Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Education-Personality: Chapter 7

Chapter – 7

Personal Blossoming – Job and Professional relations – Affiliations

In personal blossoming profession and job relations play crucial role after the student and youth stages. Those who perform the caste professions would have the impact of professional friends, relatives and others on their personal blossoming and blossoming of life.

Why respect and personality depending upon the professions and jobs?

The professions and jobs of Patwari, Reddy, Patel, Brahmin Priest etc. determine their relations and affiliations accordingly. The relations of the officers and employees in the revenue department will be in accordance with the job they do. The relations of a car dealer will be with those people who sell and buy cars. They learn to talk pleasantly from the people they interact with. Those people with the need of dealing with land tax, land measurements, caste certificates, ration cards and voter lists would have relations with the offices of the revenue department.

It need not has to be specially mentioned about the behavior of the officers and the employees in the police department. They look at every one as thieves and criminals. And they try to grab money by hook or crook by observing the defects in the people. But these characteristics in the police doesn’t come to them by birth. They acquire those characteristics by enjoying power in the job. Advocates, lobbyists, politicians, black-marketers, thieves and those who protect them develop relations with the police department.

Parents would bee line to marry their children with the employees working in the revenue department. In the same way doctors, engineers, professors, lecturers, teachers and others acquire some special behaviors, cultures, and relations as part of their jobs. All these things tend to mould their personalities.

Good teachers who collect heavy tuition fee tend to develop relations with the parents of the upper caste and upper class. In such a situation the interpersonal motivation promotes mutual growth. The teachers who work in government schools tend to have relations with the children of lower caste and poor. They will have relations with the people of lower castes and poor, whose children live in government welfare hostels, B.C. and S.C hostels. The influence of those down trodden people and students will be there on the personal blossoming of those teachers and their children. In the same way the police mentality will be reflected in their families and children. Their children either will become like them or the opposite of them.

Movements – revolutions based upon profession

The job and professional relations and affiliations create a kind of culture in the people involved in them. A philosopher called Karl Marx proclaimed that the relations, culture, affiliations and needs of workers will be alike. He called the entire workers of the world to unite without the barriers of caste, religion, region and country. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Gramsci and other Marxists called upon the workers to build movements and win over the state power and run the government on the lines of proletarian dictatorship

Profession has time and spatial boundaries

The first and second world wars prove that workers have a motherland or fatherland and that class gives priority to the interests of its race or country. So also there are time and space boundaries to the profession. Communist governments formed in Russia and China only within the limitations of the national interests. Communist party leaders became ministers and secretaries in those governments. But the leaders emerging from the working class did not grow to become ministers and officials or a much bigger scale. The middle class intellectual came in to power in the name of the working class. The same thing happened in India as well as many countries in the world.