Where the our Education System goes wrong

 If you have seen UGC's announcement of holding the final year exams by September this year while the whole world is suffering from a pandemic, it should have surprised you. If not, then this is not for you.

I'm not an university student and nothing will happen to me if the universities take their final exams in the middle of a pandemic. All of us agree to the point that our education system doesn't make any sense anymore but nobody knows the exact problem. Even if they do, they don't know the solution. Well. neither do I; I'm just an angry teen trying to let out my angst.

Our education system has the ratio of 1:50, i.e, 1 teacher per 50 students. Nobody can pay much attention to each and every student in that way. i don't know when you people where enrolled in school, but I was enrolled in my current school at the age of 3 and the kindergarten school at the age 2. It is a kind of suffering for many of us. I'm suffering for almost 12 years now. I say suffering because I never was good at studies and maybe never will be. I was enrolled into a system which demanded me to to respect the way my contemporaries were. Quite a lot of Indian know a number of programming languages but still do not get a job because of their communication skill. Nothing is done to improve their personalities. How 'good' you've become is judged how good you are at carrying out orders. We grow up from a mindset where it's better to work for someone than making people work for you so that you don't have to take risks. The facts where our education system goes wrong can be found by you guys if you google it; but, instead I would try to explain why it had gone wrong and I'm sure that I would be able to make you much more confused than you already were about the matter

Though I'm a criticiser of how the country was before the Raj, but, let me say our OWN education system that existed before the British came was far better, it was producing better products (more productive students). Thomas Babbington Macaulay was sent by the British to find out more about how to better colonise the country. He stated that they needed to create an education system which would be used to produce clerks and military personnel as they needed more people at that time who didn't use their creativity and were good at carrying out orders. The British also implemented this education system in their own country called the STEM ( science, technology, engineering and maths) system of education. But now through progress they have changed their education system and this STEM system is now almost obsolete.

Most of us are result-oriented. Not only in the case of education, but in other aspects of life as well, like,orthodox Indians think of sex as a taboo act, yet we love children and want newly wed couples to have kids as soon as possible. Now if we look at the surface of it, it might seem that allotting marks is the only way of knowing how a person is good at studies. Remember, our results are calculated by the TOTAL marks that we get in all the subjects; but, we must always remember that each and every child's mindset is not the same. One child might have the mindset of a person of science while another may have the mindset of liberal arts; and, if one has the mindset of an artistic person or he/she likes to think out of the box, the country is not the place for him/her.

Now, we are a population of almost 1.3 billion people and we are inching towards 100% literary program. There are actually two problems in this:

1. There will be more competition

2. We fail to understand that the base of the system is cracked and it is found that most of the people who fall under 'educated' category, can't actually read basic text in their own language.

For the first problem, for me the only solution is to reduce the population. How, people will decide but I would say not being a horny dick always. This way the population will reduce and maybe sexual harassment might become rare as well (it's just a mere assumption). For the second problem, I would have the solution that the faculty should be improved and the way of teaching should be changed. Most of our parents wants us to take up science generally and we ourselves seldom think about being a teacher than a researcher or working in a corporate company. Usually the profession of teaching is seen as the last hope of earning our bread.

Well, there is no use sulking about the education system where we have already entered willingly because we don't belong to the Tagore family where our parents would let us do home-schooling or let us refuse to run the rat-race. We have to study and do something from which we can earn our bread. But why did I wright this in the first place? I just want to say that marks are not THAT important as our teachers or parents might say because they're institutionalized. Marks does makes our life easy if we take up the generic professions, but, with the advent of the internet, you can go into so many professions that don't demand your marks but your skills and you will enjoy what you will do as well.