Highereducation

Author :- Jaymala

WHAT AILS EDUCATION IN INDIA

While writing about education, an eminent educationist once said that, “Education is most worth which comes in response to a felt need.” If this statement has whatever truth, the every round enthusiasm for activity in India and the whole world needs no more justification.

It is now no longer a myth that foundation of a flourishing democracy is found in an educated wide-awake electorate.

But; and is quite a bounteous ‘BUT’; activity to be good and useful, must be liberal and not regimented and must take into consideration digit main saucer in view and that is the all-round utilization of the child’s personality, and the inculcation in him of noble sentiments and clean ideals.

There is, however, so such confused intellection in the earth of activity today that it becomes quite different to discern and delimitate these trends.

Moreover, activity as it is being practiced in the vast eld of our edifice today is so ill-planned and haphazard that we tend to depend more upon educational slogans and fads than upon actual educational philosophies and practices for an understanding of what ‘good education’ really means.

Nevertheless, it should be quite a worthwhile exercise in the present confuse state of our educational utilization to seek understandably the path that we should follow. An acquaintance with the latest trends in activity could also be worthwhile if exclusive to actualise how such leeway our schools hit to make up in the activity presented to our children is to be really worth-while.

In Indian education, curriculum and book books are inadequate. The main criticism against the secondary schools is that allowance is not made for variation in aptitudes, interests and abilities. All the students are taught the same courses irrespective of their noetic caliber and interests.

All the students hit to transfer through the same straightforward crown whether it fits them or not. This has resulted in maladjustments, mass failures and eventual inaction in some cases. Eventually some students change to transfer in the communicating because they hit no choice.

They are to take the burden of every the subjects. If he is proficient in a person and knows null in the other, he is aerated as an unsuccessful candidate. He is also aerated seriously by his teachers. By this if, India wants to establish that it is giving coequal status to every educational subject.

In addition, instruction imparted in our schools is book-centered and leaves a lowercase scope for creative intellection and self expression. It is no wonder that a vast eld of students cannot write a few lines on some presented topic. The reason for this noetic vaccum are not far to seek.

They exclusive undergo about the facts that are important to exams, and they hit to learn it by heart i.e. memorises, but they undergo really null about the concept. They exclusive memorise it due to its importance in the examination. In constituent the teachers taught that materials in the class which are important in the examination.

The students with whatever exceptions hit been encouraged to cram answers to the spotted questions likely to figure in the communicating papers and transfer the examination.

Unfortunately, the wagon of secondary activity in this country has been hitched to a lamppost of passing the examination. It does not aim a lodestar of idealism, which should form the basis of every worthwhile education. The curriculum that is being presented to us is now very outdated.

It is introduced in 1986 under the National Policy of Education. At that time, it was good but time has denaturized now. It needs some changes. In countries like China, students are taken in that path where they are interested to go or join. They are not forced to transfer through the same delve of gate.

Suppose if someone is interested in sports then right from the early ages they are trained and taught in that earth only. Thus, later on they crapper become a well-known personality in that field. This system crapper be proved by watching the sort of medals China gets in the Olympics.

Likewise, in India also this system should be interested so that we crapper be developed as termed in economics. Another malady be setting our secondary activity is tremendous wastage and inaction resulting from mass failures at the edifice leaving examinations conducted by different edifice boards in this country.

Sometimes the transfer percentage is below 50%; even in the edifice examination, the picture is no way better. This is not a flourishing symptom and calls for a thorough probe and early remedy. No developing country crapper afford frittering absent of anxiousness resources in this way.

It not exclusive results in wastage of time, energy, and money, but also brings lots of frustration to the failed and his family. In this way the failure student losses his spirit and sometimes a day comes when the failed leaves school. Like that, it is the wastage of human resources also.

In schools and colleges, there is the system of ‘Ragging’. The edifice authorities should take proper state against the miscreants. It results seriously to some students. Sometimes they hit to leave the edifice also.

Therefore, this system also ails our educational system. Moreover, edifice is a place; a temple of ‘LEARNING’, but the alphabet ‘L’ now disappeared in real sense from this word, decent the locate of ‘EARNING’. Why it is so?

Why the teachers exclusive come to earn and not to teach? Why they exclusive like the students who are smart, handsome, and good in studies? Lastly, edifice should be a locate where the doctrine should not be book centered.

There should be practical and orals also. The communicating system should be changed. It is to be more interesting and should be a locate of enjoyment, learning and should be a locate for doing and knowing the facts practically.

I agree that edifice is necessary. Nevertheless, why does it hit to be so boring? Why are we aerated like machines to be switched on and off and fed with facts? Why are we aerated like parrots and simple calculating machines? Why can’t edifice be more interesting and more challenging?