Indian Education System - What Need To Change

Our Education System Is Only Focused On Exams. Knowledge Is Not A Priority!

The general education system is focused only on examinations rather than training students for the future and really testing their knowledge. Because of this, students are forced to take tests that show only their retention powers, not their actual capacity or knowledge. So engineers today cannot do actual work in technology and doctors do not go to people who need their services.

Today, students are completely professionally-oriented and they take examinations for the same rather than to gain knowledge, or do research in the subject. India’s education system looks at commercial gains only and students are trained to look at their monetary future. The curriculum is also built around clearing an exam and getting into particular professions. Learning is not a priority.

1. Over Commercialization of Education

Any nation that educates its young generation for the sole purpose to make them eligible to contribute to the national / social progress, can be sure that simultaneously they can take care of their self too. So the real profit comes only when the students learn and starts contributing, when he starts earning. The real return on investment will be the taxes paid by the educated, when he/she earns profit in his business / occupation.

The students perspective on the mark

A student comes to a conclusion that in the end only the marks are going to determine their future options, their interest towards securing more marks preoccupy their minds. As a result, there is less focus on relating learning towards their life and achieving excellence in subject matter.

If we go and tell a student to study for excelling in a subject, but not marks, they will give a laugh and rejects the idea outwardly. The parents also do the same. And of course you can’t even initiate this topic to institutions. It’s considered as a taboo.

The story of marks does not get over as the student secures some marks. There starts the real drama. The publicly announcing of the results comes in place. This is a huge draw back / error in the education system according to us. This leaves students to compare oneself with others on various subjects and cultivates inferior / superior thoughts on their minds.

Lack of Choice and Knowledge

Besides several elite schools in India, the subjects taught in high school usually range from Languages, Math, Core Sciences, Economics, Accounting and Commerce. In essence, we're not given much freedom of choice or freedom to explore. Largely, our decision to pick our eventual stream in high school is governed by parental advice, and social trend. In my case, for example, in the 11th grade, I had a choice between Commerce, Science and Humanities - not very many options. The things that governed my decision to choose Science were a. I had no idea what Commerce was, b. I had little to no idea what Humanities was, c. Science was what traditionally 'smart' students took and of course d. All I'd studied so far was science and I liked it. By and large, the same thought process is true for everyone. The students that chose Commerce either didn't qualify for Science or were from business backgrounds, and obviously told by their parents they needed to study 'Commerce' to uphold the family business. Besides 1 or 2 people, the Humanities section of 30 were full of students who didn't qualify for the other two. Herein lies what the problem is - lack of choice, lack of opportunities to explore and lack of awareness of the future for each subject. Subjects like Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Ecology to name a few are completely absent from the Indina curriculum and students are often clueless of the different career choices they have. As everyone knows, it's a doctor-engineer deal for most.

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