Hypocritical Times: A Reflection on the Ethos of what it means to be a Dosco
The jewel of the court. For the last eight decades, we have been at the crest of the coming wave, the epitome of innovation in education. The School has always excelled at doing things differently, but for the last few years, in the name of unique, we have constructed the façade of a jewel around ourselves. We make those beyond Chandbagh believe what we want them to, but inside this lush, green campus it’s another story. We perpetrate acts of hypocrisy every day, and we don’t even know it. Education is not only our academia. It does not only comprise textbooks or tested knowledge but of what we learn in totality. It is what we mean when we hear the phrase ‘a well-rounded education’. However, it has also become the epicenter of the fractures in our jewel. An integral quality we look for in our new inductees is their love for reading. Yet, beyond the interview it holds no importance. On entering the Doon stream of life, we are submerged in layers of sport, co-curriculars, academia. ...