“Real education enhances the dignity of a human being & increase his or her self respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world would be so much a better place to live in” – APJ Abdul Kalam Sir.
Do we get a real education in this modern era? The education system developed in the industrial age yet persists. Technology is changing day by day; we are talking about the 5G revolution, mobile has become thinner and smaller, television has become like a sheet of paper but what about the education system which is a basic need of every young Indian.
We aspire to be a superpower and are talking about a $5 trillion economy but why can’t we give our children the education which will be beneficial in their lives instead of the old mug-up style of education. Practical knowledge needs to find its rightful place in the curriculum. We are amongst the top 3 countries who produce a large number of engineers and doctors every year. However, do we think that all of them or even most of them are as good as they ought to be?
Why can’t we have young entrepreneurs who can work collaboratively and inspire others to be an entrepreneur, why can’t we have storytellers who can bring change in the society just by their stories? Why can’t we have more artists, why can’t we have painters? Why can’t we be in the top 3 countries who produce the most artistic and productive students? In a recent survey, it was mention that out of all computer science graduates, 95% do not know how to code. Is this what India needs?
You went through the same education system as I did; you also sat in the same kind of classroom in which I sat. But do you really think children of this and the coming generation, who at the age of 3 know how to install games on smartphones and who turn into entrepreneurs before they turn into their teens, really need the same education system or the same classrooms as we did? Today’s generation is more independent more free to choose their careers, so why bind them with a 200-year-old education system. Why can’t we break the barriers? Why can’t we move on from the education system which our colonial masters gave us? As Mr. Shashi Tharoor has rightly said in one of his speeches in oxford before Britishers came to India our economy as a percentage of the world economy was 27% but after they left it was a meager 3%. So don’t you think it’s about time we break our old shackles?
As someone has rightly said, “Law, business, engineering are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love are what we stay alive for.”
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