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Why the Poor Don't Kill Us (Chapter 5)

These excerpts from Manu Joseph’s book, Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us, offer a scathing critique of the Indian education system and its role in maintaining social hierarchies. The author argues that academic degrees and standardized IQ tests often function as tools for class subjugation, rewarding those who can mimic the elite while trapping the poor in a pursuit of "false hope." Joseph suggests that the system was historically designed to produce a compliant middle class of clerks rather than independent thinkers, a legacy that persists through brutal entrance exams and the veneration of the humanities. While scientific institutions like BARC provide a rare glimmer of genuine aspiration for small-town students, the text ultimately portrays higher education as a rigged lottery that prioritizes prestige and certificates over actual knowledge. Through various anecdotes, the narrative exposes how the impoverished are coerced into an educational race that often results in debt and disillusionment rather than true social mobility. These sources collectively challenge the notion that modern schooling is a meritocratic path to liberation, instead framing it as a mechanism for taming the masses.