The British system of education has been running from the 18th century in which Lord Macaulay had a plan to rule over India so he ended the ongoing education system that created the sense of love, harmony,
fraternity and patriotism in the mind of every citizen so Lord started a new education system and introduced new education that proved against Indian ancient education. This Lord education system was only to produce clerk for the services of Britishers who ruled over country.
Even today, after 70 years of independence, the education system has not changed much. Though the
government machinery of India is aware of this education system but it does not want to improve itself and the children in schools are being taught about the same two hundred years of old education. Although today's life has changed but India's education system has not changed so far, due to which India still remains a under developed country.
In the current education system, 8-10 years old children are being taught many subjects like social, history, English, accounting, Hindi, regional language, geography, drawing, science etc from the first class to the fifth grade.
It is interesting that this system, of putting knowledge of all subjects in the minds of the students in the fifth class, has closed them in their houses to cram books in a way that no one can complete his schooling work from 6am to 7pm. The children have to attend tuitions as soon as they come back from school to complete syllabus.
That is why; many students are wearing glasses because cramming books and pressure to get highest marks is making their eyesight weak. The parental and peer pressure to excel in academics, to become future doctors and engineers, leaves little scope for overall development of children and has obscured their thinking power.
The lack of vocational training and practical knowledge make it difficult for toppers to adjust in society when they pass out. On the contrary, the average students have an edge over them in real life.
The little children are unnecessarily burdened with so many subjects which leaves little time for them to play and contribute to society till the age of 17. But As soon as the students pass school and join college the number of subjects decrease.
In present era, the children have access to the Internet. They can immediately Google whatever questions or answers they have to find. Therefore, the infiltration of different subjects in the minds of school children has to stop.
The students should be taught to love nation, play sports, live harmoniously in society, respect elders and stop bribery by dishonest officers in government department and how to catch them. They should also be taught to raise voice against adulteration of food items, greedy doctors indulging in unethical practices and the police not doing its duty properly.
The students should be brought as responsible citizens who assist tax authorities about income of their neighbor earned through wrongful means. They should be educated to bring to notice of administration the pot holes are on the broken public roads and about legal remedies available to claim their rights.
The students should be given moral education to check rising incidents of crime in the society. The quality and standard of education should be raised so that the children need not go abroad to study.
Besides, the children should be taught the true meaning of religion and cautioned against blindly following self proclaimed God mans.
By following the above approach we can bring peace and prosperity in our country and create a sense of love and harmony among each other.
Lord Macaulay introduced the education system that is still followed in our country is not for the benefit of native citizen. It was implemented to eliminate overall growth of students. Therefore, unless we provide basic education to our children as per the present education system till 12th class, there will be not awareness in our nation. It is possible only when we finish the Macaulay education system from India.
-Shri Paul Sharma
Email sharmashripaul@gmail.com
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