Good Schooling – Bad Education

A very famous writer had once said that – don’t let your schooling interfere with your education.  The same writer had again said that – in the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. The writer went by the name of Mark Twain and he talked about school boards, because MBA institutes were not invented at that period of time.

Why this sudden, brutal attack, you must be thinking. Let me tell you a story and will leave you to make the decision yourself…………..

It all started with a small joke when the Tea boy of some office, who does not have any education or so I suppose, went to serve tea to some of the employees. One of them asked him, “Where are we going for picnic this time?”

He replied, “Don’t know. Do you have any suggestion?”

Another one of the gang chuckled and suggested, “Why don’t you ask sir to take us to Maldives. We will have a groovy time there.”

Tea boy thoughtfully nodded his head. “Where is that place?” he asked.

“Near Diamond Harbour,” one of the gang spoke out. “We can be there in one and half hour.”

The face of the young man brightened up and he said, “I will have a talk with sir.”

Please keep in mind that I was not physically present to hear this exchange of words. I got it second hand and you can raise an objection, yelling hearsay. Anyways……hearsay is fun and God wants you to have fun and honor life. So here goes the rest………….

Some time later, the desk phone of the above mentioned gang rang and one of the girls picked it up. “Hello,’ she said.

The tea boy asked from the opposite side, “What was the name of the place?”

“Maldives,” she replied in a reluctant voice.

“Okay,” he said and disconnected the phone.

The gang exchanged a worried glance. If this reached the ears of the boss, everyone would be in a big mess. Then one of the gang said, hopefully, “I don’t think he has gone to the big boss. He must be in the office of the HR.’

Everyone brightened up and flashed a smile. One of them called up the desk of the HR.

The phone rang for a couple of times before the HR picked it up. “Hello,” she said.

“Is the tea boy there?” the caller asked.

“Yes,’ HR said. “The plan you made for picnic is good. But we can’t go to Maldives in this rain. I will tell sir to make the arrangement in the winter.”

The gang exchanged glances again. They could not decide whether the HR was joking or serious. Noticing the tone of her voice, they decided, the HR was dead serious and she wanted to go to Maldives in one and half hour to have a picnic.

Well, how it ended I won’t tell you. Of course we all had some fun talking about this. But the bottom line is, this HR is an MBA in Human Resource and she has the proper schooling background. I just wonder what Mark Twain would have thought of these new age degree holders, had he been alive. Don’t you?