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Problems with Indian education system.

Problems with Indian education system.




Why are Indian parents so obsessed with their child's academic marks? Why are kids not made to self analyze? Why did schools and colleges focus on a typical system of education? The answers are not so clear. Let us start from the very old days where 'education' was a necessity and how education was subjected to different race.  

Since the British came and left India, the idea of education was implemented in a very strict and it was quite formal. Education was and is considered something very disciplined and has to be acquired neat and clean. British missionaries had been a new threshold for and individual or a group of people to compete and stay ahead in a society. The more educated you are means you belong to the prime category of the Indian caste system. There will be people from lower caste who struggle and get educated, still be looked down at.

The same system is still followed today, particularly in India. Among the lower and middle class people, getting educated is a rat race, because your social value is rendered based on your educational qualification. No matter in what field you are efficient, there is this system of ' formal education' which still dominates the other type of education system.

For the people belonging to higher caste in the society, there is quite a pressure to get educated and to achieve a very typical professional degree. If you score less than eighty percentage in the exams means you are good for nothing. No one really want to appreciate your talents as far as they are not a conventional profession. If you get an engineering degree, you will be greeted with garlands. If you get an art degree, people don't really care.

Creativity

Almost everyone mistakes 'Creativity' to something which is a side business, or sometimes a hobby. Creativity is never something always related to art and craft. Creativity is that action where you are doing something related to the fiend in which you are practicing in a different way. It could be anything. It could be music, art, socializing, and even engineering. Creativity is very underrated because it is out of syllabus.

Monotonous education system

Indian schools and colleges has only one way of education students. Follow the syllabus, teach the students the subjects, and make them write the test. Some students get good marks, some students score average, and some score less or null. The fault is not with the students, but with the system of education. This education system is meant for the students who scored pretty good marks. The other students really has to be given some other form of education. That is when creativity is put into practice.

Individualism

Each students have their own individual thought process. This individualism is killed in a span of twelve years. Instead of making the students analyze themselves and sharpen their thinking and imagination skills, a very monotonous syllabus is being covered which doesn't really allow student to have a diverse thought process. 

Less functional literacy

Students are only made to learn a topic in a pre programmed method, and this method is repeated by the teacher every year. Though they can write an answer to a question to the point on a paper, their functional aspects are neglected. The market value is not acknowledged. The students does not really know how to apply them in the real life.

Conclusion

There is an urgent reform required in the Indian system of education. Such a reform that should ensure that each of the students get the knowledge to think, to analyze themselves in an isolated situation, to take strong decisions and finally to understand the diverse subjects and field of study in their life. Also education should never be a factor to describe a person and hopefully skills should be dominated over the results on a paper.
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