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of other things. It has nothing to do with the person being taught, its whole work is to create efficient slaves.
And whatsoever you call I.Q., the intelligence quotient, has nothing to do with intelligence. It is memory quotient -- it is M.Q.! One who can memorize things well and can reproduce them exactly as he has been taught is thought to be intelligent. But he is not intelligent, he just has a good memory, and memory is nothing much to brag about -- a computer can have a memory and it has a better memory.
I was in continuous trouble during my university days. My professors were concerned about me. A few were very much against me because I was not obedient, and a few -- those who had some idea what intelligence was -- loved me, but their concern was that I might not be able to pass the examinations, because examinations require you to just reproduce ready-made answers.
One of my professors, the head of the department at Sagar University, Dr S. K. Saxena, was so concerned -- he loved me very much -- that he again and again told me, 'You need not answer anything according to you, remember it, you have to answer according to the textbook and whatsoever is written there. Don't bother about whether it is right or wrong -- nobody is asking you whether it is right or wrong -- we are simply asking you what is written in the textbook.'
He reminded me even when I was entering for my final examinations for the M.A. He took me to the university hall where the examination was going to be held and whispered in my ear, 'Remember, you are not supposed to give spontaneous answers! '
I told him, 'I will see.'
He said, 'Look, can't you even say yes?'
And when my oral examination was being held a Mohammedan professor from Aligarh University came to preside over it. Dr Saxena, my head of department, was present; he told me, 'He is a Mohammedan -- very fanatic! Don't annoy him, don't irritate him! Just give exact answers point by point -- and you need not tell any jokes! And remember one thing: I will be there, and if you go astray I will kick your feet underneath the table to remind you not to go astray and to come to the point, to
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