TODAY'S EDUCATION SYSTEM

 

Today’s education system may be good to score marks, but  fails to retain the knowledge once students have completed their examinations. This leads to young minds being stifled at an age when they should be asking questions, learning and gaining knowledge, and developing a thirst for more knowledge.

Modern Education

Modern education is very different from the traditional education. The education which is taught in the schools today is the modern education. Modern education teaches about the skills required today that is the skills of science and technology, science of medical science etc. In addition to listening, the modern education includes writing, visualizing, imagining, and thinking skills. This type of education also includes written tests to examine if the students are learning properly or not. This is done in a very formal way. The methodology used for teaching is very interactive. Modern education is just an evolution of the traditional education which was imparted to the students a few years back.

Today’s Scenario

The scenario of education which now is totally different from the scenario which was a few years back, At that time modern education was not considered good and today traditional education is not considered enough. As the needs of the people are changing, the education system also has to change. And this change should be accepted by the people. Earlier the people used teach their children how to fulfill their needs. This was the basic aim behind education. And the aim now is still the same. The only thing which has changed is the need of people. With the passing time, the things which were a luxury at that time have formed the basic needs now. As the needs grew, the education had to grow. If the education did not evolve, then it would be difficult fulfill the needs of today.

If we need to solve this dubious mystery about why Indians, for decades, have not been able to invent or innovate something that could revolutionise the way we live, the answer may well lie in the kind of education system we have right from early schooling days.Our basic education system is rigid, rusty and mundane. Among schoolchildren, it hardly evokes an interest that could ignite a scientific spark to carry forward in their lives.

That’s why we lack innovating or inventing capabilities despite the fact that lakhs of engineers and scientists graduate from their respectable academic institutions year after year, but go without making any substantial contributions to the existing scientific knowledge pool.

That’s again the reason why we have remained a country that squarely depends on foreign countries for our wares and we have remained fairly satisfied with the inventions of ‘zero’ (~400 BC) and pickles!

In 2000, Professor VK Aatre, then the chief of Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and scientific advisor to defence minister, when asked why India was taking such a long time over developing the power plant for the country’s indigenously developed light combat aircraft, said: “We are a country which has not even indigenously developed a car engine. Do you expect us to come up with an aircraft engine for a quality fighter plane in a jiffy?” Now, 11 years later, the engine in question — Kaveri — continues to be in its stages of development, but it is no longer indigenous. And because Kaveri is still under development, we are forced to power the LCA prototypes using the American GE-F404 engines.

For that matter, the indigenous component of the aircraft that Kaveri was to power, the light combat aircraft, itself — planned to be 100% when its idea was conceived — has shrunk to below 70%.