Recently as I was flipping through the newspaper, when my eyes suddenly fell on an article that successfully brought a grin on my otherwise sleepy face :-)
The article was regarding the decision taken by Mr. Khole (vice-chancellor of Mumbai University) to introduce more of practicals for engineering students rather than mere theory. The decision was taken after recieving severe criticisms from the India Inc regarding the quality of education offered to the students. Ha Ha Ha...I laughed after reading the article.
I had proposed this idea (although only to my friends) of packaging more of practical lessons than theories in our syllabus. But everyone passed it off as my bahana for being terrible at academics. Let them say so, I still stick to my words.
Come on yaar, lets figure it out. Just go into younger days flashback, remember how you would run from one place to another for different sorts of tutitions, classes, school and blah,blah. Bloody the child never gets any freedom to live his/her life the way they want. You are judged by this idiotic, stone age society on the basis of your marks and not for your individuality. But tell me how far does these freaky lessons get implemented in day to day life? Do these lessons really help them face this big, bad world. Do we practice ethical principles that are thought to us in our Value Education lectures? Nah! Ethics and moral values die the moment a kid copies from his friends paper just to get good scores.
Kids just by-heart everything and puke it out in the answer paper. Teachers too just skim through the paper rather than checking it thoroughly. Handwritting is given more of importance than your content. You write rubbish extending to 8-9 pages each and get good marks than writting precise and good content in mere 1-2 pages. Jitne pages, uthne marks is the order of the day here. But does that help? Till date people cant even draft a request, leave or resignation letters. Why? well coz as a kid they had only written what they had read. Not even a spelling or a prepositions here & there. Everything is perfect...perfect like a photocopy of the original format. But do these marks really value? Yes, agreed there was a time when industry would look at your marks than your talent. But now Indian Inc has realised the necessity to tap the young talents in our country.
Indian Education needs to revamp itself and provide more of practical lessons for its students. Till then let's watch out for Mr. Khole's PoA (Plan of Action).
Amen!
