Education System in India.!!!!!

"Studying should be from heart and not by heart". 

           Education in India is provided by the public sector as well as the private sector, with control and funding coming from three levels: central, state, and local. Under various articles of the Indian Constitution, free and compulsory education is provided as a fundamental right to children between the ages of 6 and 14.

  India has made progress in terms of increasing the primary education attendance rate and expanding literacy to approximately three-quarters of the population in the 7-10 age group, by 2011.India's improved education system is often cited as one of the main contributors to its economic development. Much of the progress, especially in higher education and scientific research, has been credited to various public institutions.

  At the primary and secondary level, India has a large private school system complementing the government run schools, with 29% of students receiving private education in the 6 to 14 age group.Certain post-secondary technical schools are also private. The private education market in India had a revenue of US$450 million in 2008, but is projected to be a US$40 billion market.

  As per the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2012, 96.5% of all rural children between the ages of 6-14 were enrolled in school. This is the fourth annual survey to report enrollment above 96%. Another report from 2013 stated that there were 229 million students enrolled in different accredited urban and rural schools of India, from Class I to XII, representing an increase of 2.3 million students over 2002 total enrollment, and a 19% increase in girl's enrollment. While quantitatively India is inching closer to universal education, the quality of its education has been questioned particularly in its government run school system. Some of the reasons for the poor quality include absence of around 25 percent of teachers everyday.States of India have introduced tests and education assessment system to identify and improve such schools.

   It is important to clarify that while there are private schools in India, they are highly regulated in terms of what they can teach, in what form they can operate (must be a non-profit to run any educational institution) and all other aspects of operation. Hence, the differentiation of government schools and private schools can be misguiding. 

NEED A CHANGE:

What do we need to change about the EDUCATION SYSTEM?? 

     Even Rabindranath Tagore wrote lengthy articles about how Indian education system needs to change. Education has been a problem in our country and lack of it has been blamed for all sorts of evil for hundreds of years. Comparing to colonial times few thing have changed. We have established IITs, IIMs, law schools and other institutions of excellence; students now routinely score 90% marks so that even students with 90+ percentage find it difficult to get into the colleges of their choice; but we do more of the same old stuff.

    Rote learning still plagues our system, students study only to score marks in exams, and sometimes to crack exams like IIT JEE, AIIMS . Few years before  the youngsters prepared for civil services and bank officers exams, but they now prepare to become engineers. If there are a few centres of educational excellence, for each of those there are thousands of mediocre and terrible schools, colleges and now even universities that do not meet even minimum standards. If things have changed a little bit somewhere, elsewhere things have sunk into further corruption and lack of ambition. 

       We also live in a country where the people see education as the means of climbing the social and economic ladder. If the education system is failing  then it is certainly not due to lack of demand for good education, or because a market for education does not exist Education system in India. 


FLAWS IN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM:

    Our education system is  towards teaching and testing knowledge at every level as opposed to teaching skills. 

“Give a man a fish and you feed him one day, teach him how to catch fishes and you feed him for a lifetime.” 

    I believe that if you teach a man a skill, you enable him for a lifetime. Knowledge is is forgotten after the semester exam is over. Still, year after year Indian students focus on cramming information. The best crammers are rewarded by the system. This is one of the fundamental flaws of our education system. Everyone are writing just to fill their papers...Everyone want a change in our education system.. Bt everyone are just adapted to that system. Every person expects reward for their works.. Even our mom expects "how is my cooking today"..
  
     Now a days every one is unique in their own way. 
    
     " Reward creativity, original thinking, research and innovation." 

              Our education system rarely rewards what deserves highest academic accolades. Deviance is discouraged. Risk taking is mocked.

      " Our testing and marking systems need to be built to recognize original contributions, in form of creativity, problem solving, valuable original research and innovation. If we could do this successfully Indian education system would have changed overnight ".

    Memorising is no learning; the biggest flaw in our education system is perhaps that it incentivizes memorizing above originality.  

SUGGESTIONS:

  Get smarter people to teach:
         For way too long teaching became the sanctuary of the incompetent. Teaching jobs are until today widely regarded as safe, well-paying, risk-free and low-pressure jobs. Once a teacher told me in high school “Well, if you guys don’t study it is entirely your loss – I will get my salary at the end of the month anyway.” He could not put across the lack of incentive for being good at teaching any better. Thousands of terrible teachers all over India are wasting valuable time of young children every day all over India.
It is high time to encourage a breed of superstar teachers. The internet has created this possibility – the performance of a teacher now need not be restricted to a small classroom. Now the performance of a teacher can be opened up for the world to see. The better teacher will be more popular, and acquire more students. That’s the way of the future

Effective deregulation:

        Until today, an institute of higher education in India must be operating on a non profit basis. This is discouraging for entrepreneurs and innovators who could have worked in these spaces. On the other hand, many people are using education institutions to hide their black money, and often earning a hefty income from education business through clever structuring and therefore bypassing the rule with respect to not earning profit from recognized educational institutions. As a matter of fact, private equity companies have been investing in some education service provider companies which in turn provide services to not-for-profit educational institutions and earn enviable profits. Sometimes these institutes are so costly that they are outside the rich of most Indian students.
 There is an urgent need for effective de-regulation of Indian education sector so that there is infusion of sufficient capital and those who provide or create extraordinary educational products or services are adequately rewarded.

Personalize education :

        Personalise education– one size does not fit all.. Assembly line education prepares assembly line workers. However, the drift of economic world is away from assembly line production. Indian education system is built on the presumption that if something is good for one kid, it is good for all kids.
 Some kids learn faster, some are comparatively slow. Some people are visual learners, others are auditory learners, and still some others learn faster from exper
 ience. 

       "If one massive monolithic education system has to provide education to everyone, then there is no option but to assume that one size fits all. 

    If however, we can effectively decentralize education, and if the government did not obsessively control what would be the “syllabus” and what will be the method of instruction, there could be an explosion of new and innovative courses are prepared towards serving various niches of learners. 


Allow private capital in education:

        The government cannot afford to provide higher education to all the people in the country. It is too costly for the government to do so. The central government spends about 4% of budget expenditure on education, compared to 40% on defence. Historically, the government just did not have enough money to spend on even opening new schools and universities, forget overhauling the entire system and investing in technology and innovation related to the education system. Still, until today, at least on paper only non-profit organizations are allowed to run educational institutions apart from government institutions. Naturally, the good money, coming from honest investors who want to earn from honest but high impact businesses do not get into education sector. Rather, there are money launderers and politicians opening “private” educational institutions which extract money from the educational institution through creative structuring. The focus is on marketing rather than innovation or providing great educational service. 
    Allowing profit making will encourage serious entrepreneurs, innovators and investors to take interest in the education sector. The government does not have enough money to provide higher education of reasonable quality to all of us, and it has no excuse to prevent private capital from coming into the educational sector.

Make reservation irrelevant:

      We have reservation in education today because education is not available universally. Education has to be rationed. This is not a long –term solution. If we want to emerge as a country build on a knowledge economy, driven by highly educated people – we need to make good education so universally available that reservation will lose its meaning.
 Education reservation India:

     There is no reservation in online education – because it scales. Today top universities worldwide are taking various courses online, and today you can easily attend a live class taught by a top professor of Harvard University online if you want, no matter which country is belong to. This is the future, this is the easy way to beat reservation and make it inconsequential.

Education system is the major issue in our country.. Nowadays everyone are getting education but not proper knowledge. If our suggestion becomes true, then none of the education system will be  like our country and we will be the example for all other countries.. 

 "Give the voice to change the Education System"..