Amid the ongoing economic as well as the social development
of our nation, one thing that has been unfortunately left out is our failing
education system.
A nation’s strength doesn’t actually depend on anything but
its human capital and human capital is just a fruitful consequence of an
ingenious education system but the most heartrending thing is that, the nation
which once housed Takshila University, the first ever and the biggest
university of the whole world is today on the back front in the global education
system.
According to an education report , between the years
2010-2014, the percentage of rural children in grade four capable of
double-digit subtraction dropped from 58% to 40%, fourth graders able to read
first grade text fell from 68% to 56%. Such disastrous features of the Indian educational
system suffice to prove the contemporary condition of our education system and
today is the right time we strike a deadly blow over all the problems engulfing
our education system so as to generate the most important jewel for any nation
i.e. human resource capital.
Today, our education system lacks due to a lot of reasons. The
first and foremost thing being our downgraded policies regarding the schools.
Till class VIII, according to the norms, no student can be made to repeat any
class. Such an unwanted measure by the government leads to a huge
underperformance on behalf of the children and when they suddenly enter class
IX, they are not very well acclimatized with what they had read earlier,
leading to weaker concepts and hence an overall descent of the person’s
educational life. If this is not enough, the coaching institutes do the rest of
the job. Today, due to lack of any concern on behalf of government in the area
of education, various coaching institutes have come out as the sole owners of
the whole education system. For ex. IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) hosts
the toughest engineering exam to select its few students. Now with the
increasing popularity of IITs and its JEE (Joint Entrance Exam), it is now a
customary thing to see every senior secondary student or even starting from
class VI onwards, to go to coaching institutes. These coaching institutes
charge a whopping amount of not less than 1 lakh and this extortion type
business continues on, due to which only the rich can survive. The poor
students who actually have a great caliber in science stream are made to surrender
as they have no options because they can’t bear such heavy expenses and the
ones who are actually not talented but are made to go through the rigorous
coaching would crack IIT because of so many facilities that they get. Take the
example of Kota, Rajasthan, the IITians factors. Almost every first rankers (except
a few) hails from Kota’s coaching institutes, but the bitter truth is that to
survive in Kota and study for IITs, there you need to shell out more than three
to four lakhs for a year or two. Various students who are not even capable to
clearing the exam get the best coaching there with teachers (who have been
students at IITs) just because they have huge sums of money while the ones who
actually deserve things are left out. The NCERT books which the system endorses
are completely worthless and outdated which don’t even cater to complete JEE
syllabus. The books which were written so many years ago, are never updated
completely in order to cater to the need of school students. These books even
don’t suffice for the school board exams, what to say about the prestigious JEE
exam. No government till now has any interest in this matter and negligence on
behalf of authorities continues to be a deadly nightmare for the children. One
more thing that astonishes me is the publishing of books in Hindi and
continuing of Hindi medium. In this world of technology, it’s a shame on our
part to deprive our students from the global language i.e. English. I am not
saying anything against the mother tongue, but what’s the need to teach our
students in Hindi. From the basic level only, English education must be there
rather than teaching students in Hindi and then creating a virtual divide
between Hindi and English medium in India. One more shameful thing is that we
have even created science and maths books in Hindi, and the children who are in
Hindi medium face a lot of problems. First of all they can never find good
scientific books in Hindi and even if they start studying that of English, they
would get confused at various terms with which they have not been familiar.
Moreover, if these children would ever want to go abroad and continue extensive
study over any subject, they could never go there due to their language
boundations because they are taught science in Hindi and the scientific words and
terms developed in Hindi exist nowhere in the world. Such things continue to
mar the education system of our country and this is the true reason, why we
have such a low number of Nobel Prize winners in science and why mathematicians
like Ramanujan have stopped taking birth in our nation.
Moving on to one more disastrous aspect, the quantity of
teachers in our educational institutions has surely gone up but the quality has
taken a nosedive. Though I accept that there are certain great teachers in India
who are exemplary but the quality of teachers in the schooling system has
seriously gone down. Due to excessive amount of teachers being there in the
country, the schools choose the one demanding the lowest pay grade and end up
getting inefficient teachers who at last destroy the children’s future.
Teachers at the higher secondary level too are the ones who don’t know the
things themselves but are teaching the “bright” future of our nation. Though
some teachers teach by heart, but the quantity of such teachers is practically
negligible over the plethora of those who are just polluting the profession and
are inefficient.
One more thing that has also seriously affected the total
education system is the reservation system. I can never understand why
reservation in education system is done on the basis of cast and not on
economic status. How can you believe that a poor Brahmin was given more perks than
a millionaire SC/ST/OBC?
JEE MAIN 2015 Cutoff
|
Category
|
Cut Off
|
|
General
|
105
|
|
OBC-NCL
|
70
|
|
SC
|
50
|
|
ST
|
44
|
The above given table clearly explains how discrimination is
done to students in the education system. Let me give you an example of two of
my friends who appeared in the above mentioned exam. One of them, belonging to
ST category, had been taking coaching for almost four years(starting from his
ninth standard) the other was a Brahmin, who wasn’t rich enough to get the coaching
and use to get old books from his seniors. Despite of so many hardships, the
latter managed to score a score of 100 and the former scored a score of 72. The
one belong to the ST category clearly up while the one from the General couldn’t
even qualify to give the JEE-Advanced, succeeding this exam.
Now just tell me, what’s the mistake of poor boy? Is taking
birth in general category a curse in India? It truly is. Politicians beat about
the bush and do nothing about this matter as this issue is directly linked with
their vote banks and until and unless a leader who loves his nation rather than
his votes, comes, nothing would happen in the country. I strongly support
reservation, but not on the basis of caste and creed but on the basis of
economic status. Thousands of poor people belonging to the general caste are
just rolled down due to politics while millionaire lower castes are enjoying so
many perks. It’s a shame for the fastest growing economic country in the world
and a matter of disgust to every Indian. The constitution committee gave
reservation for just a limited period (as it was pretty necessary at that time
for the downtrodden lower castes) but extending that ahead by the successive
governments is something that exposes political motivations of various party.
Parties which play politics on caste are a shame to the nation and stigma on
nationalism. At a time when we need to talk about nation, these people continue
to stop our progress on matters of caste. Such a bunch of fools need not be in
the administration of the nation. But politics would continue and things won’t
change until and unless the people of the nation rise up and if delay is made
such things, let alone other areas, would destroy the Indian education system
and eradicate our biggest strength, the Indian knowledge.
Today is the right time when we decide whether we need to
change our destiny or to just sit and curse the policy makers. Such things
would continue until and unless people of the nation don’t rise up and demand
things to be set out right for the future of their children, otherwise one day
everything would be lost.
JAI HIND,
JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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