India imports a toxic culture of learning: says businessman in Gurgown

The parents of the middle class in India proudly raise readers. But do they mistake the weak children by mistake?

This is the uncomfortable question, Rajev Khaati, founder and MD in the Tashtam group, asking in the LinkedIn Viral Publication, which takes a direct goal to the “toxic learning culture” in India.

Katati wrote: “Parents celebrate the raising of digital books for their children instead of their courage in the real world.” His basic criticism? Consumption-books, courses, and certificates-be glorified, given the discipline of the real world’s mastery.

“Our children are connected, but they have been caught,” says Khatati. “Once, knowledge was strength. Today, it’s paralysis.”

Despite the endless access to online skills, motivational books, and a mobilization in life, urban children in India became “very educated and learned.” They freeze the positions of the real world, thinking rather than acting, and passing through success rather than building it.

At the heart of this crisis, he says, it is a dangerous illusion: “Information ≠ transformation.”

Khati is called the mania of performance in books: the 10 best menus posted on the Internet, children read about the grain while avoiding discomfort, and audio books that play indefinitely without applying one idea. “Reading without context, reflection, or work is intellectual masturbation,” he writes.

The root is cultural. “India imports a toxic learning culture,” says Khatati. Singing like reading 100 books per year and taking five courses at the same time that replaced actual experience with the excessive consumption of dopamine.

The result? “The theory, actually frozen. Great on paper, useless in a crisis. High intelligence, low elasticity.”

I called him to the parents clear: stop calculating books. Start calculating real world experiences.

“What did they build?” He asks. “What did they fail in? What are the difficult situations that they faced without helping you?”

Parents urge to stop isolating children from discomfort. “Let them suffer from pain. Let them move in the conflict. Let them discover things without Googling everything.”

Khati is pushing for a different kind of intelligence: “Raising children who can walk in chaos and remain calm …