Is it the system or YOU?
Hello again! After a nice (hate to call it nice) sleep I'm back with sum fresh energy and enthusiasm to face the ever so boring world.Have been wondering for a long time about what to begin (officially) with..A clever frnd gave me a topic and I thought why not!?! With a little variation to his/her idea lets begin discussing about what we expect and what we get from the education system in India...
Every child begins his schooling nurtured from the day 1 to pursue his father's dream.Agreed no child has the maturity of thought to decide his future.Its only with time and some critical study of their interests that they get to know what they want and what they dont.Let us assume by the time they reach 5th standard each one has developed a dislike to math or science or geography and
decide to pursue a career in which they would never have to study them irrespective of their fathers dream.Thats the first mistake they make . They feel when they dont understand sumthng , lets put it anotherway ,when they believe sumthng is not their cup of tea.. they dont put in the much needed effort to get the stuff into their head.They r contended with what they know.What i wanna know is, Where has that driving force gone??....How can one be so sure that when you end up as a geologist you wouldn't have to distinguish between a sine and a cosine curve.
Ok good GREAT infact they have atleast realised (one step forward)they wanna become a geologist and dint care to do math or sit at the science class.So as they step in to class 6 , they have gained an aversion to a few subjects , hate the teachers who teach the rest and love only the subject tht they think they love. As time goes they see that there are hardly any1 in their class(THEIR world) who is bent upon becoming a geologist.They faithfully conclude that their future is set coz they have no competiton AT ALL!Laziness breeds incompetency and they tend to lose interest in everything.Enter class 9 they know for sure tht they cannot become an engineer coz they haven't got the BASICS RIGHT nor a doctor coz biolgy is "yeuch"(just an example.Not tht they r the only courses)and they proudly proclaim to a better off companion that they haven't got the fundas.They dont even care because they believe their future isnt THAT afterall.And when they finally enter the ACTUAL world at the end of 12th REALITY hits them hard.They aren't tht good a geologist either.Now here comes a very important point.What if they aren't a good geologist?all they wanted was to become one.It would be GOOD if thts their state of mind but once they, anyone for that matter, see their dream to make it BIG shatter, very few take the uncertain pain to rebuild it , a few others accept reality... and a large number of people FINALLY repent for not taking education seriously.They begin to curse the education system for not giving what they wanted.What they don't realise is the system gave them everythng they might need(I'm not using want here) ...It was infact they ,who din't take what they wanted and what they might want.Who is to be blamed ,The people or The system??..Think about it..
Its but natural for a person to place the entire system at fault just because one they dint bother to gain much from it , two they have company in cursing.Their statement sumtimes is taken as the only description of the present scenario.well its wrong and people shud not be carried away by this statement.In my opinion there is nothing majorly wrong with the system.It gives u what u need and u take what u want.The problem comes when u fail to take what u want?You might me under the misconception tht in the long run u might not infact need even basic knowledge in math or science ... first thought it might seem true but what u fail to see is, what u want ur future to be is not what it always turns out to be..To be prepared for the worst is better than to curse the system when u DO face it...in much simpler words..If u r or even if u r not sure abt where ur interest lies,the present edn system helps u keep ur options open and gives u an added advantage... it lets u choose when ur mind is MORE mature.One MUST realise tht this system has also given a right spirit to study.. a clearly seen driving force ,COMPETITION (when i say tht i mean HEALTHY competition) .
Well moving on to sum bad aspects which I believe are few and a modified framwork cud in all possibility overcome these shortcomings... one thing that we all see is a person who is a doctor tops the civil service exam and becomes an administrator... an engineer passes out as an MBA graduate from the IIM and talks abt public relations and the like...dus it serve as an additional qualification ? NO,a doctor then ceases to be a doctor and an engineer forgets his field of work.All this comes down to one thing.. wastage of resources . The govt. spends so much time and money educating him and he overomes aspiring doctors and engineers(whose talents go waste now coz they cant become what they want to) to become one and finally ends up as a person totally different.
What I believe we now need is a larger framework tht identifies what a person is MORE interested (engineer ,doctor ,geologist, astronaut or even a politician) in after basic education and channelise his skills to get a worthier citizen.This can be done only when this cursing stops and ppl work for betterment and not impeachment.
Ok thts all I gotta say!Comments welcome... Good Luck!
Every child begins his schooling nurtured from the day 1 to pursue his father's dream.Agreed no child has the maturity of thought to decide his future.Its only with time and some critical study of their interests that they get to know what they want and what they dont.Let us assume by the time they reach 5th standard each one has developed a dislike to math or science or geography and
decide to pursue a career in which they would never have to study them irrespective of their fathers dream.Thats the first mistake they make . They feel when they dont understand sumthng , lets put it anotherway ,when they believe sumthng is not their cup of tea.. they dont put in the much needed effort to get the stuff into their head.They r contended with what they know.What i wanna know is, Where has that driving force gone??....How can one be so sure that when you end up as a geologist you wouldn't have to distinguish between a sine and a cosine curve.
Ok good GREAT infact they have atleast realised (one step forward)they wanna become a geologist and dint care to do math or sit at the science class.So as they step in to class 6 , they have gained an aversion to a few subjects , hate the teachers who teach the rest and love only the subject tht they think they love. As time goes they see that there are hardly any1 in their class(THEIR world) who is bent upon becoming a geologist.They faithfully conclude that their future is set coz they have no competiton AT ALL!Laziness breeds incompetency and they tend to lose interest in everything.Enter class 9 they know for sure tht they cannot become an engineer coz they haven't got the BASICS RIGHT nor a doctor coz biolgy is "yeuch"(just an example.Not tht they r the only courses)and they proudly proclaim to a better off companion that they haven't got the fundas.They dont even care because they believe their future isnt THAT afterall.And when they finally enter the ACTUAL world at the end of 12th REALITY hits them hard.They aren't tht good a geologist either.Now here comes a very important point.What if they aren't a good geologist?all they wanted was to become one.It would be GOOD if thts their state of mind but once they, anyone for that matter, see their dream to make it BIG shatter, very few take the uncertain pain to rebuild it , a few others accept reality... and a large number of people FINALLY repent for not taking education seriously.They begin to curse the education system for not giving what they wanted.What they don't realise is the system gave them everythng they might need(I'm not using want here) ...It was infact they ,who din't take what they wanted and what they might want.Who is to be blamed ,The people or The system??..Think about it..
Its but natural for a person to place the entire system at fault just because one they dint bother to gain much from it , two they have company in cursing.Their statement sumtimes is taken as the only description of the present scenario.well its wrong and people shud not be carried away by this statement.In my opinion there is nothing majorly wrong with the system.It gives u what u need and u take what u want.The problem comes when u fail to take what u want?You might me under the misconception tht in the long run u might not infact need even basic knowledge in math or science ... first thought it might seem true but what u fail to see is, what u want ur future to be is not what it always turns out to be..To be prepared for the worst is better than to curse the system when u DO face it...in much simpler words..If u r or even if u r not sure abt where ur interest lies,the present edn system helps u keep ur options open and gives u an added advantage... it lets u choose when ur mind is MORE mature.One MUST realise tht this system has also given a right spirit to study.. a clearly seen driving force ,COMPETITION (when i say tht i mean HEALTHY competition) .
Well moving on to sum bad aspects which I believe are few and a modified framwork cud in all possibility overcome these shortcomings... one thing that we all see is a person who is a doctor tops the civil service exam and becomes an administrator... an engineer passes out as an MBA graduate from the IIM and talks abt public relations and the like...dus it serve as an additional qualification ? NO,a doctor then ceases to be a doctor and an engineer forgets his field of work.All this comes down to one thing.. wastage of resources . The govt. spends so much time and money educating him and he overomes aspiring doctors and engineers(whose talents go waste now coz they cant become what they want to) to become one and finally ends up as a person totally different.
What I believe we now need is a larger framework tht identifies what a person is MORE interested (engineer ,doctor ,geologist, astronaut or even a politician) in after basic education and channelise his skills to get a worthier citizen.This can be done only when this cursing stops and ppl work for betterment and not impeachment.
Ok thts all I gotta say!Comments welcome... Good Luck!
posted by Poornaa Venkatesan at 3:43 AM
3 Comments:
Hmm...
Extremely thought-provoking post, coming as it does on the heels of VBK's (thevarunfactor.blogspot.com)
Check out another one of these "anti-system" rants at my friend Tsunami's blog: http://smalltsunami.blogspot.com
Interesting, most interesting...
TK
PS: You wanna consider writing fuller words, too many "urs" and stuff make readng VERY hard...
Very nice article and blog, Poornaa!
I used to often complain about the system, about how it forced me to learn stuff I won't need. But then I realised that a LOT of the unecessary (or so I thought) stuff actually WAS needed even in the things I liked doing.
I'll give you an example -- I never used to bother about Physics because I thought "Why the hell would I need to know about optics, rotatory motion and thermodynamics?". But today, when I work on 3ds max and want to make a glass table, I need to know its refractive index. For simulating water, I need to to set viscosity levels etc.
So in a way, you're right when you say -- "the system gave them everythng they might need" :)
Oh and like TK said, you should write in fuller words and have line breaks between paragraphs...
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