Aug 11, 2013

Finally what is (y)our contribution?

Education System of India

Teachers always blame the system, student blame teachers and need only marks, government needs money to run the institutions and finally who is responsible for a bad educational system?  It is the student who suffers and finally the nation loses.  Those who are brilliant find a room in any foreign university and starts contributing there! This is because, there is no proper platform in India for the engineers and scientists to grow. Why is that India depending on foreign countries for weaponary?  Why is that government promote foreign investment beyond a limit without encouraging traditional and domestic industries in all the sectors?
A lot of people write about the educational system in the news papers, discussions in the television channels, etc.  But finally, the question is what is (y)our contribution in improving Indian educational system?  I would say that as teachers, we can blame the students or the government or the statutory bodies only to a limited extent. It it the duty and responsibility of a teacher to make sure that a good percentage of students he/she teaches should come out with good knowledge in the subject taught.  I have seen teachers saying "this topic is out of syllabus".  Even if a topic is out of syllabus, what is harm in teaching that topic?  After all, knowledge is knowledge only.  Teaching is considered as a sacred job in Indian system and it is not a mistake to teach any topic even if it is outside the scope of syllabus.  The fact is that even if the topics are related, most of the teachers in teach only what is mentioned in the syllabus.  Syllabus book is their authority and not the teaching profession. One can also observe that the content in the syllabus is always based on the table of contents in one of the text books! Who knows if the publisher has bribed the university to recommend that textbook as the prescribed book? A good tecaher will always refer to more textbooks. Thanks to the internet revolution! Now there are lot of teaching materials available in the internet. There are tens of thousands of materials on all the topics and subjects under the Sun.

Now let me ask my dear teachers, what is your contribution to improve the educational system?

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