What is wrong with the Indian education system?
Thinking.Science for intelligent ones.Commerce for “good in maths” students.Arts for weak students.Question papers.Bihar boards’ open cheating.Repeating the same questions from past papers. Leading to proliferation of “guidebooks” business.Clash of views.If your views don’t match with the teachers’, you won’t get desired marks.Long hauls.11000 UPSC aspirants on an average don’t make it in the interview. 2000 of them don’t find their place in the merit list. They have to go through the process again. They could have had easily filled any group B job.Mugging over understanding.“Sun rises in the east and sets in the west.”People writing XII boards mostly remember the solution of the question asked in their exam.Stickiness in thought process.Reforms are envisaged in 10 years. It takes 10 years to implement them.K. Kasturirangan to head panel on National Education Policy. He will suggest some fresh reforms. But alas, all those reforms will bite the dust.TSR Subramanian’s recommendations on Higher education are yet to be implemented.Last day hauls.“Ma’am told us these important topics. Learn these by heart. You will get good marks.”Sad part is that these persons really do top the exams.It leads to “Yes men” around teachers and professors.Vicious cycles.Intelligent—- Science—-Send to Kota—-Depressed—-Suicide.Commerce — Prepare for CA — Feels like not interested — ends up wasting precious time.Arts --Prepare for UPSC—not interested—- ends up wasting many years.Extraordinary delays.CBSE did some serious mistakes in this year’s results. Now, many students' marks are increasing. But college cut off won’t count those increased marks. These students miss the cutoffs of their favourite colleges.UPSC exams takes an year to complete the process. Many young years are drained into it.Things are beaten into the head.My friend’s sibling had started writing sentences. I asked him to write something. I asked him to write something in 5 different ways.He wrote the word “something” in five different fonts!When after few months, the teacher asked him to write something, he did the same. He was scolded by the teacher. He came to home crying.AImage: Don't Let Perfect Get In the Way of Progress.
Why indian education system sucks?
I mean its mainly about memorizing tons of crappy and useless data(mugging and vomiting system) which doesnt by any means expand our intellectual abilities instead creates a complete unnecessary burden on our brain and is totally unproductive and waste of time. Education should be about understanding and applying knowledge and it should promote rational and inquisitive and logical learning which actually enhances our mind. Just like einstein said" Never memorize anything which you can find in a book" His history teacher always insisted him to memorize dates but he alaways refused by replying:-"professor i dont see any point in memorizing stuff you can find in a book" He meant one should open his mind to more original ideas..and look he gave breathtaking theories to us. So why one should memorize every piece of information in useless subjects like history,geography,biology,poems,essays,s... and etc....its totally lame.
If you were to reform the Indian education system, what would you do and why?
If you compare the Indian education system and foreign education system, India focuses more on theory . Practicals are taken lightly. I am a student who can't mug up or remember theory. When i perform practical experiments along with studying theory , i get a very profound grasp of the topic. When i work in the college lab with my fellow classmates, I find that they are more concerned in getting the expected values and work in a way to adhere to a specific procedure. They lack the interest to reason and experimenting new techniques. They are more worried about getting marks , not learning something new. This is why we are technologically backward. We have good theoretical innovation but we are zero when we come to practical innovation.First of all i would like to bring about the following changes to our educational system-1) Make everyone realize that scoring marks are not the ultimate goal. Learning new things and implementing what ever they have learnt in a positive way should be the main goal. In India - Good marks > College name will increase > Demand increases > Fees and hence profit increases. I don't want collage to train and educate students for money.2) Open more schools and develop them so as to accommodate students all over India. With this we can stop the reservation system but continue to provide scholarships for poor students.3) Kicking a practical sense of approach and arousing curiosity in students.4) Collage admission should be based on skills and not based on marks. To get a seat in top university in USA , we have to clear GRE,TOEFL etc which are skill testing exams. They don't test the students knowledge as it does not give appropriate results in distinguishing between an Einstein and mug head.
If you were given a chance to reform our Indian education system, what would be the first change you would like to make?
Here are they,I will change the syllabus based education system. Students should be given time to think outside of the syllabus. They should be practically involved in their field of interest.Seminars,exhibitions,Group discussions will be given priority. Students should learn to express themselves.“Yoga” will be a subject,which students can study. Interested students can make career also.There will be examination system of daily tests. No marks will be given,no grades will be given. Instead of these a “paper of analysis” will be given to each students. It will include some advice,some motivating points and the weak points of the concerned student. These will increase their interest and also teacher's work.In every month,one working day of the school will be to guide students in life lessons. They will be given education regarding daily life incidents.In every week there will be 5 hours of school time is to train students in self defence acts.In every month,there will be provision to arrange sports twice.There will be different school shifts. 6.00AM-12.00PM,2.00PM-8.00PM. It depends on the student which shift he/she chooses. It will decrease some vacancy posts. Teachers will get respect.Books will be made by specialised group of teachers(it is happening now too,I want this not to be changed)Computer basic education is the necessity. It will be given priority.No reservation,seats in institutes will be given by special entrance exams conducted by concerned authority. Exam will test the knowledge inside not the knowledge installed.Humanity subjects like- Philosophy,Economics,Psychology will be taught parallel to interested subjects.“Observe and report” will be a special programme. It is like study tour. But students have to give a report after their observations. It will increase the knowledge for sure.I will allow mobile/tablet/laptop in schools,provided they will be special type of mobiles made only for educational purpose.Students will get the chance to spend time with great personalities,as that of TED talks.Thanks.I don't think the above is possible so easily. We have penetrated so much in the current education system that it will take time to fall into another education system.[math]Tripathy[/math].