Let’s evaluate our plans, programs, practices for self-dependence! Let’s view our relationships with the other nations and our position in the global context! Let’s judge the caliber and expertise of the people in the responsible posts! Let’s examine our understanding, internalization and respect towards our culture! Let’s analyze the identification and utilization of resources in our country! Let’s evaluate how useful our educational products have been for our nation! Let’s assess the strength, efficiency and productivity of the political realm!

Has our education system been able to unite us for our national interest? Has our education prepared us well for the challenges of life? Can’t we easily notice the wide and deep gulf between life and education in Nepal? How to imagine education to be life itself? Haven’t we failed?

We expect education to add lives to different aspects of our life. Has our education added or snatched it? Aren’t we hanging between two poles because of our education? Has our education inspired and facilitated us to conserve our cultural values? Hasn’t our education developed dependence from individual to national levels? After having a degree we usually look for someone to manage a job for us.

Has our education cultivated self-dependence and promoted innovation and entrepreneurship? Isn’t our education responsible for our pitiable diplomacy? Where do we have our vision, mission, goals, strategies and programs of development and self-dependence? The bitter reality is we don’t dare to move ahead without others’ support. Aren’t we gradually becoming ever dependent on others? Hasn’t our education failed?

Facts depict that our overall economic condition is still miserable, our developmental interventions are at the pace of the tortoise, we have a very weak diplomacy, our human development situation is quite low, environmental degradation and deterioration is alarming and there is an alarming encroachment upon our culture pushing some of our intangible cultural heritages to the brink of extinction.

Yes, our education has increased the number of degree holders, and it has reduced illiteracy in figures but I feel that it has made us more uneducated making us more indecisive, irrational and dependent. Aren’t we gradually losing our sustainable living? Don’t we feel our human values eroding away?