Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Quality of education in India - A study
"According to an ASSOCHAM Eco Pulse (AEP) Study “Comparative Study of Emerging Economies on Quality of Education’, India was ranked at the second last place among seven developing countries in terms of education quality as it score minimum points in primary, secondary, tertiary and demographic parameters as compared to other six emerging economies of the world."
http://www.assocham.org/prels/shownews.php?id=1815
This is quite disconcerting and reflects the urgent need of focusing our attention on this critical issue. I'll write on this more later on....
For the full report visit -
http://www.assocham.org/arb/aep/quality-of-education_nov_2008.pdf
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The cause of Education i feel is what i feel most passionately about. I look forward to a day where the children in our country may not just know how to spell their names correctly but can stand upto the values of their names.
ReplyDeleteIt is only through education that all the evils in our society can be eradicated and the burden I feel is not just upon the shoulders of the teachers or the so called educationists but by far upon all of us who've been lucky enough to call ourselves educated.
Inside the classrooms I see the children(especially the elementary classes) worshipping their teachers as God. To them it is strange to know that even the teacher has his/her parents, siblings, friends and relatives! She, to them belongs to a special specie who according to them KNOWS ALL...
And the teachers to portray themselves as the ones who KNOW ALL. What is wrong in being a learner!? And saying, "Hey Kids! Even I do not know what you just asked me. But come let us find out together."
I read a few of your blogs upon education friend and there's just one thing that i would want to speak about and it is about taking forward the children's own interests and aspirations in a way that they develop into happy adults and not our generation types- who are what they are because their parents or the society wanted them to be what they are.
Scaffolding of the knowledge base the children carry, needs to be the prime focus of any eduactional set up, by just letting the children raise questions we provide them the platform to think. We adults may not be able to answer their queries but it is all right 'coz by all means it is the questions that carry more importance than giving them answers.
Helping them build connections between what they know and what they want to know helps them actually know.
Parents are interested in getting encyclopedias for their kids and the kids too develop fascination about them bcoz of the praise the world provides them when they talk things like bones, heart, liver, food pipe, aeronautics etc at the age where they just need to be aware of the nature's bounty, their immediate environment and delve deeper into it. Not just to know more about it but to be able to generate curosity in the world that for a child exists and he sees with his own eyes and not the one that is created by the adults for him.
LEARNING doesn't mean acquiring more information but expanding the ability to produce the results WE TRULY WANT IN OUR LIVES.
Thanks for sharing your views Maggie. You've really hit upon the points that I had in mind but never got them written down here. So thanks for completing this blog for me :)
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The comment above is very genuine and practical. I hope this can be implemented more in our education system.
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