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Education today and tomorrow
I was going through various food blogs that I found this very interesting site through raniraja. Thanks raniraja.
During my schooling, I used to enjoy all cultural activities that I participated in. I enjoyed my music and crafts classes as much as I enjoyed Mathematics or talking of abstract things in Physics. But, now what do I remember of "Differential Calculus" and how am I using it in my day-to-day life???
As I delve deeper into this, what do I see the next generation moving towards - a state where everybody wants to be "known" or make quick money. So, a B.E or an M.B.A is the in-thing in India - in fact a B.E and an MBA. Why does an engineer not want to do engineering and manage business??? Fresh college graduates turn into fresh MBAs. If everybody wants to manage whom will they manage???
The other disaster is the standardization and globalization of education - it feels so sad to know that I too am a factory product! I have to make extra efforts to go back to my roots from which I was withdrawn - for instance, I need to make extra efforts to understand classical Tamil poetry although I can gather the emotions from them pretty much! I need to look at a Sanskrit English dictionary for enhancing my Sanskrit when resources were so abundantly available that I could have conversed in Sanskrit!!!
Gives me more reasons to cry! Why did my ancestors take up Government jobs? Why did they leave their villages and their original professions? Now, I long for the greenery of my native place, the temple, its kuLam and our ancestral house! Of what use is a string of degrees, if it is not helping a person make crucial life decisions!
If education should do anything, it should open one's mind - it should make one creative - assimilate and absorb and help him act, not store, spit in an exam and discard!
The ideas present in this paper are universal - we need not take it as something relevant only for India. This is something that is needed all over the world. We need to learn life skills - not buy a certificate!
Education today and tomorrow
I was going through various food blogs that I found this very interesting site through raniraja. Thanks raniraja.
During my schooling, I used to enjoy all cultural activities that I participated in. I enjoyed my music and crafts classes as much as I enjoyed Mathematics or talking of abstract things in Physics. But, now what do I remember of "Differential Calculus" and how am I using it in my day-to-day life???
As I delve deeper into this, what do I see the next generation moving towards - a state where everybody wants to be "known" or make quick money. So, a B.E or an M.B.A is the in-thing in India - in fact a B.E and an MBA. Why does an engineer not want to do engineering and manage business??? Fresh college graduates turn into fresh MBAs. If everybody wants to manage whom will they manage???
The other disaster is the standardization and globalization of education - it feels so sad to know that I too am a factory product! I have to make extra efforts to go back to my roots from which I was withdrawn - for instance, I need to make extra efforts to understand classical Tamil poetry although I can gather the emotions from them pretty much! I need to look at a Sanskrit English dictionary for enhancing my Sanskrit when resources were so abundantly available that I could have conversed in Sanskrit!!!
Gives me more reasons to cry! Why did my ancestors take up Government jobs? Why did they leave their villages and their original professions? Now, I long for the greenery of my native place, the temple, its kuLam and our ancestral house! Of what use is a string of degrees, if it is not helping a person make crucial life decisions!
If education should do anything, it should open one's mind - it should make one creative - assimilate and absorb and help him act, not store, spit in an exam and discard!
The ideas present in this paper are universal - we need not take it as something relevant only for India. This is something that is needed all over the world. We need to learn life skills - not buy a certificate!
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