Myths Of The Indian Education System.

We Indian are very conscious about the state we belong to or the religion , but today I want  you to meet an angel who treat us equally without considering our age ,gender, state or religion. It's makes you equally less intelligent ,less confident, and less creative .Yes my dear friends I am talking about the  "The Great Indian Education System"

Had you ever asked a simple question to yourself that:

                          What is the purpose of education ?

I know most of you didn't ,but suddenly one person did and the answer changed the whole education system in which I and you both grown up.
For understanding this we have to look for the origin of our "education system".

ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

We have to go back into the late 18's (1800) When the industrialization is in peek  in England. And the east India company had just started their business in India. 

That time the Britishers are facing a huge problem of COMMUNICATION,and to overcome that they send a British historian and Whig politician to India,To understand and resolve the problem.

 

The name is "THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY", And Mr. Macaulay did the same what he told to he gone through our old education system which is  mostly in Sanskrit or Arabic, and the most interesting thing is that he didn't know any of these languages. but then also he managed to understand our education system and found out that this education system is not good. So, he made an report and published on February 1835, that was named as Minute on Indian Education .

On that report Macaulay urged Lord William Bentinck, the Governor-General to reform secondary education on utilitarian lines to deliver "useful learning" . a phrase that to Macaulay was synonymous with Western culture. There was no tradition of secondary education in vernacular languages; the institutions then supported by the East India Company taught either in Sanskrit or Persian. Hence, he argued, "We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language." Macaulay argued that Sanskrit and Persian were no more accessible than English to the speakers of the Indian vernacular languages and existing Sanskrit and Persian texts were of little use for 'useful learning'.

Remember the Question i asked at the starting. "What is the purpose of education ?" Macaulay find a purpose or should I say he believed that the education system must have a purpose. Now a days you and I can say that We are learning to grow our knowledge But what Macaulay believed that education must have a purpose and some how he convinced the government on his point and then came the :
                                    "ENGLISH EDUCATION ACT OF 1835"
this education system is basically made to bridge the gap within Indians with the  Britishers and that took me to the first myth of the education system .

THE ALL MIGHTY ENGLISH 

As the Britishers want Clark for their offices who just sit on a bench do as they told without any questions asked. sounds families with most of our's daily job. so , the English is primary subject for the student to under stand the orders and do as they told. and after 70 year of independence still we have the same culture in our schools. 

In the school they treated the English language  as a art you have to master and if you are not then you know the rest. Look I am not against the English language but I think English is not an art instead it was a tool to communicate that's it and that brings back me to the syllabus of our education system. Just think carefully, what all are the major subjects : 

• MATH
• SCIENCE  
• ENGLISH

And you know why is that so, because back in 18's  as they need Clark they also need workers for their industry's or what we now call them "ENGINEERS' . 

But what about creativity. Is creativity important ?

As study's told that most of the achievers are great creative thinkers they are mostly innovators not followers. By saying that Don't think that i'm saying that there are no achievers from India. We have Nobel laureate, spots achievers, great businessman's but they are not because of the education system.

This bring me to the second myth of the education system, To became an creative personality you need to know how to fail.

DISCIPLINE  NEEDS  PUNISHMENT

Yes, you get it right just think what is the greatest quality of any innovator, They all know that failing is a part of success.But in Indian education system failing is punishable. Means you can't fail in any thing  if you do you will be punished and punishment is something that every one is afraid of  and when you afraid of something you want to avoid that.

And let me ask you a simple question  HOW WILL YOU AVOID MISTAKE ?
By memorizing the exact text from books with zero understanding because if you try to understand things and then try to explain them their is a strong possibility of mistakes and you always try to avoid mistakes and that is the truth of our education system.

Let us bring all that together, so the purpose of  the education system is to  force us to learn subjects from the syllabus that has made to create clerks and workers for the English man's by memorizing  everything without understanding anything.

Now you tell me do you like your children's to grow up with the same purpose or you want to change  this ?