about the worth of the electorate. A recall it has to be to whack them on their heads to wake them up from the self induced power-hungry slumber. A recall to have the eyes washed of the tendency to be coated with myopia. Check the wiring to see if the head and heart are properly plugged. What is equally worthwhile will be a recall of the a million parents who are drunk with the worth of careers for their children. The parents who are recalled should be head-serviced and thought-fixed to make them capable of realising worth of offsprings and meaning of life. 

Recall needs to be replicated. Total recall is a worthy thought. 

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