The Mystic Ranger

For those of you came here to just know the answer, very bluntly put — I don’t know.

That per­haps why I asked the ques­tion in the first place. Also because the ques­tion trou­bles me. When I used to do it, I never even thought about it. Just like I never thought about any­thing I did at that time (:age). I was made to write the Eng­lish as well as the Hindi alpha­bet every­day, at least once. With the Hindi alpha­bet, my mother gave me spe­cial moti­va­tion — They even ask it in the IAS exam and peo­ple often don’t know it! Hence, I should! It seems embar­ras­ingly hilar­i­ous now.

But the impor­tant ques­tion remains. Why should I remem­ber the alpha­bet. In today’s world I don’t see any point of it. In my life — did/does it help me in my usage of lan­guage? As I speak or write it? In any­thing I do? I don’t see if it does.

In my life, the only place that orga­ni­za­tion might help is that it would be a basic lay­out for me if I start out to design a font. Which I might at some time. And that is fol­low­ing the fact, that it per­haps helped me remem­ber all the shapes. But really? Is that it? Don’t you  fell grossed out?

I do. Because I don’t see my past as my ages — I see it more as my classes, and the essen­tial things I learnt in those (wherein essential=remarkable). And I see that my entire 5 years of life before I started class 1 was actu­ally sim­ply spent on this! The alpha­bet! (Mind you I’m not crit­i­ciz­ing the Hindi alpha­bet at all. It’s just so awe­some the lines in which let­ters are col­lected imply the part of the mouth used to speak them, with the eccen­tric last alpha­bet in each line being the one for which you also use your nose. And even other stuff — Hindi, San­skrit, and most stuff specif­i­cally Indian, are pretty cool. )

This is also one of the vents when I’m feel­ing angry at our Eng­lish edu­ca­tion entirely. I think it sucks so bad, I’m begin­ning to have a ter­ri­ble hatred towards all ped­a­gog­i­cal Eng­lish teach­ers. Mainly for the Lit­er­a­ture sec­tion. I love read­ing books, and the sto­ries and the stuff we’re asked to. I hate the fact, that when a ques­tion says, “Express your opin­ion…”, or “What are your views…” I never have the option to keep them mine. Espe­cially in usual school exams. This prob­lem emanated most, when in one of my mon­day tests last year — the teacher crossed out an answer of “what your views on.. [some­thing about the frog and the nightin­gale nice poem]”. And I felt shocked.Espe­cially when the teacher said, “Your answer is wrong”. Dude! That is a lan­guage. Not math! You can’t say an opin­ion is wrong! No opin­ion is wrong. And I mean that absolutely. No opin­ion is wrong. That obvi­ously has the par­al­lel impli­ca­tion, no opin­ion is right either. That is why I wrote that ran­dom incon­clu­sive post on stop hav­ing opin­ions. Cause my mother can reach shout­ing lev­els to say, “A cer­tain thing is wrong. And there can be no deny­ing that!” It is absolutely absurd to think so.

Of course I bifur­cated ter­ri­bly, but the point was that the ques­tion should actu­ally read “What are your teacher’s views on such and such event?”. Because that is what we are expected to right in the end. This anger is also from the fact that our cur­rent Eng­lish teacher has inter­pre­ta­tions which are rad­i­cally dif­fer­ent from the ones I have, lately. We have a story called the “Sum­mer of a Beau­ti­ful White Horse”. A dude called Mourad says, “I have a way with horses”, “I have a way with dogs”, “I have a way with farm­ers”. Not in con­se­cu­tion, but over the story, and with sup­port­ing rel­e­vant things hap­pen­ing around — most of them sup­port his state­ment. Hence, our teacher actu­ally wants to write, “He was such a clever boy, he had a way with horses, dogs and farm­ers.” Now I think that inter­pre­ta­tion is hilar­i­ously naive. I think that boy “as stated by his brother, was a crazy dude. He strong belief in his capa­bil­i­ties, which was a base­less belief, but immense self-confidence nev­er­the­less. The events that hap­pen go on to affirm his beliefs, and exhibits the strong and self-confident resolve in the boy which drove him to live life the way he wanted to. In the route of which he even bent his clan’s tra­di­tions, and etc. shit”.  Hence, I think the edu­ca­tion sys­tem sucks. Over­all, and everywhere.