Education and India

Posted by Paul on 14. June 2013

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India being a Sovereign Secular Republic country has a vast economy today where among the 121 corer Indians, a huge ratio of Homo sapiens belong to rural background. Though the existing society is trying to nurture itself in every possible way but the basic requirement today still remains unchanged. With the facts like food, shelter and clothing; education has also become an area of primary concern.

Education is a path towards civilization, in other words it can be said that more we are educated, more civilized we become. “Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave” a famous line beautifully quoted by John Ruskin. It not only generate us knowledge but we know how to act in public or private displayed forum.

Education nowadays has become an exceptional channel of modernization- it can be realized from the fact that the change in upbringing of the habitat to socializing. The education system in India is merely a theoretical version which helps our students to jam or cram over the topic, losing a chance to visualize the total concept about the matter it dealt with. The system earns the title of “rote” entity which only helps to bring marks during the exams, but the real purpose is not served, so their remains a question are we truly educated?

Since education scheme in our country is economical, it limits the number of seat which throws the real talent into an area of depression as the seats are generally sold to students who can randomly pay big amount. This system creates a great vacuum not only between the parents and children but also between the teacher and students, this is because there prevails a strict theoretical teaching where a student feels scared to ask an essential questions even if they fail to understand a basic language.

Sometimes it so happens that the child doesn’t have his own opinion towards his career choice. They are forced to pursue career based on the whims and fancies of their parents, which gradually become their generation tradition- i.e. doctor, engineer, teacher etc.

The term inspiration and motivation doesn’t exist in their dictionary, due to this a student mind is generally diverted and in spite of having a great ability he becomes invisible in the crowd.  A small word brings huge developmental change within a student’s mind where he or she became aware of the fact that they too can have a big dreams and goals in their life. As maximum of our inhabitants belong from a rural area so they are hardly accustomed with this word and its application in the real life.

Education today has become business, with the opening of many private institutes offering variety of degree has given a high range of scope with a bit of doubt. Though it is said Indian society has a poor background still it has a mark of producing brilliant talents across the globe.