Once incident in last week

During last week, I was traveling by a city bus to my office. On the way, bus stopped at a location. Two persons, who were looking like masons (workers from a construction site), boarded the bus and asked the bus conductor to issue them a ticket to a location (Shapurnagar). The bus conductor handed them two tickets and told them that bus will not go upto their destination (and will go upto balanagar, which is on way to shapurnagar).

My Observations:
1. Both Passengers were illiterate, and they could not read the bus board. As a result, they boarded a wrong bus.
2. The conductor did not give them a chance to get down at next stop, and take the correct bus, which would have taken them to their destination. Instead, He was probably interested only in getting them to buy tickets.
3. Both passengers were not aware of their basic rights. They took it as if it was their fate, did not ask to be allowed to get down at next stop, instead paid the fare, and probably would have taken another bus from last stop and obviously paid some more amount as bus fare.

If they would have got some education, what would have happened:
1. They would have been able to read the bus board, and would have boarded the right bus.
2. If they would have got some value education (on their rights), even if they would have boarded a bus wrongly, they would have been in position to ask the bus conductor to let them get down at the next stop so that they can catch correct bus.

Education may not make entire the population software professionals, but it should help people make right choices, avoid exploitation, and make them aware of their basic rights.

Education may not create revolutionaries, but will help create small change in society we live in. These small change will lead to a change in mindset, which itself will be probably a revolution......