Education Reforms in Indian Settings

Recently, we all had our Mid Terms, one of my friends got low marks in physics and she told her teacher that she didn’t had interest in that subject but the teacher retorted back and said, if you don’t get good marks, you will not get good cgpa and no placement and the teacher seemed to be very satiated. On the other hand, the student got demoralized and that’s where I see that we have restricted the realms of education and reduced its definition to nothing more than a way to land up in a lucrative position.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The incident clearly throws light on the fact that we have failed to define the core meaning and the ultimate purpose of education to our students. Today, there is no education, but there is a huge education industry and the problem is not with our education system, its about the people who are delivering it at the end.

In today’s technological era, we are moving towards e-learning, we are using the most sophisticated classrooms to teach our children,  We teach about everything to our students except the basic ingredient of life that is “myself”, and that’s the core human thing which is needed at the end and that’s where we are lacking. On getting low marks, a student gets into emotional trauma, why? because we never worked upon channelizing their perspectives and their intellect and that’s why he/she is not having the clarity of thought process. Technology is important but today we need more humanity than technology.

Let’s take the example of Lovely Professional University. This university organizes many workshops for the betterment of students, but if you go outside and ask them, you will get to know that many of them are not interested in the workshop but they are interested in getting the certificates which will add up to their CV. Its not only about LPU, its everywhere, our focus is more on certificates to prove ourselves and not improve ourselves. And this vividly shows that we have failed to imbibe the value of willingness to learn something new and creative.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The time demands a big change. A change to change the perception of our children. A change which doesn’t focus on outcome of education but creates interest in the journey of being educated .A lot of reforms need to be made in education of Indian settings.

Firstly, instead of mastering the art of software engineering, we need to excel in the art of inner engineering, we need more to learn about ourselves , we need to channelize the perception of our students in such a way that they come out as well formed minds instead of well filled minds.

Secondly, we need to teach children how to expand oneself and explore the deeper dimensions of our intelligence.

Thirdly, the motive of willingness to learn should be the driving force of education, the brains of our students should be solution oriented and focusing more on larger vision than personal ambition. We need to inculcate values and ethics for making them a good citizen and a better human being.

Fourthly, We need to identify the hidden talents of our students and utilize their creativity in a productive way . We need to nurture them in a way that they can give right direction to themselves by their own. Schools should focus on developing human mind and human body at its fullest potential.

More than artificial intelligence, our areas of focus should be on innovating our inner intelligence and preparing our students for the universe not for the university.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The upcoming future would be more focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning, while technology is crucial, it will be far more powerful when in the hands of the emotionally literate geek. And to provide a future generation with high levels of emotional literacy we need to institutionalize empathy — to systematize it, making it a part of the foundations of our learning both at work and as school.

At last I would like to say that,

Education should be able to transform a stone into a statue and a moth into a butterfly. The students should be able to use education as a tool for self realization. The focus of reformative policies should be from individual excellence to societal growth.

Education should be like that  it can take us to any exciting place within ourselves.

Thank You! Jai Hind!