Educational Autobiography - Desklib

Running Head: EDUCATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
EDUCATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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My name is A. I am belonged to Sikh religion. Punjab is my homeland when I was born
and brought up. We are three siblings. Actually I have a brother and an older sister. I have lost
my father at the age of eight during the battle of Kargil War of 1999. At that time he was posted
in Jammu and fought against the Pakistani trespassers. As a matter of fact, a year before that my
grandfather was passed away and as a result of that the whole family became devastated. My
father never stayed in home because of his service to the nation and seldom came home once or
twice a year. Therefore, my grandfather was supposed to hold entire responsibility of the family.
My sister who is two years older than me seemed too close to me at that time. My mother had to
deal with both the household and the agriculture. In this context, I forget to mention about the
agricultural practice of my family that is our ancestral tradition. We have six acres of land that is
designated to yield sugar canes. Therefore, all these entire agricultural tasks were performed by
my grandfather in the absence of my father. However, in course of time, he got a heart problem
and all the responsibilities were burdened upon my mother. She was twenty eight years old at
that time and had to take care of the new member of our family. My brother took birth in the year
1997. After his birth the responsibility of my mother had been escalated immensely that she had
to deal with the domestic household and at the same time took care of us and dealing with our
harvest lands. It can be stated that due to her dynamic acts in married life our education was
spread in an unequal way.
My elder sister got her fundamental learning in the local primary school and at the same
time she had to help my mother in cooking and other household staff. My grandmother had
passed away very long ago while suffering with age old diseases. It was my grandfather who
always motivated us to continue our study as long as we could. Despite of his motivation, my
mother did not like the way of my sister’s education. This was primarily because of the immense

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pressure on her to cope of both the domestic and outside situations. Moreover, some social and
economic underpinnings were also there that influence the decision of my mother. If I take the
1999 as a culmination point, it can be sated that at that time the situation was quite upside down
for the entire family. I did continue my education further but for my sister it was halted
permanently. The social and economic condition of the country was also put impetus in the
context of the education of my sister. In the capital and urban sectors women education was very
much appreciated and the families were literally sent their girl child to schools with lots of
enthusiasm. As a matter of fact, the situation was quite different in case of the rural portions of
the country. Lack of educational infrastructure in terms of schools, curriculum and the
motivation to educate everyone was spread all over the region. In fact, people were so sceptical
about women education. The patriarchal society did not give their women the right to
enlightened by the educational manifestation. Therefore, resembling the same vision my mother
did not support the practice of school going of my sister. Besides this, there was another factor
that resembled with the situation. It was based on the financial condition of my family. After the
death of my grandfather we suffered with grave financial crisis and as a result of that my mother
was unable to give finance in my sister’s education. Naturally, it can be presumed that the culture
of education was absent in my family and people had no idea about the importance and
significance of education. In fact, at that young age I too had zero idea about it. As a matter of
fact, often in the name of going school I bunked and went with my friends for doing nuisance.
Obviously, it hampered my initial learning and as a result of that I failed to get admission in high
school later.
During my high school phase I had witnessed a sharp change in my orientation towards
education and my interest towards the school curriculum gradually developed. As a result of that