Revolution in Reservation

India need Anti Reservation

In order to develop our country, we are primarily dependent on of course the farmers, and comes the next and most important thing education, here my argument is not on our poor education or the students who might or might not be intelligent, I am talking about the equality, opportunity provided by our country.

Recently Kerala was in news, where most of the students have left their caste column blank. When the students only don't need the reservation then why the heck we are rushing towards reserving seats.

And of course how can we forget the politics and the business among the people, they don't bother of being educated or providing the right education, they just want their business to run, i don't know where they are heading towards, and what they want to prove to the world or at least to them. I feel there is no humanity left.
Because as I am growing I have noticed only the growth in buildings of schools,colleges, and off course buildings of private institutions, I know you want to show that you have sophisticated class rooms,ground,outdoor everything, but where is the knowledge?? do we get any knowledge out of it? They have some syllabus, we need mug up then again the papers get leaked, or the teachers help only to prepare for exam purpose there is no such things as life lesson.what  our kids are learning, I cant imagine such things are happening around us, bribe, leaking papers, selling of reservation seats, there will be auction for who pays more on seat, buzz-off, its disgusting. I am ashamed to even share it.

Few days back our farmer defense minister and the chief minister of Goa who has recently expired, said in one of his speech elaborated his before and after childhood experience, narrated by Manohar Parekar “I am from the village of Parra in Goa, hence we are called Parrikars. My village is famous for its watermelons. When I was a child, the farmers would organise a watermelon-eating contest at the end of the harvest season in May. All the kids would be invited to eat as many watermelons as they wanted. Years later, I went to IIT Mumbai to study engineering. I went back to my village after 6.5 years. I went to the market looking for watermelons. They were all gone. The ones that were there were so small.

I went to see the farmer who hosted the watermelon-eating contest. His son had taken over. He would host the contest but there was a difference. When the older farmer gave us watermelons to eat he would ask us to spit out the seeds into a bowl. We were told not to bite into the seeds. He was collecting the seeds for his next crop. We were unpaid child laborers, actually. He kept his best watermelons for the contest and he got the best seeds which would yield even bigger watermelons the next year. His son, when he took over, realized that the larger watermelons would fetch more money in the market so he sold the larger ones and kept the smaller ones for the contest. The next year, the watermelons were smaller, the year later even small. In watermelons the generation is one year. 

In seven years, Parra’s best watermelons were finished. In humans, generations change after 25 years. It will take us 200 years to figure what we were doing wrong while educating our children. Unless we employ our best to train the next generation, this is what  can happen to us. We must attract the best into teaching profession."
(Excerpt from a speech by India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar at an event hosted by the Federation of Gujarat Industries in Vadodara, India on 11 September, 2016. Transcription by Eisha Sarkar)
Simple but far sighted.. we lost a good politician.
Here what I want to share with you is the we have failed to give knowledge to a new generation, and the environment around us is polluted with lot more things which I am discussing in my next article.

When you compare with the other country and the system they have for their youth is far better than us. We say our system will consider merit, but no we are surrounded with category, kota all that stuff.

I personally believe that the reservation should be on the basis of income, ability, performance.
We all know that we have right to education , no doubt that we have all the right to question to fight on what we want and how we want it to be. 

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Collaboration for Indian Education

Positive side of Indian Education system :-

• Students go through many exams in their learning years. It teaches to analyse our strengths and weaknesses consistently.
• Indian education system emphasizes competitive spirit. Competition teaches students to unleash their full potential.
• Indian schools teach basic knowledge in all subjects.
• Annual system in school years helps slow learners.
• These days a lot of positive changes are happening in the education system of India. Emphasis on practical knowledge is increased.

Drawbacks of Indian Education system :-

• Rote learning. Emphasis on memorizing the facts rather than thoroughly understanding the concepts.
• Completely relying on text books.
• Giving more importance to text books than the teacher. There is no autonomy to teachers.
• Students have no freedom to think creatively and to question the content in the text books.
• Taking marks as assessment of student’s talent, when marks can be easily obtained by memorizing the pre-written answers from the text books.
• Students are not being taught why they are learning the particular subjects and topic. Text books do not mention how the topics are relevant in the practical life.
• There is no incentive for teachers to encourage critical thinking in children.
• Lack of infrastructure.
• Most of the syllabus is in theoretical form.
• Dearth of capable teachers in government schools.
• Low salaries of teachers.
• Pressurizing students for marks and grades. Student suicides are increasing day by day.
• Students are learning the subjects just to reach to the next level, i.e obtaining admission from the good college.
• Indian govt is spending only 3% of its GDP on education.
• As the Govt unable invest enough in the education sectors, private institutions roped in, and the result is High cost of education.
• No control of govt on fee structure of private educational institutes.
• Ethics aren’t being taught in schools. And the result of this is many educated persons lack ethics.
• Very low teacher to student ratio. As a result, teachers are not able to concentrate on each and every child. According to Right to Education, there should be one teacher for every 30 students.
• High prices of higher education in India. Indian Govt isn’t investing in the higher education aspirants.
• Rise of coaching centers for competitive exams and private tuitions for school children are is resulted by the poor education system, which couldn’t make students job-ready.
• Our text books do not mention the importance of physical activity and the extra curricular activities. Most of the schools in India do not have play grounds.
• Not encouraging research and innovation.
• Not teaching students about how to deal with daily life struggles.
• Incentivising hyper-competitiveness rather than encouraging to co-learn.
• Shortage of text books for govt school students.
• No proper career guidance available for students.
• Most of the govt school students are unable to do basic math. This reveals the negligence of teachers.
• Not everyone has access to school. A lot rural areas still have no schools. And there are many single teacher schools.
• In the top 100 universities list by ‘Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2016’, none of the Indian universities could make into the list.

• What Indian Government is doing :-

  • The ‘National Policy on Education’ was framed in 1986 and was amended in 1992.
  • New Education Policy (NEP) is going to be formed in 2016 to bring revolutionary changes in Indian education system.
  • Rashtriya Madyamika Abhiyan, 2009 – This scheme aims to enhance access to secondary education and to improve its quality.
  • Vidyanjali scheme, 2016 – to encourage extra curricular activities in students.
  • Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), 2013 – A mission to finance massively in state universities. But this wasn’t successful as expected.

  What still needs to be done :-

  • Indian Govt needs to invest heavily in infrastructure, teachers and in training teachers. At least 4% of its GDP must be invested in the education sector.
  • Our attitude towards marks and grades needs to be changed.
  • Method of teaching needs a relook. Teachers should encourage logical thinking & creativity in students. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn.”― Benjamin Franklin
  • Exams should be in a way that student’s understanding of the subject can be assessed.
  • Students should be exposed to economic and societal problems in the world.
  • Self help books and biographies of successful persons should be a part of the syllabus. So that children can mould their personalities and can handle stress well, once they start career.
  • Malnutrition effects child’s ability to learn. So, nutritional deficit must be taken care of.

  Situation in other countries :-

  • USA is spending 5.4% of its GDP in the education sector, whereas Brazil is spending 5.7% of its GDP.
  • China invests heavily in its students and universities. In the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2016, China could grab nine positions in the top 100 universities list.
  • In South Korea, which has high literacy rates, there is a high respect for teaching profession.

  Conclusion :- 

  There is a dire need for revolutionary changes in the India’s education system. Not just the syllabus and pedagogy, but also the attitude change towards the marks system need to be changed. With the effective learning system, India can successfully utilize its vast human resources.

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What might be the idle education be like?

Today am gonna share you something about a real life incidents we experience in school and college, which every one of us have come across it. So the intention here is not to degrade or either to complaint, lets just think and know what exactly is happening and where we are going wrong.
I want to highlight that no one is perfect as no one is correct either.But with the good guidance we can achieve anything in the world as we say Nothing is impossible.

Well, when i was in school I am quite a hesitatitive  and reserved kid, who just read whatever comes, jotting it and mugging up, never had an idea of we actually need to understand and can apply in real life!! isn't it strange? When a student have no idea of what the education is exactly, what it needs to be done, to get a basic education, the logic behind and the main concept  basic education must be, then how would he lead or how may he/she might be able to face the higher levels?
I  remember when I was in college, pursuing a degree in computer science and engineering. It was Java class. It was the new session, And a professor came in, who just had finished might be same degree or i mean to say a fresher - came in, cleaned the board which was cluttered with definitions from the previous lecture, and wrote in block letters:

JAVA

We watched silently, wondering what is going to follow. Unlike some of us, I had no idea of this language before as it was not included in our school curriculum.

The professor, scribbled 3 more words on the board below JAVA in his atrociously difficult-to-read handwriting. And then, the professor began what appeared to be his daily chant.

“Listen students…In order to understand JAVA, you need to know the basic concepts of Object Oriented Programming or OOP, which is the building block for learning JAVA.”

It was a 2 hour long lecture. By the end of the first hour, he was done with the basic principles of Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance and Polymorphism. I was confused whether to listen him carefully or i need to jot down notes for future reference. Doing both at a time did not seem to be a good option, given his speed of shuffling from one topic to another - which could give even Rajdhani Express a serious complex!

In the second hour, he scribbled some pieces of code on the board and continued, “This is Constructor…that is Overriding…that is Overloading”, as he simultaneously gave small examples.

This went on for the next few months, with Java theoretical lectures being conducted in this manner twice a week, and a dreary, dull Practical class once a week. By the end of the semester, we were expected to be ready for interview in Core Java, with additional basic knowledge in Applets.

Truth be told, by the end of the semester, I could not even write 10 lines of code properly without consulting the text book. Same was the case with most of my friends. Except those who had learned JAVA previously in school or had special aptitude in coding, most of us ran into tutions to somehow pass the semester.

Just imagine, we were learning one of the most prominent computer languages in the world, with very little hands-on work on the computer itself! And the entire dependency is on the black-board n the text book! Not to mention our Express-like Professor!

The fallacy in the system and lack of clear knowledge in the students were caught during job interviews when the interviewer asked us conceptual questions, leaving most of us stunned and horrified!

Now, JAVA was just an example. This is applicable for most science and commerce related, and some even arts related subjects. A lot is wrong with our education system. We learn A LOT by heart, but have very little understanding of how to implement that same knowledge in real life.

We are made to practise a hundred derivations and deductions in Physics and Chemistry, yet most of us do not know what is the physical significance of the derivations!

Remember, Farhan’s dialogue in 3 Idiots?

“Salt Water is a great conductor of electricity. 8th Standard Physics. Humne pada tha…Saale ne APPLY kiya”

Translation -

Salt Water is a great conductor of electricity. We had only read it in Physics text books in the 8th Standard, but he(the hero of the film) applied it!

Now, this is a fun scene. Of course, we do not need to behave like Rancho here. But the implication is clear.

So, what is ideal education? One, with a little more experimental, demonstrative studying. One that encourages students to explore various authors. One that helps us relate the formulae with real life situations. One that encourages to analyze, and not just mug up.

Look at this Professor, and see how he teaches Physics:

Here is an example of an interactive English class:

How about History class?

Students give instant attention to lessons when the lecture is made more interactive with activities, quiz, etc. And to achieve this, expensive gadgets may not always be required.

I hope this answers your question…:)

Sh

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Education system in India needs update!

Yes, you heard it right, but before going to the point, that the Indian education system is far better than other countries, this is sure for a while.

As the fact that we know is every system has a bugs and it need to be updated time to time, thus the point behind the title.

Undoubtedly present education system in India needs update as we are following the same pattern from our ancestors continuing from 1990’s, as in 2018 there is a lot of changes in overall world and these system lacks in giving opportunities to those who completes and graduates, this will make us think that Education is just a certificate not a qualification in India, which makes us puppet where we fall for little satisfactions and with more expectations, which is making us weaker in our ability. This is the one main reason for increasing un-employment in India.

Many students in India complete bachelors and masters and do they  at least  end up with joining as executives in Mnc’s without related to their education background? No? Amm.. yes for some extraordinary people. In some scenarios, few Indian youth without education makes more very good career with great bank balance. Many startup founders and business owners has no MBA, but they take very good and innovative strategies in marketing, for them MBA is just a qualification. Actually they had very good practical knowledge and command on the particular field and they aim for success.
This is where we are lacking with our present education system in India. Actually higher education needs more practical and real life case studies to understand more about the concept and there is no such education system in India. Over population and government policies and schemes makes higher education available for free in India, without the proper plans and pre-requisites for higher education gives poor in quality. A thing which available for free doesn’t taste good, this will correctly apt for current education system.

[Guest Post by- Rohit Agepati]

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Sakhi foundation- Education for girls #EFL

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Are we getting Quality of education or only quantity?

Quantity or quality

Quality

The education we are getting is knowledge based or quantity based? Are we getting the quantity of education or only the quantity? We need to analyse deeply, we need to have dig into it.

According to my knowledge we are only getting the quantity of education. Our system lacks education in quality.

However we are bound with the facts that if our percentile is less then we can’t survive, but the story behind getting highest is mug-up the quantity of what we have mugged it. The more we mug up the more chances of highest marks. Here am not judging the IQ or knowledge of students, in fact we have the extremely talented students ever. No doubt about that.

Am talking about the education we get, am talking about the environment we are getting to acquire knowledge, we don’t have any exposure towards the ongoing things outside the class, school, college, region, state, country and world  and so on.

In other country they don’t have tests or exams until they reach to their higher primary level (class 5). They will just teach by their teacher about how to behave?  How to tackle real life problems?

How to get rid of the real life situation? How he/she can get exposure to the real world? And they will most importantly try to build the confidence and self- esteem, which is now a days very important in which we lag-off.

We even have one subject called value education, it teaches us the behavioural pattern and the values and ethics with that we do have many a subject and exams and grades, we will be warned by the words like if u get good marks and good grades you will be promoted to the higher level, if you fail to this you will be continued with the same class as considered failure, and that particular student will go to some lower sections like c or d, which even lowers the confidence and the interest of the students in studies. 

They will be treated as prisoners who are dull, not eligible or not capable to sit with other intelligent students. But with my experience those are the students who will achieve something or anything in future. But with that situation some will go in depression, they do undergo the teasing of their classmates or other students, and the scolding and stricter teacher and parents. This may lead some very critical problems and mental issues, the student has to fight with themselves to come out from the depression, it’s horrible.

The students in private institute are treated as factory workers where they need to do homework, classwork, handwork and hard work, even after doing that also they can’t be able to tackle or face the exams which the institute itself will decide and they will be provided a manual for the exams which is a short notes and covers all the syllabus, if you do that you will clear the exam. Awesome, isn’t it?

This is how the students getting spoiled by giving spoon feeding activities, which might affect in future. They will be trained as the horses, who just see what the rider want to show or what the rider what it to see? It just follows the instructions given by the rider, not what it wants to see, It really doesn’t know anything like where it is going and where to stop? It just has no idea; in the same way, our students are, they will be controlled and instructed by the teachers and parents.

These private institute and public institutes will insure at the initial step when the student is getting admitted, that they will provide all the facilities like stationary, cloths, transport facility, and extra classes like tuitions etc. but by charging extra, this shows they are making education as business.

With all this facility also he/she may fail. Because we need to have 100% knowledge base education, but the only focus of the institute is to grab money and students, the more the students the more the money comes.

If this is the situation of the institutes with the latest technology equipped and fulfilled with the resource, then what about the government schools and colleges? Where they lack in resources, place, no equipment, not much exposure to the reality, but they sometimes get topped. I mean to say is intelligent students with interest and curiosity to learn new things can learn anywhere without any resources and systematic way of study.

Small story:

Recently in some article and in news I have read that a village girl who is poor and does all her home-works and homeworks too has secured 1^st grade but comparatively the urban girl/boy might not get good marks, but she has all the resources, materials and experts guidance high class teachings but she dint get through, why? What might be the reason? Was it because she was unable to meet the requirement like what she needed or how she needed to be prepared? Did she fail in preparation? Or did the teachers fail to prepare her?  It’s all unclear.

There should be a standard and quality of education, the planned strategy and the dynamic ability of teachers where they need to mould with each and every student’s because teachers are the creators and the god for the students. The quality of education lacks in India as Charles Murray says in his Real Education.

Conclusion: Back to the Reality

We need to change the way the schools do business. We also need to redefine educational success.

My targets are not the usual suspects. I do not inveigh against high dropout rates, low test scores or obdurate teachers unions. My indictment is much broader. The education system is living a lie.

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Comparison of Ancient Education with Modern Education

Ancient Education Vs Modern Education

Ancient education

Ancient education:

In ancient times, India had the Guru Kula system of education where anyone who wishes to study should have to go to a teacher's (Guru) house and had to request to be taught by a guru. If he/she accepted as a student (shishya) by the guru, he would then have to stay at the guru's place and help in all activities at home. This has not only created a strong bond between the guru and the shishya but also taught the student everything about running a house and most importantly facing the real problem in their real life.

The guru taught everything the child wanted to learn, from Sanskrit to the Holy Scriptures and from Mathematics to Metaphysics. The students have to stay as long as he/she wished to or until the guru felt that he had taught everything he could teach for taking the challenges everyday life. All the learnings were closely linked to nature and to life, and it is not only confined to memorizing some information or gaining the knowledge.

The modern school system came to India, including the English language too, originally first by the Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay in the 1830s. The curriculum was confined to modern subjects such as science and mathematics, and subjects like metaphysics and philosophy were considered unnecessary. Teaching was confined to classrooms and the link with nature was broken, as also the close relationship between the teacher and the student.

Establishment of Modern education

The Uttar Pradesh Board of High School and Intermediate Education was the first Board set up in India in the year 1921 with jurisdiction over Rajputana, Central India and Gwalior. In 1929, the Board of High School and Intermediate Education, Rajputana, was established. Later, boards were established in some of the states. But eventually, in the year 1929, the board was amended and it was renamed to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). All schools in Delhi and some other regions came under the Board. It was the function of the Board to decide on things like curriculum, textbooks and examination system for all schools affiliated to it. Today there are thousands of schools affiliated to the Board.

Universal and compulsory education for all children in the age group of 6-14 was a cherished dream of the new government of the Republic of India. This is evident from the fact that it is incorporated as a directive policy in article 45 of the Constitution. But this objective remains far away even more than half a century later. However, in the recent past, the government appears to have taken a serious note of this lapse and has made primary education a Fundamental Right of every Indian citizen. The pressures of economic growth and the acute scarcity of skilled and trained manpower must certainly have played a role to make the government take such a step. The expenditure by the Government of India on school education in recent years comes to around 3% of the GDP, which is recognised to be very low.

New schemes and development in Education in India

Right to Education

In recent times, several major announcements were made for developing the poor state of affairs in education sector in India, the most notable ones being the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. The announcements are,

1. To progressively increase expenditure on education to around 6 percent of GDP

2. To support this increase in expenditure on education, and to increase the quality of education, there would be an imposition of an education cess of all central government taxes.

3. To ensure that no one is denied of education due to economic backwardness and poverty.

4. To make the right to education a fundamental right for all children in the age 6-14 years.

5. To universalize education through its flagship programmes such as Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Mid-Day Meal.

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