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Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 25 2016:
The colonial education systems imposed upon the people of Manipur have only produced parasitic and dependent psychology.
This has in turn led to engineering of local puppets who simply follow the dictates of New Delhi.
Such colonial education systems have come to play the role of a brain-washing machine.
The machine engineers serfdom of a unique kind who ultimately plays the role of delegated ruling class that acts only according to the whims of India.
Manipur has today descended into such a level of being colonised with subsequent downfall of its socio-economic and political fabric, continued the rebel leader.
The commodification of education and knowledge patterns have utterly alienated the masses from acquiring a democratic rightful education.
The darker side of commodification are the wholesome ruining of public educational institutions and collective failure which have led to systematic exodus of students, displacement of youth from their homelands, un-employment and severe colonial brain-drain.
In other words, capitalist commodification of education and knowledge has systematically deprived the poor section of the society from acquiring basic education and rightful processes of learning.
Today, education is a privileged system which the rich and 'haves' consider as their sole prerogative.
"In this way, we have come to a historical stage of inequality and class based deprivation.
Education of a commoditized kind has only produced degree-based learning and knowledge forms that degrade social and politics ethics.
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colonial education, therefore, needs to be overhauled so that the youths and the new generation could have an experience of learning their realities which in turn would instil a love for their lived-worlds, a love for their nationality", continued the statement.
A new education in terms of form and content for social relevance is an alternative to India's alleged colonial knowledge institutions.
The idea and practice of self-determination shall be possible when such a state of knowledge acquisition is ensured.
On the other hand, the onus lies with the oppressed people of Manipur to actually understand that India has been conspiring to dismantle the self-sufficient economic traditions of Manipur by implanting its propagandist post-colonial developmentalism.
India's developmentalism has only sustained a false economic consciousness amongst the struggling peoples since it has tried to legitimise a sense of being unable to survive without external support and funding mechanism which India calls 'grant-in-aid' economic system.
The false economic premise has ruined the fertile arable lands and resources of Manipur while increasingly making Manipur a dependent economy for subsistence and food-stocks.
The economic depression of Manipur has been used as an opportune moment for consolidation of India's alleged colonialism over Manipur, it continued.
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