If we think in details then a universal panacea of all our problem emerges as a good inclusive education system. Be it the problem of traffic or health or corruption or anything else, education is considered as a magic wand to all our wounds. But question we ought to ask ourselves is whether current education system will prove a panacea or will it worsen the education system? Not very difficult to imagine, it may stop things from getting worse but it'll not guarantee to make them better. Case in point is all the big scams of India which has a serious involvement of so-called educated class. Similarly, violators of overspeeding and drunken-driving are not the illiterate rowdies. Oftentimes they are young educated modern class people. Therefore, our education needs some out of box suggestions to solve these problems.
A. We need to switch from k-12 to the k-13 system of education. The additional one year should be to learn the vocational skills like masonry, Welding, tool cutting, electronics, electricals, computers, manufacturing, traditional arts and artifacts, sculpting, hospitality, driving, and basic skills education etc. This has multiple benefits.
1. It'll allow people to develop real marketable skill set with which they can even open their own businesses.
2. It'll help in institutional mechanism to save our traditional skill sets.
3. We can hire traditional artisans as teachers and provide the platform to reach out to a wider audience.
4. It'll revive the Guru-Shishya tradition of India.
5. It'll reduce the pace at which people are entering the workforce and thus give more time to the government for generating more jobs.
6. It'll integrate the Skill India in our formal education system and thus will take away huge corruption introduced by a cartel of private skill training institutes.
B. We need to focus on ethics aspect of education by integrating subjects of psychology, corruption, cleanliness and social values in the age group of 12-16 years. The subject of psychology in class 8th will help in developing a sense of self-esteem and internal locus of control. It'll help in turning young boys into a man at an early age so that they will develop a sense of right and wrong. It will make them more immune to vulnerabilities of drug addiction, stressful life and prevent them from falling into the rat race.
C. We need to revive the library culture in our society. For this multiple initiatives need to be taken.
1. We need to amend the RTE act and ensure that libraries are opened in every school.
2. We need to conduct year-round competitions of readership/debate/extempore starting from primary level.
3. Reading cannot be separated from writing/speaking and listening hence a comprehensive Padho India scheme should be launched with a focus on essay writing, and district level student newspaper etc.
4. All the books and texts should be converted to local text and languages. More and more audio and video texts in a local language should be introduced.
D. A good teacher lays the basic foundation of the education system. For this, we need to recruit people who can reflect on the text and can really ignite the curiosity and zeal for learning among students. For this, prime minister's scheme of asking scientists to teach in schools is a very effective scheme. To this pool of engineers, doctors, administrators, and scientists we can add people who appear for UPSC interview but who fail to qualify for the final list of UPSC exam. Every school should compulsorily arrange for at least one or two hours of daily teaching by such people.
E. Another point is related to plagiarism. The model of UP government should be followed in entire India. All the schools and classrooms should be equipped with the CCTV and exam-time recording should be provided under RTI to RTI functionaries. Further plagiarism is one big menace in higher education as well. It has led to a deterioration in the quality of our engineers and arts graduate. Therefore, a medical like all India passing exam should be conducted for engineering students as well.
There are many other things which could be done in this regard but rest all are very general and oft-talked points. The recommendations of T.S.R. Subramaniam committee would have covered other points in detail.
A. We need to switch from k-12 to the k-13 system of education. The additional one year should be to learn the vocational skills like masonry, Welding, tool cutting, electronics, electricals, computers, manufacturing, traditional arts and artifacts, sculpting, hospitality, driving, and basic skills education etc. This has multiple benefits.
1. It'll allow people to develop real marketable skill set with which they can even open their own businesses.
2. It'll help in institutional mechanism to save our traditional skill sets.
3. We can hire traditional artisans as teachers and provide the platform to reach out to a wider audience.
4. It'll revive the Guru-Shishya tradition of India.
5. It'll reduce the pace at which people are entering the workforce and thus give more time to the government for generating more jobs.
6. It'll integrate the Skill India in our formal education system and thus will take away huge corruption introduced by a cartel of private skill training institutes.
B. We need to focus on ethics aspect of education by integrating subjects of psychology, corruption, cleanliness and social values in the age group of 12-16 years. The subject of psychology in class 8th will help in developing a sense of self-esteem and internal locus of control. It'll help in turning young boys into a man at an early age so that they will develop a sense of right and wrong. It will make them more immune to vulnerabilities of drug addiction, stressful life and prevent them from falling into the rat race.
C. We need to revive the library culture in our society. For this multiple initiatives need to be taken.
1. We need to amend the RTE act and ensure that libraries are opened in every school.
2. We need to conduct year-round competitions of readership/debate/extempore starting from primary level.
3. Reading cannot be separated from writing/speaking and listening hence a comprehensive Padho India scheme should be launched with a focus on essay writing, and district level student newspaper etc.
4. All the books and texts should be converted to local text and languages. More and more audio and video texts in a local language should be introduced.
D. A good teacher lays the basic foundation of the education system. For this, we need to recruit people who can reflect on the text and can really ignite the curiosity and zeal for learning among students. For this, prime minister's scheme of asking scientists to teach in schools is a very effective scheme. To this pool of engineers, doctors, administrators, and scientists we can add people who appear for UPSC interview but who fail to qualify for the final list of UPSC exam. Every school should compulsorily arrange for at least one or two hours of daily teaching by such people.
E. Another point is related to plagiarism. The model of UP government should be followed in entire India. All the schools and classrooms should be equipped with the CCTV and exam-time recording should be provided under RTI to RTI functionaries. Further plagiarism is one big menace in higher education as well. It has led to a deterioration in the quality of our engineers and arts graduate. Therefore, a medical like all India passing exam should be conducted for engineering students as well.
There are many other things which could be done in this regard but rest all are very general and oft-talked points. The recommendations of T.S.R. Subramaniam committee would have covered other points in detail.
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