Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Present scenario of Education!

Today’s education system has lost it’s luster & relevance because of the western influence. It has succeeded in developing within us a hatred towards our own tradition and culture & in making us look at the western way of life with respect & admiration.

       Our country today is in the throes of a moral and cultural crisis & we can say that our education has failed to create a decent society.

       There is a crisis of character, moral decay & breakdown of traditional discipline.

       Quick acquisition of position & wealth by whatever means, fair or foul; good / bad has been the soul motive of the products of such a defective system of education.

       We  can see the way organized crime, financial frauds & terrorists violence (are being headed) by some of the best minds endowed with the best of educational & technical attainments.
       Look at the way even the members of the learned professions indulge in scandalous unethical ways of making money obligations & social responsibilities.
       Merit has been consistently ignored in academic set up.
       Ugly symptoms are seen everywhere.
       Today’s education gives importance to the total marks, merit positions, awards & such thing. The education system has changed into the examination system & now it is becoming an information system; pushing back the value system that the earlier system used to emphasize.

This is the outer scenario, but what about the student?
       Students are obliged to rely on private tutors.
       They require depending so much upon their memory that they have no chance to cultivate their imagination & thinking power.
       They resort to socially destructive and personally devastating ways of coping this stress as evident by increased rate of crime, alcoholism, drug addiction, suicides, accidents, self-harm, running away from home, depression, low self-esteem etc..
           
Ultimately what this mean is that there is a general decline in the quality of life and total absence of moral creativity, which could raise a great voice and summon us to the finest ideals of our ancient tradition.
           
A UNESCO report of Education for the 21st century entitled ‘Learning : The Treasure Within’  also pleads for an education which is rooted to culture and committed to progress.


Indian heritage, culture & values need to be thoroughly studied, analyzed & incorporated comprehensively in the education system.