INSiGHTs

Does the Indian education system allow the student to think? My roomie asked this should be asked to our education minister. Then it crossed my mind, who’s the education minister? Never mind neither of us knew!

We are often confronted with age-old statements and definitions and our education system makes us to vomit them for the sake of examination and marks. One classic illustration is the environmental pollution and destruction of forests. Now all of us have the basic idea that people cut trees at an alarming rate that destroys our forests and the natural habitat. But how many of us have really known about the forests, number of trees or visited them to see the actual reduction or at least try to understand who are cutting the trees and why?

Our students harbour some misconceptions due to our education system which slowly get incorporated into their ideas over a period. And imagine the plight of the set of students who are not able to understand or mug the given topics. The state of teachers is even miserable with the pressure of finishing the portions on time. They are often forced to conduct activities mechanically without understanding their purpose and their relation to children’s learning process!

Films like Taare Zameen Par highlights the need for implementing a need based rational education system. Most developed countries practise activity based teaching process which inculcates in students not only the method of executing what is being learned but also makes them confident while implementing them. That, should be the purpose of education.

Yes I found out from wiki that MHRD is the MOE(Ministry of Education) in India headed by Kapil Sibal and current MoS(Minister of State) is Daggubati Purandeswari from AP

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