Why India is India? - The Education System....Contd from previous...

Also, if we look at the kind of education we provide and pat our back on, we find that there is so many holes. Literacy rate in India is based on, if a person can sign his/her name or not.

I remember about studying and banging my head against wall to remember, how many kinds of trees/forests are there in India, how do you write "main kal mohan ke sath khel raha tha" in Sanskrit, what Bihari meant when he said, "Nahin paraga nahin madhur madhu nahin vikasa yahi kal ali kali hi saun bandhyau again kaun haval" etc. How many of us even remember these things today? Knowing these things is good, everyone should know their country, culture, tradidtions but getting evaluated on that may not turn out to be fair. This brings the question of usefullness of our education. What we study and spend most of our years on is not useful beyond a certain point, that is doing simple maths, percentages, simple science etc. Unless ofcourse you want to have a career in one specific field but then frankly, how many of us want to become a Hindi teacher?

Even when we come to institues like IITs and other engineering colleges, how many students actually end up doing work in fields they studied in?

I am not trying to keep on blaming as to what is being done wrongly. What I am trying to focus on, there is need for a change, a fundamental change in our system (not changing curiculum just to suit one political party's agenda) as to what is the long term aim of our education system. If we keep on patting outselves on the back for window-dresseing of literacy figures or comprehensiveness of our education without evaluating its usefullness or without complementing the education with opportunities to work, I dont think we are going anywhere in atleast one field.