How does it feel to be one of those students who constantly bears the brunt of abysmally poor quality of education- education that glorifies rote learning when in all its might, it should promote root learning? Definitely not good, yeah?
Schools in India- public, private or boarding, have swords of fangled and shoddy education dangling over their heads. You would often come across several schools in the posh locations of Delhi-like the public schools in Noida or Gurgaon that would brag about their impeccable educational facilities. No matter how brilliant a school is in terms of its infrastructure or faculty, unless the deeply entrenched mediocre education system is pulled out of shambles of mediocrity, no best boarding school or public school in India can do much good to the youth.
The most glaring aspect of the Indian education system is that it accentuates the students’ power to memorize rather than concentrating on the power to comprehend. The basics are often shoved off at the back bench and what prevails is the term called ‘cramming’. Intelligence is ruthlessly associated with gaining top marks in schools and colleges; whether the student understands the roots of the concepts, well the very thought is chucked away in a bin.
Boarding or residential schools in India are garnering laurels for promoting practical education-the one that focuses on the very crux of concepts. Students in boarding schools are often taught to deal with real life situations – inside, as well as outside the classrooms. Yet, a great schooling system in India remains a shard in the oblivion.
A lot needs to be done to uproot Indian education from the threatening shackles of rote learning. The entire curriculum needs to be analyzed, re-analyzed and re-structured to form a coherent and a more endearing system of learning. One that would rather test students on their I-Q levels, than on M( Memorizing)-Q levels.
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