Change in Education System
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CHANGE IN EDUCATION SYSTEM
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Is said by Margaret Mead. This is probably one of the best lines said by our elders to portray our present day education. What is meant by education? It is a form of learning to enchance our knowledge and skills and a habit of passing on what we learned to our next generation.
An article on “Indian Education – Past, Present and Suggestions for Future” by Thomas Babington Macaulay stated there were 7.5 lakh Gurukuls before the british invasation in india and their strength varied from 200 to 20,000, Whereas in Britain there were hardly 250 schools. This clearly shows us that India was once highly literated and well versed in our education system then when india falled in the hands of Britain and we started praising and embracing whatever was western.
Our teaching method slowly got destroyed and the trend of theoretical learning only through books increased and the practical application of what we learned got declined. At the same point the rapid increase in our population let to the emergence of various institutions with low quality education. As a result of various institutions evolving rapidly like a fire, education became a business sector and then it was lead by public and private organisation with a tough competition.
The education system in India is provided by both government and private organisations and it comes under 3 levels.
Central
State
Local
Indian government is trying to provide education for every kids atleast in a primary level. Though the government strives hard to increase our educational sectors to a best level, we lack in providing quality education.
The teaching in central government based schoolsare highly qualified and more practical while the education system in government school is very poor and the quality of teaching is too less. Though the students are intelligent they are not provided with much teachers to increase their knowledge ability and this reason is a major flaw in the lacking of education in government schools.
Most of the institutions and schools in India follow the technique known as “Exam point of view” technique which mainly concentrate only on the textbook contents and not on the practical meaning of the subject.
They treat children like a computer and their brain as a “HardDrive” where they keep on feeding all the information continuously to them, and apparently these children, who once were smart as computers, later turns out into a “dead hard drive”,where they lose their minds completly out of over loading by memorizing all the text