University Campuses

Village? Town? City? Metro Cities? What we look for while looking for some degree? 

Degree? Campus? Facilities? Success rate? Failure rate? Aesthetic Value? Spaces? 

Much more than that? Or perhaps, just to get some place somewhere to be part of some rat race? Biggest problem with our education system is that it has already become a harsh rat race. Primary school students started becoming part of that rat race by forgetting the luxury of having enough time for play and relaxation and in turn learning. This system has started making them robots, kinda by birth. At primary school level, they carry weight of bag and books, more than their own weights. Among middle and lower middle class, it's worst. They wanna make their chidren competitive enough to take on those children, whose parents are highly educated and having resources. Those parents whose children learn so much without making any afforts as they have environment. 

Now think about such middle class parents situation, when their children reach at University level? What kinda competition they wanna enforce on their children and by what kinda ways? Fact is in the process, by their harsh ways, they take away from them the essentials of life ingredients itself. Just to satisfy their own egos, or for the benefit of their children? Maybe, discussion for some other post.

Different people may have different choices. But given options, probably most will feel like:

High rises chock me

Crowdy places repel

Concrete feels like poison.

Wonder at times --

So much earth and resources are available for human dwelling. Then why this system creates places like that?

Campuses which empower rather than focussing on reservation. Reservation, which creates further divisions of creamy layers and poor bases. Reservations, which have no end, but continuity beyond logic.

Campuses which believe in adoptions of ideas, people and places to make them sustainable and renewal. Places, having non toxic water, land and air. Places having some aesthetic values.

What world needs? 

More village campuses, town campuses, tribal area campuses, campuses off cities, campus far away from big cities or metro cities. Not high rise and crowdy campuses or surrounded by such spaces. But campuses having breathable spaces, walkable sapces, cycle spaces, renewable spaces, sustainable spaces. Not just plain areas, for some high rise buildings but having some water spaces, some desert spaces, some snowy spaces, some forest spaces. Spaces, which provide natural instinct explorations and care for mixed races, cultures, people of diverse background. Not just mechanical spaces, which run after money and honey at any cost. Solutions of financial problems should not be like creating more problems. Like making humans robots and part of full of stress rat race. Such a race, which takes away life's essential ingredients itself. Where people forget what life is. Today's most diseases are part of this rat race and lifestyle, - -system

I have not seen many university campuses, though have visited many online. Among a few, I have seen or visited till now, University of Florida, Gainsville, USA, is my type of choice campus. Vast area, full of nature, open spaces, having good infrastructure and people of diverse background, respecting and caring for each other. Competitive, yet stress free environment. Where one can watch aligators even on a campus lake. And lots of bats fying away from a bathouse, along some green space. And one can only wonder, what type of campus is this? Campus and aligators and bats and agriculture spaces also? Campus and military people on campus? On that, beautiful buildings having so much spaces all around and people from so many countries. Wonder, why India does not have even a single campus like that?