Engineering Dreams Vs Reality  Acharya Prashant - video Dailymotion

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00:00If there are movies that equate engineering colleges with fun clubs,

00:06then this is what the result will be.

00:09An entire generation of youngsters will opt for engineering thinking

00:14that the place will be simply a laughter club,

00:19or chill out with the friends, hang out with girls,

00:23that kind of opportunity.

00:25And that's not going to materialize.

00:27And then there will be frustration.

00:28Engineering colleges, management colleges, all kinds of places,

00:32whether you're talking of professional education or education in humanities,

00:36they're all great places to be in.

00:38I think it transforms, it metamorphoses the child into the man,

00:44the caterpillar into the butterfly,

00:47but obviously not in the way pop fiction or pop movies demonstrate.

00:52So one has to have some maturity to understand that fiction is fiction.

00:57Fiction does not even attempt to be loyal to the truth.

01:01Its primary allegiance is towards worldly success,

01:07the revenue it rakes in, the weekend collections.

01:10So let's not take all that too seriously.