“A conceptualized civilization reflects upon its mere existence. It’s like a snowball being pulled upon by gravity, which gains more volume and speed, as it progresses.”

I have never had such a week like the last one in my whole academic career. Two presentations back-to-back in two days on Tuesday and Wednesday followed by a final exam on Thursday. And ever since I worked like crazy to subsidize my living expense. This is a big tangle any international student will face in a country where in the index or cost of living is way too higher than the base country; the country of the students origin.

But this concept is nothing new to any western country. No matter who your dad is, you need to work to subsidize your share of living for yourself. I saw an advertisement on a public transport bus while waiting for one. (I admire the mixed advertising industry of Australia. They sometime bring in the best of advertisements to the market scenario and other time you will feel like hitting yourself with a $2 footwear.) But here this ad made lot of sense to me. It said something like “After 18 you go to an University, but first we will teach her to be independent”. It was for some sort of a university wherein you become a boarder.

Independence is a relatively big term. It attracts lots of adolescence. When the idea is induced during the very same years, the chances of learning are lot more than afterwards. I am not trying to say that it’s not existent in India. Though I lived in my parents shadows, I was given my share of freedom and respect for my points-of-view. But the difference in here is that, you don’t even get that umbrella to a greater extent.

I know few of my Aussie friends living outside their homes, since they feel it’s an obligation to do so. This is why may be there are lots of baby boomers, who are being to suffer some worst case scenarios. Due to the efficiency in the health care systems in Australia and the “healthy” country as it is, the death rates in Australia are much lesser than an average country.

This has a particular reason also behind it. The baby boomers here have a life. The social architecture is built upon in such a way that you have the best time of your life when you are retired. The Super-annulations compared to something similar to Gratuity in India, are being devised to calculate in such a manner that, first they are not taxable and more importantly form the average salary of the last five years before your retirement. By which you will receive that amount every year till the age of 95 (if you are alive!). There is a problem here. Due to such a social architecture there is this problem which is more evident in the society that experience gets rewarded than education.

The prime assumption of this is that knowledge is not proportional to education, which is untrue in most cases. So the corporate society lays emphasis on an individual who is more experienced regardless of the qualification than an individual who has passed out of a good business school for instance. I am not trying to say that it may be untrue. But that doesn’t undermine the fact that Australia has more Nobel laureates than India. The significance of this is that, there is rift in the society between the work culture and the education society. An academic will perceive his own paths of illusion by becoming a scholar, in most instances, than to try becoming a corporate super head.

If you compare Australia with some progressive or progressed nation, the difference you will see is in terms of the entrepreneurs in the society. All of us have learned a great deal from works of Peter Drucker and many more along his path of chimera, who believed in entrepreneurship societies. To a greater extent even I believe in the same perception. Sometimes I get a feel that Australia may be a socialist country. When I mean Socialist, it is not evident in the surface when you see. But if you try to exploit the undermining point of view, you find the difference.

Australia believes in equity and equality doctrines, which they have been able to keep it running for sometime now. Think deep inside and then you will realize that these two terms are purely myths. It is certain there cannot be any nation which enforces equity principles till it fades away. I will say this illusion is given way. Due to the problems in lack of man power to exploit the manufacturing and industrial atmosphere, the perils of capitalization have become delusional.

But the value for quality education is extensive here. On comparison to few US universities, I will say they are lot more quantifiable, in terms of the cost advantage they provide with eminence of the output. Due to the social architecture it may happen that, a good student may not get a job in his desired field of excellence.

Also to add I would say that this concept is by enlarge changing. With the introduction of amendments in the ‘Permanent Residency’ policy, there seems to be more hope of better talents who can be induced into the working frame of the society than never before. The amendments are expected to be introduced very soon. We will have to wait and watch to spot any significant changes and impacts it can make.  

In short Australia has come up a long way from its convicts mentally. It was a place where mediocrity was accepted but not anymore!

Filtered by Sambhar……