Indian Education System: A time for change

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Rightly said, "Education loves like mother, cares like father, remove fatigue like wife, dignifies, graces and spread peace in all four directions." But can we compare the above lines with the current scenario of Indian Education System? of course not. Visit any school in the Country, you will find loads of books and bulky answers in the notebooks, waiting to be crammed. The education system in India is divided into primary, higher secondary, senior secondary and vocational education sections. The schools are managed by NCERT. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is the apex body for curriculum related education in India.

We all go to school with a hope of becoming a super sonic jet that reaches its destined successful path with a tremendous speed but ends up becoming a hot air balloon roaming in the space with no gravity or no unique ambition just because our school focuses more on academics which leads in diminishing the creative intelligence. Today also there are many teachers who are teaching the students of present with the techniques of past. Don't you think they are robbing the bright future of the children? 

The dark reality of our education system is everyone wants to conquer using the three steps:

STEP 1: Go to school, score 95 and above so that you can get admission in a reputed university.

STEP 2: Go to college, enhance your skills ,get your degree.

STEP 3: Find a good job with high salary package and certainly you become educated and successful.

and from here you transform into an asset with no out of the box thinking.

In India, a student is measured with his or her academic grades. Assessment, practicals and assignments are the part of this. Yes, we want our students to obtain good grades as it makes the environment of healthy competition but this competition leads students to only mug up the concepts without understanding them. Every child is special in his own way, they all are god gifted and unique but today we just focus on the academics aspects. This should be stopped because when these students will go out in the real world they will face a lot of problems.

With the time the education system also needs to build up. This system creates a sense of inequality in students,where the students who have their academic background strong are automatically the ideal once, whereas the students who have a weak academic background are neglected. We need to have a different system in which one can look at the skills and invisible potential of students.

Therefore, in a nutshell education is not learning word to word. It is about understanding and thinking out of the box. The day when India will change its education system soon it will become a developed nation.