What's wrong with public education system?
What India needs is a good public education system which can produce citizens who think freely, show initiative and possess a questioning mind. If you consider all the riots that took place in the past, most or almost all of the participants of these riots were students from government schools. It's the kind of education that they get that makes them take to violence.
Someone said that government-funded education only succeed in giving birth to average citizen, while private sector institutions give birth to elites. One should indeed appreciate the government's efforts to make tax-funded elementary education free and accessible to all children as a right. The national goal is to rapidly expand quality education on an unprecedented scale and reach out to the remotest parts. But yet the government educational institution just can't match the private schools.
It is necessary for government to make its schools have a sound education system. There is an urgent need to improve the skills of teachers in public schools who are described as untrained as compared to their counterparts in private schools.
The public education system is undoubtedly below standard. The way public schools function gives one the idea that government works less efficiently as compared to private entities and even non-governmental organisations.
There is an urgent need to bolster the education infrastructure of government schools and this demands the active participation of local communities. It is obvious that the beneficiaries of public education system work harder to overcome their social disadvantages, compared with well-to-do counterparts in private institutions. The elite education is oriented more towards preserving the status quo, and emphasizes the following of orders, control and discipline. This is antithetical to the concepts of freedom of thought, challenge and inquiry that are the core goals of education. India's public education lacks adequate human resources and infrastructure, and it evidently needs supportive policies to achieve its potential. What it does not need is a sermon on things that it is not.
What India needs is a good public education system which can produce citizens who think freely, show initiative and possess a questioning mind. If you consider all the riots that took place in the past, most or almost all of the participants of these riots were students from government schools. It's the kind of education that they get that makes them take to violence.
Someone said that government-funded education only succeed in giving birth to average citizen, while private sector institutions give birth to elites. One should indeed appreciate the government's efforts to make tax-funded elementary education free and accessible to all children as a right. The national goal is to rapidly expand quality education on an unprecedented scale and reach out to the remotest parts. But yet the government educational institution just can't match the private schools.
It is necessary for government to make its schools have a sound education system. There is an urgent need to improve the skills of teachers in public schools who are described as untrained as compared to their counterparts in private schools.
The public education system is undoubtedly below standard. The way public schools function gives one the idea that government works less efficiently as compared to private entities and even non-governmental organisations.
There is an urgent need to bolster the education infrastructure of government schools and this demands the active participation of local communities. It is obvious that the beneficiaries of public education system work harder to overcome their social disadvantages, compared with well-to-do counterparts in private institutions. The elite education is oriented more towards preserving the status quo, and emphasizes the following of orders, control and discipline. This is antithetical to the concepts of freedom of thought, challenge and inquiry that are the core goals of education. India's public education lacks adequate human resources and infrastructure, and it evidently needs supportive policies to achieve its potential. What it does not need is a sermon on things that it is not.
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