Every creature on this planet is
actively engaged in their own life race, starting from fulfilment of their day
to day requirements till their aim of achieving the so called life time goals and
we human beings are no exception to that. India, the second most populated
country in the world with 125 crores of people in numbers, despite having good
infrastructural facilities and manpower resources is nowhere near the top
rankings as for the education system is concerned.
Why is it so??? This question is
the basis for evolution of this article. This article gives a sneak peek of the
current scenario of our India’s education system. Come... Let’s find out.
The life cycle of a successful
student should start from getting over 90% in schooling, getting into an
engineering college/doing a graduation and settling into a branded corporate
with assured job. Well, this is the generally accepted life graph formulated by
our neighbours, relatives and the entire society surrounding us in order to
label someone as “successful”. And the parents are mentally forced by the
society to develop their childrens in this standardized format failing which,
they will also become prey for this society and the CYCLE CONTINUES LIKE THIS...
Simple.
If all the fingers in our hand itself are not identical, it is utmost idiotic
to expect all the students to fit into a pre-defined circle and get labelled as
“successful in life”. And hence, it is indeed essential for us to look into
this issue from its root cause rather than commenting on a macro angle.
Well... Before going inside, the word "EDUCATION" has been used in this article many times. What does it actually mean? Education is the process
of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values,
beliefs and habits. This is what Wikipedia says... Whether our educational
system puts a tick mark to all the above items??? The answer is a STRICT NO.
Schools, the starting point for
any student’s education career popularly tagged as “FIRST HOME” as, nowadays
students spend more time here as compared to their home. But whether it works
in the way in which it has to work??? Yes…
it’s a big question mark.
The primary goal of
school education system nowadays is not mainly targeted towards imparting good
character, developing inter-personal skills, enabling the students to active
application of their mind but, is confined purely to the completion of SYLLABUS within the time allotted and
conducting the prescribed number of model tests and extra coaching classes. As
a result, students are turned to be mere mark getters and their overall
personality development ranks a big ZERO.
The students are not given the
freedom to think over an issue, except to accept and memorize the lessons taught
and vomit in the exam answer sheets filling up the pages and this becomes even
a contest among the students as to find out who has written more number of
pages. The brain building fundamental
questions such as What, Why and how are erased from the minds of the students
and instead given the options YES or NO. The students are trained only to
clear their exams with good marks and out of box thinking is strictly
prohibited. Over a period of time, students even stop to ask meaningful
questions due to fear factor and the same gets buried in their minds without
any solution. It is not right to find
fault with the schools or the teachers, but the entire system that should be
blamed.
And w.r.t sports activities in
schools... Sorry... Some people may even argue that schools have nothing to do
with sports and often it is treated as an offence/misdeed by most of the
parents. In most of the schools, the time allocated towards sports is very much
negligible and even that classes are also occupied by the other subject
teachers to finish their uncompleted SYLLABUS. And then, we feel envy on other
countries like China, USA and Great Britain while seeing the OLYMPICS medal tally
cursing our Indian contingent to the core. The training and passion towards
sports can only be inculcated in the earliest stages of one’s career i.e.,
school life and once if it is missed, the opportunity is lost. We need to feel
pity only on ourselves rather on feeling jealous on other countries.
And the situation even worsens
when they step into college with their irrebuttable presumption that, they have
learnt everything, got good marks and coming here only to get a graduation. Of
course, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Despite all these things, if
there is one field, where the students get themselves updated with the latest changes happening... then, it is none other the "ENTERTAINMENT" sector. We need to really feel
pity on the current scenario of the students focusing more on reviewing the
Friday releases and meme creations in social networking sites rather than their career growth. Of course, they are going to tell, "DON'T WORRY BRO... There won't be any questions in exam regarding it"... (GOD ONLY SHOULD HELP!!!😠😠😠😠)
The motive is not to find fault with them but, the amount of pressure that has been put on their
shoulders by the entire society is the sole reason for their distraction
towards studies and I should say that evolution of social networking sites and
modern technologies are leading every one of us in a wrong path. And remember, If we are getting too much entertained, then our life'll become ENTERTAINMENT for others.
Even though there may be a school
of thought saying that, the literacy rate in India has developed considerably, the
social crimes happening in our society has also increased even more at a rapid rate.
This makes us to think where this education system leads us to, when our grand
fathers/mothers have lived more happily even without going to these schools and
colleges.
Having said all, now you may
think that this article conveys something which is identical to that of the messages
conveyed in movies like 3 Idiots (Hindi), Saattai (Tamil) etc., But I think if
the same hero-heroine-villain concept itself is portrayed in enormous number of
movies, it is definitely worth to talk about an essential important issue
haunting our society even if it is identical to some of the movies. Atleast
people will get a chance to remember and reinstate in their minds what is
happening around in our country’s education system.
While the changes we desire to
happen may not happen immediately but still, we can be that ignition to bring out
the revolution we desire, at least for the generations to come...
JAI HIND!!!
By
NAGARAJ S and you can reach me @krishkarnagaraj.
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