Education

PROBLEMS AND REFORMS REQUIRED IN EDUCATION SYSTEM OF INDIA

Nelson Mandela once rightly said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Education definitely works as weapon or tool only when it's imparted adequately, equally and correctly to all. The Indian Education system unfortunately is not Indian but has been imposed by the British.

India has since long facing many problems in educating its young generation. Lack of literacy has chained and webbed in several issues and concerns whose ultimate solution is education. Crack in Indian education system has led to many interrelated problems like health hazards, social disharmony and discrimination, low economic mobility, wrong political choices etc.

To improve educational standard in India the government first of all should improve primary education measures.The country should invest more in primary level education as countries like China which has a better educational standard at the primary level which makes citizens at least capable of reading manuals , follow direction etc.According to the February 2015 data of the state of Maharashtra where the Annual Evaluation Test 400,000 teachers wasconducted under which as low as just 1% and 5% teachers of primary and upper primary schools as follows qualified which shows an alarming rate of non eligible teachers at primary level. We also have an alerting level of teacher student ration in these government schools further adding up to the escalating problems. Even though there is high enrolment of students in the schools we still see a very less attendance in schools and the major cause behind it student drop outs.

Even though Indian spends around so many billions over its educationpeople still go on to choose private schools mostly over government schools not only in cities but also on the rural areas too and find private schools as a better institutions to developed and build in individual capabilities.

The Indian Educational is totally cracked up as there is a huge disparity in streams and the societydoesn’t allow students to pursue multiple streams like their hobbies of singing,paintig or dancing and instead motivates studentsto at least be graduated in particular subject to get into easy terms with jobs. The students most of the time remain stressed in and outbecause of too many exams and thus they lose in spirit of pursuing something which they like. Therefore somewhere or the other its adding up as an barrier for these young adults to pursuetheir dreams as a sportsman or an artist. It is during this period thatthey are so much tensed with the pressure of exams haunting them day and night that they lose interest in their art , sports and various extracurricular activities wherethey are exceptionally amazing and can do wonders.

The education system is mostly focused on preparing students for various different examsfocusing mostly onto mugging up theoretical parts from their textbooks with zero experimentation and use of logical thinking skills and research. Children are brought up in schools where they only circle around learning things instead of actually understanding it. Hence , schools prepare these students as ” jack of all trades but focus on none “ Education is only seen as a means through which one can get good jobs and sit back with a high earned salary and not as a means of exploration , experimentation, means of development of the personality andinnovation . Though it sets up student getting into jobs but these students somewhere or the other lack innovative skills and ambition which is counted amongst the most important skills in an entrepreneur .

Therefore the educational foundation should have multiple changes within it and the government should come up with a greater allocation of budgets to the primary schools as they build in the foundation and the basic necessary education. The Indian constitution moved in Right to Education from DPSP To the fundamental rights sectionin 2009 giving 25% reservation to lower economic section students in private schools which their parents cannot afford should be implemented and the government should also seek in that the various provisions of this fundamental rights are extended to its citizen .

One very amazing changes suggested by many are flipped classrooms with modernisation in educational system of India could be highly beneficial likeeducating students through audio visual methods, gamification, giving them lecture in AV formwhich they can see and analyse at home, ask their doubts at school and above that their home works should be done in schools. Thus learning in bytes can be very useful means of educating them.

Students should not be motivated in learning thetheory parts without understanding and experimenting them as it can add on as barrier to their education system because it completely destroys their innovative skills. Youngsters should always be allowed to pursue in their dreams and aspiration and should never bestopped from or restrained from doing or aspiring a particular streamaccording to their capabilities. Therefore the Indian Education system requires instant reforms andchanges like these and thus it can be saved from being cracked up any further.