India with all its advancements and
strenuous people, has become sincerely a very hard working country in all its
aspects. The multifaceted nation has longed for many much-improved
amenities unabated. Be it polio control, HIV virus control or
political agendas like proposing a strong and effective lokpal bill etc. The
nation has indeed truly engrossed itself in every possible drudgery to augment
its quality. But, like many other stagnated and sub standard genres of the
nation, the education system that is rendered today in the country stagnates and lynches the most eminent aspect among students i.e. "knowledge",
which can be regarded as generation of ideas.
Since, the very first day of his
class, a child is made to cram whatever is written in the book, irregardless of
whether he comprehends the logic behind it or not. He
is advertently made to contemplate and know that he needs to score
100/100 in his class test and just after the day of his test, he's made to do
the same thing repeatedly due to which the cycle of "killing
creativity and generation of ideas" keeps on repeating. Consequently, the
child abdicates the very notion and idea of being "different" or "innovative".
The aftermath of the conditioned environment rendered to the child during his
studies is so egregious that he becomes pusillanimous even towards
his own thinking and just keeps himself engaged in the drudgery of scoring "High"
in his tests. What even makes this attribute more negative is that this process
of consuming info in some form and than spitting it out, doesn't even
help in future prospects.
The prospective students very often find it convoluted to cope up
with the cacophony of the arduous work required in organizations. Eventually, their
creativity and inventive approach, which got lost and deliberately suppressed
in their early days, begin haunting their future prospects. Of course,
there have been exceptions such as C.V Raman who won the Nobel Prize while
working out in his lab in kolkata and greats like sarvapalli radhakrishan who
got recognized globally due to his Indian literature research in
the west. But then, those were the persons who never shifted their paradigms of
dynamism. Today, we really need a sustainable approach towards the tender and
budding careers of many in the nation.
At
present, India accounting for the paramount number of illiterates, is
there any other option that we are left with?? Rather than to indoctrinate our
people by being pro-active and by grasping that knowledge means
"generation of ideas". So let those ideas and notions flow
through those tender and young minds seamlessly.
Who knows, a budding
tyro today can turn into a vanguard like Einstein tomorrow. The
current education system curbs the growth and development of great minds that
the country possesses. In the scuffle of excellence Vs experience, we need to
maintain a very stiff and adamant balance between the duos.
An unequivocal fact
is that the past and present scenario of teachers and scholars has also been
egregious and repugnant throughout the nation. In
various universities and colleges today, the status of the teachers
is too nebulous. Very often, the scholars are themselves not present to abide
by their obligations. The revolution has to be taken sporadically.
Nevertheless, It may seem surreal owing to the whereabouts of the present
academic format in our nation but the palpable radical is needed at this
stage.
We can request all the
mavens and vanguards in the field of knowledge to raise cognizance about the
deteriorating conditions of the vivid minds our nation possesses and quash
the baneful conditioning of the youth's innovation and
benison.
Because a child of today
will be the Einstein of tomorrow...
