A nationwide disaster called The Indian Education System

Randomed by Rituraj / at 1:15 AM / /

Indian education is mainly concerned with marks. A student's abilities,talents etc. are determined based on his marks not only by the teachers but also by parents, employers and the general public. This fact itself is catastrophical enough in damping a young child's capabilities but add to it the yet more shocking fact is the kind of effort this child needs to put in to get marks. We'll get back to that later.

First let us see how horribly wrong the Indians have got the meaning of EDUCATION. Education is actually the process of empowering a learning individual with the right knowledge, inspire one to influence the world around him in a positive way while doing something which one loves and is passionate about. Education is supposed to render one with a perspective that is otherwise difficult to gain through self learning. Education has nothing to do with earning money. If you see a student pursuing say Computer Science in college & If you ask him why computer science I bet 99% of the replies will have something to do with Computer Skills being more in demand in the job market currently and nothing to do with actually liking computers and being fascinated by them. Even if you do find a person actually pursuing Comp Sc due to the fact that it interests him the college in which he studies will take care of stifling his interests. How, you ask? The answer is by putting him through numerous outdated subjects, making him learn irrelevant concepts and much much more.
e.g. in my college we have a subject called Linux System programming which teaches one about linux- an operating system similar to windows. We are made to MEMORIZE hundreds of lines of CODE for the tests instead of asking us to apply them. So instead of the question being something like " If you face so so problem how would you go around it?" we are asked " Write down the code for so so problem." Why we use the said code for solving the given problem we never know. Neither do we understand the meaning of the code nor is it taught to us. And this shit happens in the so called best private university of India.

I do not know about other countries but in India no one is aware of the fact that when you do something you like doing you are passionate about it. And if you do something with passion and love you are bound to create something which everyone else will appreciate and want. But in India if you like painting then you have no future because not only are there no places where you can LEARN art but your parents in India wont allow you to do so. Even if allowed it will end up dissatisfying them. It's not their fault really. Because then they cannot showoff to other people since the Indian society thinks you have achieved something only if you get into the IITs(the best engineering college) irrespective of what you might actually want to learn. If I tell my friends that my kid is doing arts from some college their reaction would be as to why I'd allow something like that when I know painting earns one no money.
So you are not supposed to do something because you want to earn money. Instead you should do something you like and make money in the process. As far as you are passionate about what you do money will come to you somehow.

A school student in India will read/write stuff almost 95% of the time he does anything related to school instead of it being a combination of reading, writing, interaction, inquisition, sports, self learning and so much more. I'd be asked to mug history dates but will not be told why the event on that date occurred. India, despite having the second largest population, is able to win no gold medals in the Olympics. The only game Indians are good at is Cricket. Sports is not at all considered as something you could achieve heights in.

Furthermore, what one learns is irrelevant anyways. Let me explain what I have said till now by citing an example from real life. I know this person. He did an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering. I remember him telling me in school that he loved reading non fiction books like biographies, philosophy etc. In fact he was excellent at talking bout such stuff not only on stage but also during a discussion. I always ended up knowing something new after I had a discussion with him. He managed to change my view many times about some issue. And chemical engineering is so the degree to do all this. Anyways, during his college, he was good at studies. So he could have become a good chemical engineer. But he did MBA as postgraduation. And guess what job he is at today. He works at an Insurance Company. I dont know about his exact designation but whatever it be it cannot be even remotely related to neither what talents he had nor what he learnt.

So the Indian education in short can be described as: MMM ie Mug some crap to get good Marks or you'll make no Money.