Transforming the Indian Education system

Every Education System has its merits and demerits including Indian education system and no one can disagree with that. We have a great number of scientists and doctors passing out of our system. Nevertheless, is it good enough for our future generations? Here are a few explanations why Indian Education System requires reforms and how we can go about them?

Our country is set to become the youngest nation by 2020 with 64 percent of its population in the working age category. We all come across such stereotypical statements every day. While there is nothing incorrect with the statistics, such figures certainly solicit the question – is the statistical growth of population essential and the condition for a nation to grow, to develop, or even to develop as a super power? The answer is simple and it is ‘No’. Our country may have a lot of potential nonetheless it in vain, if this potential is not channelized suitably.

Making Education available to all

The only way to utilize this potential in asystematic method is by educating the people. A proper development of Indian education system together with the great number of young individuals that India boasts ofcan take us far ahead than other nations in the race for development. Education as we understand it in the presentscenario this has been reduced to rhetoric when in fact most of our educational establishments are like assembly lines that output workers that are reduced to mere duplicators and their creative talents are hindered in the process.

Create a difference between Mere ‘Training’ and ‘Education’

If statistics are to be believed, 1.5 million engineering students graduate every year and go through the risk of not obtaining a job. India has nearly the highest number of medical pass outs each year, and still the mortality rate is high owing to the lack of proper health care, and so on. The challenge isn’t the lack of jobs but the fact that we have limited the realms of education and reduced its definition to nothing but a means to obtain a lucrative position, and thus end up being, what can be termed to as well trained, nevertheless well educated.

If the term ‘development of India’ has to grow beyond rhetoric, then major reformation is required: reforms at the micro in addition at the macro level. These reforms have to begin with an importance on the development of the individual – and they would in due course manifest themselves at the social level.

Innovation Vital in Teaching Methodology

Apparently, it strikes one’s mind, what sort of reformative mentality do we need to internalize ourselves? We need to query ourselves. While the Western world keeps on experimenting, and seeking novel ways of growth, we in the East almost never consent ourselves to take risks or experiment, and that is where we lag behind. We have to change our thinking about education, and lastly, implement this change in a realistic manner.

Education is not solely a process to get you a job; that is not the only role of education. Education is about thoughtful, recognizing your nature, your abilities and putting yourself up for what you are best at for the benefit of the wider society. It is not just about learning different things. It’s about exploring your concealed talents, and utilizing them for a better life.

Education should help you in Self-Realization!

Our challenge is not that we don’t study well, or we don’t get good grades, the other being is that we don’t know how to channelize our resources, and that is where the reform that experts have been talking about throughout this piece comes into the picture. We should learn that each citizen of this nation has a right to education, and we should not deny education to anybody.

From Individual Excellence to Societal Growth

This is the only approach this vast country with a brilliant diversity can march forward on the road to development and become a model unto the world in how to ensure the food, security, and growth of each individual by educating each of them in a correct method. That is what Indian education system should thrive for.

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