The pictures of rush and long cues of students in newspapers before universities entrance test making headlines with percentages varying marginally and students yearning to get their choice to make career at best. The scenario no one wants to learn but everybody desire to be educated. In a civilized society we got growing literacy with more numbers than less knowledge. The educative masses are looking for a numerical knowledge than sustainable form of education.
Education has turned into a rush to get seat for acquiring more numbers than knowledge to discover a livelihood on the basis of arithmetical knowledge than actual understanding; everywhere in schools, colleges, and universities. We watch today the rush by parent child in long cues sweating to find a seat in the distinguished institution to catch up with the number game by the numbers, and for the numbers. The phenomenon reminds me Ranchor das of 3 idiots’ movie who energize the class in the scene of a movie to look for excellence in subject than success in numbers. The students, guardians and teachers are in a synchronize endeavor to distribute numbers than involve in the interactive process in disseminating knowledge among the wards; the mushroom growth of educational institutions from kinder garden to post graduate courses has unfurl the competitive spirit nothing but adding fuel to the fire against the rush not to forget the lure of foreign universities that attracts more numbers on academic sheet and bank account.
The one important factor missing in the whole extravaganza is the purpose of education; if we peep into the past the gurukul or madrasa method of teaching was vital in imparting education with the paramount motive for the growth of child’s delinquency in learning the prerequisites of subject to acquire intelligence than success, however education has traveled a long journey to undergo a populist experimentation by the policy makers against the stakeholders to put it into different methods at different time nevertheless the modern format of education has shrunk the purpose of education in both teaching and learning ways of schooling in understanding the knowledge more in amount of passing percentage than learning factor; another growing craze of learning with the help of technology is also minimizing the role of books and teachers and introducing the concept of self tutoring which is taking the digital shape with concerns of ethics and plagiarism among students creating yawning gap.
The cut throat competition with superficial pride and comparison by guardians to compare and evaluate their wards with others in terms of merit numbers has buckle the tiny toddlers to undergo surmount pressure to fetch more numbers to match their genius. However this growing trend has given rise in unhealthy development of child hood that cannot have his tryst with growing before his exercise in getting numbers through a continuous effort. This addiction has not left the institution and teachers who are in a contest to attract more number of revenue than to teach the subject with integrity to convey the understanding than tailor the subject to gain more marks to students which result in sub standard profit and sever loss. This is unfair to blame only students or teachers or parents but the need is collective effort should facilitate the change to remove the nomadic number affliction from the canon of education.
The learning institution functioning as government and private has to undergo tremendous transformation to adapt and abreast their learning methodologies to the changing needs, it is essential to make learning more qualitative, interesting and meaningful to acquire intelligence and recruit proper talents as teachers with proper teaching aids, and alternative teaching methods like to exploring creativity among students to acquaint with the subject to achieve success in knowledge than numbers in success. Imagine a doctor who has achieved a certificate to perform a surgery through the help of numbers, cramming, skimming, and other methods and imagine the doctor who has acquired knowledge and learn the prerequisites of surgery; who among two will fare better in the operation absolutely the later but the former is part of the profession who can do considerable damage if we do not endeavor to deliver a paradigm shift in stopping from the production of number products before knowledge products.
Ultimately the standard of education system should evolve to participate and promote learning in creating a productive future for the country, we need a adaptable fixed term policy to continue in facilitating the world class brains by distributing knowledge than numbers or grades, we can bring this reform by culling the rush through making learning a interactive activity, we can make it easy by accommodating students to have the privilege to learn and gain. The learning institution, guardian and student should espouse the mantra to understand knowledge than adjust knowledge in constituting a civil society that is out of number rush.
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