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EDUCATED ILLITERATE

           Oh! What is this "Educated Illiterate" ? Who is this? This is me. This is you and many of us.  We have degrees, we have tags but what we don't have is knowledge. I am a "proud" science student. Proud of choosing science stream, proud of being topper. But being topper doesn't guarantees that I am intelligent. But I am intelligent.Yes I am, but my intelligence has been transcended. I am neither an IITian nor a part of any reputed institute. I am a " MIDDLE CLASSian" who goes to a regular college, with middle class faculty. We are taught different things and their proofs and are instructed to do them all to score best, but where is my conceptual knowledge. It is lost somewhere. I am struggling hard to get into depth of all this but I can't.            Let me share with you a story. There is a friend of mine, educated from a government school of a village. She lacks conceptual knowledge but is very hardworking. She has passed her boar