The education system needs serious reforms

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Hemalatha said:   1 decade ago
In my point of view, definitely we should change our education system. Because in state board examination (12th standard) having subjects like maths, physics, chemistry, computer science, biology these only. These also important.

But what I am going to say is, the CBSE students learned C, C++, Java, HTML those programming languages in school days itself, but state board student doesn't know anything about that languages.

During the college period CBSE students can learn again those concepts. But state students only facing the troubles like me. So present education system should be change. No private schools, colleges. All are should be same.
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Harinee said:   1 decade ago
Hi friends.

There are some good and bad things in our education system.

First of all, the private schools and colleges are started to get money for the people not for providing education. In most of the private institutions they get more fees from the people but they won't teach in a good way.

It can provide visual education to students to remember easily. It should also provide education to the poor people to increase the standard of living of people.
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Suraj said:   1 decade ago
The biggest problem in our education system is the mentality that our parent and students has set, which is the better marks you get, the better you are in studies and better job you will get. Due to this each and every field brings out few quality students because most of the students mug up the theories and concepts, and they don't know where to apply it.

So our education system need to change this mentality and establish more of practical knowledge through experiment, projects, live examples, etc. Many of the renowned private institutions have changed the way of teaching, but the government schools still need a lot to work upon it. As we have 70% of rural population and every student cannot pay such high fees of a private college or school.
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Shubhangi said:   1 decade ago
I think our education system doesn't provide us chances to give yourself time for recreation. It is based on theory and not practical based intellectual knowledge in countries like Japan vocational training is provided from sixth grade onwards as compared to India. So our education system should be changed in such a way that students get adamant and say that they want to study, let them go!
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Santanu said:   1 decade ago
As a child I never got to know why do I study. They made me learn and somehow I mugged up a bit. But as I am growing I started correlating the need to study with cope up in life. I am always interested in electronic toys, how they work and all those art and crafts, but they never allowed or gave me time to get involved in those thing and get some knowledge. I somehow decided to deal with them till 10 and thought to get a lot of science practicals and projects to do in the lab, so I choose Science.

But there also they made me drown in lots of formula and laws and numeric, and about most of them, I had no idea of their importance in my life or in my interests. So I never had that zeal to study my course materials. I passed my days by small experimentation, observations, learning what I wanted from You Tube (because I can see things practically there) and getting from online sites and videos.

I gathered some practical knowledge and applied them to create several drones, planes and many projects but passed my exams with not so very good marks. So now, no good engineering college would select me and if somehow I get selected they will live me alone in middle of vast ocean of formulas and I will lose interest in life.

Student join engineering to get job, to get job they chase for marks, for marks they just mug up and stay upto the limits of their text books and this results in no innovation or invention by our technical students of our deemed institutions. Its just what I regret in my life that I am not able to study what I want to things have changed lets change the way to understand them.
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Nidhi said:   1 decade ago
Today's education system is challenging but it needs some changes. The education system puts more emphasis on theoretical knowledge than practical. Quality of education must be improved rather than quantity.
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Nivi said:   1 decade ago
In my point of view education is not just learning the things theoretically but also reaching the actual point of things through practical way. We have learned many theorems and formulates in our childhood but where we all are applying them in our real life's.

Students should me educated in such a way that they need to know what they are learning and where they have to apply their knowledge in proper way, in which our education system in lacking.

And in other countries there are lot of facilities and opportunities provided to student's innovative and creative thinking and they are been encouraged. Where as in our country we have innovative and creative ideas but we don't have proper facilities to implement them that's where our education system is lagging and that's the one of the reason many of them are flying to other countries to do their masters.
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Ravi said:   1 decade ago
Hai friends when I think about the education system in India I feel sad because the youth have so much potential which is being wasted. The current education system has many problems which are complicated but can be fixed. To solve these problems it is important to identify the root causes of the problems.

The current education system we are following is basically the old British system which replaced the Gurukula system. In some ways this change was an improvement, for example education for everyone with more emphasis on reading and writing. In some ways it was a step backward for example, less importance given to understanding concepts, thinking skills and creativity, relationship between teacher and student and practical education. Many mathematical and scientific ideas were developed as a result of the Gurukula education system. These are recorded in the Vedas. In this way India has made a valuable contribution to the world.

I do believe there were many people who were genuinely trying to educate the Indian people for the benefit of the people. However I don't believe this was the general intention of our former colonial guests. According to a document written in 1835 by the British, one of the purposes of establishing the education system in India was to create "a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. Did they fulfil their purpose? Does this class still exist in India today? Are they more educated or superior because they are like that? In my opinion it is time to move on from that kind of thinking and also from the style of education system which encourages it. Even the education system in UK has changed and improved but in India we are still following this old British system.

India needs to develop its own education system which includes the best ideas from the Gurukula system, British system as well as other education systems from around the world. The mentality that marks only are important needs to change. Sometimes we learn more from our failures than our successes. We need to educate our youth to become good skilled citizens, some of whom will become strong incorrupt leaders who serve the people instead of their own interests. Instead of empty words we need action from our politicians and educational leaders. I like the idea of government officials having to send their children to government schools. I think that would inspire them to improve the education system more quickly and be stricter with the assessment of the standard of teaching at schools and colleges. India has been used and abused for centuries. Now it is time to stop punishing ourselves and give the youth the good quality education they deserve.
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Srk said:   1 decade ago
In India education system is pretty bad. They don't teach kids to be creative, all they care about is good grades. Kids don't know anything that's outside their textbook. Anyone can get good grades by reading same material over and over but does he really understand it? no.

It's very important to understand kids and since our country is going through population crisis, no one really cares about kids. Parents pop them out like candies and throw them in school. Teachers beat them up if they don't perform good, they come home and parents beat them up. It's damaging psychologically and emotionally. These kids grow up and repeat the same cycle as their parents because they don't know any better.

Modi needs to spend more time in US and learn their education system and then bring that same process here. Getting good grades is useless when you can't apply that same education in real world and make it useful.
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Akki said:   1 decade ago
Our education system needs serious reforms. The reforms should be made from the base itself. Everyone is concerned about how much marks the student scored in the examination than how much knowledge he or she acquired. So the students start mugging up all things, thus our education system is now spoon feeding.

There is no practical knowledge in our education system, its all about theoretical facts. Theoretical study is needed but we are more focused on theoretical studies than practical studies. Today thousands of engineers are passing out from our country, but only a few of them are quality engineers, its because of the lack of practical knowledge.

Our India doesn't have a Google or Microsoft, its because of lack of innovation among our students. We are focused on mugging up rather than creativity.

Is its the high time to take immediate steps to provide quality education to all. It will not only increase the knowledge level of individual but also increase the development of the country.
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