URGENT ACTION TO IMPROVE "INDIA EDUCATION SYSTEM"

I totally agree with Mr Ranbir Sinha .. medal winner or no but teachers of this genre do not even acknowledge that what they teach and the manner they impart knowledge is flawed. When someone doesn't even want to acknowledge flaw then their very essence of being teacher is lost. For most, scoring is ultimate and whether or not the student has learnt anything is secondary. The more their students score the more they become famous. The advent of private tutorials with big promises has only ignited this aspect. Earlier anyone scoring above 70% was considered as good. Now scoring anything less than 9.0 CGPA is looked at with suspicion. Our generation never missed vacation. Whether its about running across mango orchard, climbing trees, or swimming .. we never missed anything. Now if we look at our children they are more into room activities .. yes there are summer camps but the price parents need to pay for such things doesn't augur well for anyone. Imagine, activities which should come natural has to be bought and that too for limited period of time and with limited freedom. New generation will never understand the pain and agony we felt when our kite got caught in electric poles or trees, the pain of losing marbles to friends, the occasional arm fractures and cuts and bruises .... Its so mechanical now. Teachers or the so called teachers never understand what a child needs. A child spends the prime time of his day in school and this leaves a big impact on their mindset. It can either break or build confidence. Teachers do not hesitate to humiliate students in front of others. They just don't understand that their action is creating another barrier. A barrier which will be difficult to break and may be the starting point of creating another unacceptable character of the future. This shows that the teacher is not educated. Education is not about how many medals one wins, but whether or not he / she is capable of igniting the same passion and imagination in everyone. Every society has its own ups and downs and without the measure of deceit, honesty cannot be measured as well. Its not only the teachers who are to be blamed for the pathetic situation we are in now. Parents are equally responsible. More than the students, its the competition amongst parents which is unnerving. more  

Subject knowledge and teaching skills started absence from those got qualified since 2000 while those possess Skill and knowledge score about 30 % and this is the very reason beside the prime cause of privatization of Education without requisite Regulations . Secondly , the issue of very liberal Reservation system even in Teaching Profession that scored considerable percentage besides the generally penetrated malpractices in getting Qualified & Marks also stands as a sufficient cause . Earlier Guide Books ; later Bits questions ; now , Net teachings which becoming easy and very easy . more  

If we teach only what is useful along with practical examples and applications, students would be interested. We teach a lot of boring and useless things in schools and colleges. We need to get the best people from industries, research institutes, academia and military to design practical courses. Take several million best graduates, train them in such courses and make them teachers in public schools/colleges. I have seen so many teachers do not know where to use mathematics that they are teaching. I asked a "Medal winner" teacher of 10th grade "YOu are teaching matrices, where do you use Matrix? He replied "Oh, we do not teach applications, we just teach them solving problems". I said "What problems?" He said, "problems given in the book." Recently, he got an award and was promoted to be mandal school inspector. We must change the textbooks and train the teachers, lest India gets 500 million bookworms with paper certificates and only a few to do the real work. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06-18/news/40049243_1_engineers-iit-bombay-batch-size http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703515504576142092863219826 more  

Well said Mr Darshan. 1. Teaching job in school is non-lucrative. In most school male teachers are hard to come by. Reason to run a family you need decent salary. Salaries in most schools (except a few) is pathetic. 2. Teaching in school thus becomes a female oriented job as they are not considered the sole bread earners. 3. When teaching becomes ( for most) just another tool for earning the passion goes out. For teachers who just spend few hours in school are either bored to death or just go through the motion. 4. Most of the female teachers ( i'll put the figure at 75%) are not even aware of what they are teaching. Teachers hired for dance are guiding students for computer science, teachers hired for math are teaching hindi .... 5. When the teacher's retiring room becomes a gossip center for most then teachers who are remotely connected to a particular student make up their mind against the hapless child because their colleague thought so. 6. Before a teacher enters a class they carry grudge that they have to teach a certain student or group of students lesson because he / she or they didn't listen to her. 7. Tutorials pay more and hence some of these ( not all) teachers earn it from outside. Not everyone could even match the caliber required by these professional tutorials. Most of the male teachers who were at point of life were happy with school life are no more interested to serve in school ... Underpaid ... intra-politics ... lack of career developments. I am one of those examples. I am the sole earning member of my family and i have no regret in saying that i left school life for good. In a country, where a paan wala earns more than a teachers (who are considered to be pillars of society) then its better to teach in private, create talent and live a decent life. more