A system that emphasises memorization and rote-learning
Unfortunately the Indian education system changed so drastically that the talent of student is being measured only based on the marks scored by him and the success of the educational system is being measured by the number of students who scored a centum. If the student couldn't perform well in the exams, he is tagged ‘Average student’ which is looked at as a disgrace for both to the student and the parents. Hence students are very busy in the rat race to score marks and ranks and are not in a position to realize the main purpose of education i.e. to learn new things. School is not just a place where you learn few subjects, pass the examinations and move out. It is a place where the foundation for the rest of the life like the moral values, behavior in the society and creativity are laid for tomorrow’s generation. But the present education hardly concentrates on these issues. There are very few schools where moral science and personality development counseling are part of their curriculum. There are very few schools with a proper school ground and art room leave, aside the importance given to the extracurricular activities.
The valuable childhood which needs to be spent in learning many a thing is getting curbed inside the four walls of a classroom with a ton of books on their back and pressure from multiple sides including teachers, parents slaying the creativity and enthusiasm of the students to do or think out of box and curtailing the young minds not to think beyond books and scores. As well said by many scholars and think tanks, a country with second highest population in the world is striving hard to win a single gold medal in Olympics, failed to produce a quality football team for the past 60 years and produced a single grand master in chess and no noteworthy achievements in any other sports and on the creative side, two Oscars and very few good writers and Artists. The above facts prove the importance given to the sports and creativity in the country.
More focus on non-academic disciplines is needed
There should be some revolutionary changes to be brought in the education system and few initiatives like ‘Marks for sports’ by NDTV in association with few other NGOs involved stalwarts in all sports in the campaigning to raise funds for the school which lacked basic sanitation and infrastructure like playgrounds. When a private organization could do a lot to improve the standards, how much can the government do? There should be special law to be passed in addition to the right to education act to make sports and personality development compulsory in the academic curriculum and some percentage of GDP should be allotted to infrastructure development in all the schools and stringent action to should be taken if the schools fail to meet the regulations. In addition, present reservation quota has to be amended thus limiting the caste based reservation and giving more reservation based on the performance in sports and other creative fields. If these measures are implemented in a right way, the day when India excels in other fields in addition to technology is not so far.
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