Time to amend the Indian education system

Oly Banerjee, INN/Gwalior, @Infodeaofficial

Since the time a child is born, each succeeding second of his life is fixed, and everybody has to follow the same time-line, that is getting up early in the morning, studying or taking an overview of the topics to be taught in school, reaching the school, passing most of the dayā€™s time there, finally returning home and then going to coaching class.

The whole time of a childā€™s life passes competing in the race called ā€˜lifeā€™. A child gets so engaged in this daily schedule, that he merely gets any time to discover his inner strengths or the thing, which he is actually meant for.

This strict schedule, like that of any military training academy, is because of the zeal of getting good marks in school. Parents these days want their kids to become ā€œthe ideal Sharma ji ka betaā€, rather than giving thought to the idea, of trying to bring out their childā€™s unique quality.

Paying attention towards the holistic development of a child, one of the best educated country with highly qualified workforce, Singapore, abolished the decade old school ranking system, thus removing any kind of comparison.

According to the Ministry of Education of Singapore, this step has been taken to make the students focus on his or her learning progress and discourage them from overly concerning about comparisons, it stated, ā€œLearning is not a competition.ā€In order to eliminate all sorts of comparison, the mark-sheet will not carry class and level mean, minimum and maximum marks, underlining or highlighting failing marks.

The most devastating time of any studentā€™s life, is the moment, when results are declared, teachers along with the studentā€™s mark-sheets are sitting on a table-chair, to call students along with their parents and to complain about the mischievous things he did during the session, and lauding the exemplary topper of the class. Everybody in India is expected to be the sheep of the same herd.

Singapore has the best education in science and maths in the world, followed by Finland, Switzerland, Lebanon, according to the World Economic Forum, India stands at 37th position, whereas the Indian students no doubtly works the hardest spending long hours in school then in coaching center, still the Indian engineers have to come across with worldwide taunts, as once C.P Gurnani, CEO and MD of Tech Mahindra said, ā€œ94% engineering graduates are not fit for hiring.ā€

These giant companies have to build learning centers of their own for generating skilled employees; instead of enforcing competition at every step, this is the need of the hour and a solution to this malignant challenge, that India adopts something good from its developed neighbours.

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