Here we lack!!!!!

“Education is not something that you merely learn, it is something that you assimilate and use in our life.”

Discourage rote learning

In India we used to have the above mentioned tradition years ago, epochs ago but the tradition has somehow become oblivion. The students or scholars learning about a century or more ago in the ages of saints and monks were not just confined in the four walls of schools, their intelligence was no just constricted to only themselves, they were encouraged and motivated by their GURUS (Teachers) to use their learned things in the milieu and were inspired to use the things that they were being taught and to apply their learned concepts in their daily life. And most probably this was the most crucial and ingrained fact behind the world’s first and most successful university i.e. Nalanda University (established by Pala Dynasty), this was the covert technique used by the Takshila University (Now in Present Day Pakistan) to make its students one of the best scholars of the world. The real application of the concepts was the secret behind the success of Aryabhatta, India’s greatest mathematician ever who discovered the number zero(0), Acharya Chanakya, The greatest politician, financial and kingmaker born ever in the nation, Srinivas Ramanujan, the Indian mathematician who discovered the value of Pi (π) up to the million decimal places (sans any equipment or machine used). This was the thing that used to make the capabilities of students transcend any limit, reaching to their maximum summit and pinnacle of potential.

But now India is lacking behind in all these things. Here nowadays rote learning is encouraged. Teachers and students nowadays are not having that great reputed relationship that they used to have with each other. The teacher just enters the class, starts teaching what is written in the book, never encouraging the students to think out of the box, the other thing is nowadays students are also not having that immense passion to learn that their previous generation counterparts used to have. Children just learn, not absorb they rote learn the things from the examination point of view, not from the using and applying concepts point of view.

Lets for example take something that every student knows, the fundamental rights allocated by the respected constitution of India. If you ask the rights everyone would give you a previously learned definition but if you ask them how these rights can be asserted then the hapless children would give the same absurd answer- “NOPE”, because they have not been taught to do anything like this in the real life.

For another example:- IIT (Indian Institute of Technology). Why the bar of IIT is deflating day by day? This is the reason behind this. Children take help of coaching centres and then the coaching centre make them do every type of questions due to which they clear the entrance exam but the thing is after clearing the JEE they are not able to do something new, they are not able to create a miracle and that’s why the level of this reputed institution is declining globally. It is not able to produce worth students who can really do anything.

And that why India is being trounced by other nations in terms of education.  This is the reason due to which we people are having dearth of great engineers, doctors and scientists who are able to do something new.

 

This problem is eating the country’s future and is very perilous for the people. But now the government has a great need to prepare teachers, to infuse the teachers with the passion to teach. Most of the teachers or budding teachers here are for earning good sum of money not because of the thing that they want to teach.

This is not the time to dither; we have to expose children to veritable learning; we have to mend the sagging education system; this is the time to make our education system impervious of rote learning. We have to prepare good teachers now who want to do something for the welfare of the future of the nation and that are why now we need to do something.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti