Our Educational System!!!...

How figuratively effective is a 95 and how inadequate is a 94.5??How fair is it, when a student tagged ‘OC’, of an unaffordable family standard with a better grade than another individual tagged ‘OBC’ of a better standard , isn’t admitted in some reputable institution? Perhaps the modus operandi of the Indian education system is perhaps well acquainted with the insensitivity and inadequacy of satisfactory answers to these questions.

Welcome to a world where numbers, averages and percentages dictate the working of young minds; where what you learn stands of no significance to the reality of how much you are tamed to learn. If a human brain can be tried and tested within a narrow band of 100 marks, a DaVinci could have well been as good as an Albert Einstein and a Bob Marley could be on a par with Bill Gates.

Our educational system is a jaded one wherein quantity precedes quality. Exams are here to test how much an individual can amass in his mind, without learning to ask those very basic questions we are all born to ask-‘what ,’why’ and ‘how’. If you can be led by what the syllabi tell you and heap up in mind, the innumerable and obsolete theory packed in textbooks, you’re the master of this educational system. And no matter, how intelligent you might be, for all your analytical skills, if you can’t trash in a decent aggregate, you’re always behind the line.

The irony is such that, a twelfth grade student would most likely be learning his Basic English-the noun, verb and the adjective for the time in his life and his language would be judged on whether he could distinguish between the present, past and the future tense. Language is no subject to clog your mind with theoretical crap. It should be taught as a tool of communication; of effective speaking and writing. It cannot be mastered by hauling attractive scores in lame examinations.

Has today’s education become a hot-spot in Indian money-making? Well, a single look at the monetary demands of today’s educational institutions might lead you to think that they would contribute to the national budget. If you can shell out a big sum, any institution is at your avail and waiting to gorge your money. Where’s the transparency in all this money-eating? Private institutions should be regulated strictly on their heavy monetary imposition.

Education is discovering one’s own ability, finding what you love to do and pursuing it. It’s not about producing a genius here and there, which ironically, in the language of our lame education tree, refers to ‘toppers’ with good-looking averages. It’s more about creating a balance where everything and everyone can fit in their rightful places. Unless it serves this purpose, education in any form and content, is only a weed.

Composed By:SHRIRAM(Junior) & Myself