What makes you Educated in India?

India is a very diverse country in every aspect but we don’t see much diversification in career opportunities for the youngsters. The Modern Indian Education System was introduced by Sir Thomas Babinton Macaulay, he is also known as the Father of Modern Indian Education System. Macaulay developed such a system that would be beneficiary only to the East India Company, as the sole emphasis on English and Mathematics – the only reason behind higher Mathematical abilities and English proficiency in Indians – which in returns supply copious Clerks and Babus to aid the growing Colonial Empire.

K. Gandhi, father of Nation was always an eminent supporter of education based on handicrafts which would’ve enable the economically backward Indian populace to renovate the Cultural heritage of handicraft, in return poverty the biggest problem of independent India would also be taken care of, as Indian handicrafts are always in high demands. Western education also have its merits but Indian subcontinent had different problems at that time which were not be resolved by Western Education.

Mahatma Gandhi’s prospects were not eccentric in today’s India there are Education Institutes called Industrial Training Institutes aka ITI which provides Industrial Training to the youth which make them handy to work in Industries and are very popular among economically backward students who cannot afford to pay for the Engineering and others such courses.

After decades of Independence from colonial era, students getting out of the schools can’t see much prospects of what he/she could do, they had lost all the senses of creative works in the Profound Temples of Education, which has made them merely a hard drive to store data on and on without processing it and flush the memory afterward exams. They are literally taught to cram everything to get high scores, not only in schools even in Colleges student follows this basic instinct which they have mastered till now. Maybe that’s why India accounts for the largest number of Educated Unemployed youths. Corporates need to train the Graduate recruits for one whole year which reflects how the study curriculums are fabricating inefficient Graduates.

Condensing the conclusions made by the professionals who have worked around the globe, Students from the East – India, and China – are very hard working and determined but they often lack creativity. A similar remark was made by the Apple’s co-founder that Indians don’t have the creativity for which he was severely criticised but later in the article, we will find out why?

Now the question arises, where the inefficiencies are?
The answer to this lies in another question for us – how many people do we know who wants to be a school teacher?
Probably few and most probably none. Since nobody wants to be a school teacher then where these teachers are coming from surely, they are eligible no doubt but, are they reliable enough to cater our children and nourish them creatively?

Is following the prescribed curriculum enough?

Have we ever asked this question to our self, What is being done so far in our schools is to narrate the books again and again until the exams are closer afterwards nobody care what they have studied and when students after passing the exam proceeds to the higher classes are haunted by those very same basic concepts which they had only crammed till exams which are now faded away. So to cope up with the abundant syllabuses they again cram up the books till exams and they are circumscribed in the process of cramming, which would not have been done if they had a good teacher to guide them, the reason why they didn’t had the good teacher cause, the teachers also didn’t had any interest in teaching – in country with very few employment opportunities they have conquered one and now they don’t need to care cause their job is done this is what they have been taught in their schools – find a decent job and stick to it.
So now who to blame?
Most obvious question.
Cause we’ve been trained not to accept but to blame. Here’s where creativity is brutally murdered, there is no one to blame, we are responsible for not viewing the world with different perspectives other than the one in which we were raised – the time is changing – maybe that’s why we criticize more than to figure out the problems, cause earlier we didn’t had so much resources to resolve the problems as we’ve today. There is a need of change and we are observing remarkable changes in schooling of metro cities but the great concerns lies for schools in villages where most of the Indian population live, we should need referendums to renovate the Culture not the System.

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