Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed..

My take on this issue:

This statement is the very negative form of human of human behavior. I do not agree with this statement.

We human beings have come to the state where we are today by taking the wrong, unconventional paths and making mistakes. It is very essential for people to make mistakes, and hence choose the wrong path before they actually get to the right one.

The task of an educational institution is not to persuade or dissuade a person to take a path which they think is the right one for the candidate. If that was true Steve Jobs would have never left college unfinished, or Galileo would have never been born to discover the fact that earth is not flat.

Although time and again the institutions somehow think that it is their duty to persuade a person to take to a path where they think that person should go. But these paths are the paths which are already laid out, and someone will always take them.

A path which no one has taken yet will only lead to a new one, and for which, the decision should rely only on the hands of that candidate.

All an institute could and should do is to lay out the information to each fields of study and explain to the student the success which has already been achieved. But, if they force the student to take a path for a specific success, a path to unbound success will never be achieved.

The fact of today’s world is exactly what this statement is stating. People are fearful. They want a stable career and a stable life, which is not bad at all. But the truth is, if everyone does that we will never flourish. Human race will die in a blink of an eye.

Finding new methods of success is what makes humans human. And depriving them of this discretion by enforcing a “right path to success” is just inhuman.

To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.

My thoughts on this issue:

Major cities of any society give us a mixed sort of information. When I think of major cities whether it is in any country in the world, some big cities like San Francisco, New York, London, Mumbai, Sao Palo, Beijing, Tokyo, come to my mind.

In terms of culture, what exactly do we find here? We find here a cosmopolitan sort of culture. People from all over the state, country and world arrive here for the purpose of making livelihood, traveling, or studying. With them they bring the culture of their own society, and gradually all the culture gets intermingled, and present a very homogeneous blend of overall culture. This blend does not describe how the people of the native society are.

It takes a lot of effort to understand the culture of such a society if we are to only study it in the major cities. What we will have, may be such a homogeneous mixture that it will be hard for us to tell that a particular kind of cuisine belongs to which culture and to what extent. Therefore studying a culture in major cities of a society is not very wise.

A seeker can find the true essence of the culture of any society more effectively in less known cities or towns, or may be in villages. But towns would give one the best view of what they are looking for. In fact, if a tourist decides to spend even a smaller time in a less known town of a society, they will get to know much more about it and will themselves be able to inculcate or inherit more of the true nature or characteristics of that society. Being in the major cities will only give them a chance to be more comfortable in the cosmopolitan arena.

My take on this issue is not in agreement with the given statement. According to my understanding a Major city seldom gives out the true essence of a society hence it is not advisable to read the culture of a society in Major cities.

An essay on technology and human brain's curiousness

As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.

I have very strong faith in human brain. I believe that human beings have evolved up to this level where they are able to build technology to think for themselves, and going forward from here there is no limit for human mind’s evolution. Every new technology definitely brings a lot of comfort to humans in every way, whether it is physical or mental. And hence restricts the amount of effort that they have to put through to get something done. But, it also gives them enough extra time to let them evolve themselves from the state they are to a new level of thinking.

It is indeed true that we humans whenever we get the time and a mode of relaxation we tend to incline ourselves there very easily, but even that cannot in any circumstance overcome the fact that human mind is extremely curious. You only have to give it enough time, it is capable of finding a food for thought and is an extremist. It will take a single spark of thought to new dimensions of imaginations and realities which actually becomes common realities for those who are scared of exploring or are prone to laziness when given an opportunity.

Therefore here is my strong opinion on whether the thinking abilities of humans will deteriorate with the advancement of technology, I think that it will not happen. The mind is a curious being. And this mind has no bounds. Whatever new obstruction you bring to it, it will successfully use it as its means to achieve something miraculously new.

The survivor phase for human beings on this planet or in this Universe is not even close to an end. And until human have the capability to evolve, they will live. And technology can only make the life of plebeian a toy in the hands of technology, but the bright minds will always exist and they will always break the hurdles in the path of advancement. 

Now let’s see this in the light of technology for the plebeian or the common man who avoids thinking. Today, what I see is that every new generation is coming across as smarter than the previous one. And it is not just because of the information technology, but also because of the ability of the mind to relate with the technology and to be able to use it. So a person who has never been more than a mundane user of means at his ends is now trying to learn something. He is trying to enforce upon him a new technology and hence is learning something out of his own comfort zone.

When a person does that, when a person tries to break the comfort zone and achieves a new reality, he in the process also broadens his frame of reference, and hence is more susceptible to accepting new realities, and out of the inherent nature of his curious mind, forces himself to think and apply it to circumstances around him. This is also a kind of thinking that he does.

Therefore, although technology brings laziness in thinking it also bores people out of laziness and helps them find something more and something new to think about.