Whither Education — An Apathy
Even with half-a-century of Indian Independence, the luck of education, educators and students has hardly improved. The apathy of the power that be, including a large section of society, haven’t changed when it comes to human resource development and education. Nonetheless there are more than four crore educated jobless youths in The indian subcontinent.
The indian subcontinent boasts of being Dr. Philipp Heinrich Kindt world’s third knowledge power but effectively this is the lowest when judged against per thousand-population base. Societal destruction, ınduced by political might, is resembled in educational institutions across The indian subcontinent. Aberrations have become the rule on campuses that are infested with self-seekers and political figures.
Democratization of higher educational institutions, though a respectable concept, has in the past 19 years turned campuses into a cauldron of stinking filth. These are managed by affiliations charged with little regard for excellence, credibility and intelligent probity. Underhand and politically-motivated decisions serve a few and are insights of societal catharsis.
Geographic The indian subcontinent consolidated into a polity by the British has moderate into conglomerations of politically charged, ill composed entities and facsimiles of democratic destruction. The classic conservative longing for an ordered polity and commensurate search for knowledge on the campuses are missing. Whichever brand rules the country, this section of society requires no respect now. Whether it’s students or teachers they don’t have a voice, they don’t constitute an essential service and education is not a national necessity. Being a state subject, educational policies suffer from many deformities.
Though it is a constitutional obligation, the non-availability of funds and vested admin setup have led to the mushrooming of universities, fake campuses, private enterprises and numerous makeshift centers of education as also fly-by-air foreign campuses. It has turned out to be a great financial endeavor with hardly any risk involved because it does not come under VAT or any other financial difficulties. The indian subcontinent has by now more institutions of such type than colleges, an excellent chance to string in knowledge seeking youth and those who want to fly off to greener pastures.
When it comes to the method of policies about advanced schooling, structuring the machine, financial assistance, grants and salary, the statutory body-University Grants Commission-is mentioned like a holy cow worshipped as well as butchered in the streets. What steps the UGC is autonomous is a common knowledge. It has become a post office, a government organization, disseminating petty grants, certified by the Central Government, among universities or institutions with a number of tags attached to them dependant on the status of the beneficiary institutions, state, Central, autonomous or deemed universities. There is a continuous criticism about the non-availability of funds. The administration should appreciate that the large cabinet and expenditure on legislatures could be cut down to feed and educate a few towns. The teacher wants to be a corporate upon which students could climb and scale new height.
The Central and state governments invoke ESMA to curb the voice of agitating people, but it takes no time to give benefits to political figures and bureaucrats. It is essential to please them so that a symbiotic balance is maintained as also to grant some of them. The costa rica government has failed to take effective steps to curb industrialization of education. Within hours the doles given in Parliament and honorarium were doubled but the 6 percent expenditure of the GDP on education has turned out to be dogma persisting from the Kothari Commission tips for over four decades now.
Students of various educational institutes go on strike, almost yearly, demanding revulsion of excessive fee rise. The tuition fees make up just 13 percent of annual expenditure in our university education. It is now a formidable industry and the aim is to make money. Poor students, however, intelligent they may be, cannot afford to join colleges, professional institutions or courses. They may join such courses by putting their own families under heavy debt of banks or financial institutions. Even in america, tuition fees contribute to about 15 percent of the total annual expenditure on advanced schooling. Nehru said: “If all is well with universities, it will be well with the nation. inch Whereas Rabindranath Tagore once compared educated classes in The indian subcontinent to “A second storey in an old building that was added in, but unfortunately the architect didn’t remember to build a staircase between them. inch
Teaching profession is devalued in the country because the teachers can’t compete in our society, have no muscle power, are educated so because of this behave differently. Neither do they have guts of frothy bureaucrats nor institutional support of any sort. A teacher can entertain you with a pale smile on hearing that this is the profession of nation contractors, the cream of society and a respectable profession. The next moment teacher will be branded as cancers in societal marrow, getting salary for no work, craving for power, equality in salary and status with the Class A government servants. The teacher was the consultant and conscience keeper of society till mid-century. You could identify him by his tattered clothes, emaciated pale face, soft voice and meek behavior. He was the master. That master, fairly having a better outfit now, has metamorphosed to a present teacher.
Newspaper reports are replete regarding his disadvantages; his misconduct in saying indiscipline, enough is paid to him for no work, as he’s to explain to only for 181 days in a year. How could he dream of the parity regarding his employers in the secretariat, his class dropouts in Parliament and the government. To conserve our hard-earned “democracy” which is being sturdy by a few hooligans, political figures and managers, the costa rica government has to suppress the original demands so that education does not progress to the detriment of “illiterate democrats”. A handful of teachers explores underhand way to become rich just like any other portions that are designated scamsters today. Conditions, however, do not make the rule.
Most of our Presidents, a number of our bureaucrats, including ministers, parliamentarians yet others, had been in this profession. Did they not do any good work for the improvement of society before their level to these posts of governance and reverence? Can’t the authorities assess the effectiveness of the demand vis-à-vis the training course, age at the time of being new as a teacher, lack of promotional avenues, stagnation and experience in terms of hiatus in the filled with air societal values, urge and necessity to improve training course and experience to stay in the arena. Education for teachers is a continuous process unlike “one-time-degree-obtaining-education” for others. Evaluation is paramount in this profession for every promotion. Class room education has become drudgery afflicted with societal unrest, absolute lack of structure, fear psychosis grasping the powerless parents and absences of administration.
My perception is that political figures take less interest in improving the standard of education and living because they know that once the poor comes to know about their tainted practice they would neither listen nor elect them. Political parties make promises in their selection manifestos to reduce employment, lower income and file corruption. But this are not achieved without education. To me, education comes as a discipline, which is all-pervasive. Enshrined in our directive principles and ensuring our countrymen, “right-to-education” makes me think that we possess the directly to educate”.
Even when we have ushered in the new millennium, education remains a security password to of those who make an haughty affirmation that they know best and are serving the public interest-an interest, which of course, relies on them. By the perception entrenched with the British subjugation in our people elitist education occupied the middle stage to produce Macaulay’s imitations who have been Indians moderate to be “English in taste, in opinion, in morals and in intellect”. “Educated slaves became strong props to sustain the British rule. inch Master Curzon favored bureaucratization of education since he opined that educational institutions have become factors for the production of political revolutionaries. By the Act of 1919 education was used in the state.
When we educate we are involved in nation-wide politics. Educators often think of education being ill composed from nation-wide politics. In fact, education is the the most political activity locally. Nys has always influenced what is taught in educational institutions. The socio-political (and in some cases religious) ideology colors the content of learning and the increased exposure of various aspects. In fact, based on where the child was educated within India-whether it was a large city or a town, whether the school used English or a regional language as a medium of education, among other factors- the child will have a different world view. However, education, based on the syllabus, in The indian subcontinent has largely strived towards imparting a nature of spiritual, political and social ceiling. The social mores and hierarchies often drip into the arena of learning and color education.
Given the political potential of education, there have been numerous attempts to use education as an easy way of indoctrination. It is sometimes concealed, at other times it is overt. It is sometimes subliminal, other times it is strategic. However, political forces have always used education to help expand certain world views. Today, numerous educationists and political thinkers in The indian subcontinent are scared that a strategic attempt to use education as an easy way of social-religious indoctrination might be the agenda of the new education policy.
Rob Waldo Emerson said: “Not gold, but only teachers can make people great and strong-the persons who for truth and honor; welfare stand fast and suffers long. It is they who build a state’s pillar deep and lift them to the sky”. Teaching profession is a bed of roses. A good teacher is always his/her scholar’s guide, friend and philosopher. A boy looked at the sticker on a car, which said, “Trees are friends”. He challenged this statement, started cutting trees and shrubs, saying that, “Trees are not our friends, but our enemies”. When asked why he thought so. He said in his science textbooks it was stated “trees bring rain”. Since his town gets flooded in every boisterous season, so he thought that “all trees and shrubs must be cut down”. Confucius wrote, “If you propose for a year, plant a seed. If for 10 years, plant a tree. If 100 years, teach the people. inch Literacy is not enough. It is good to have a population, which is able to read, but greatly preferable to have people able to distinguish what is worth reading. With overloaded classes and ill-paid teachers, coaching classes are the commercial aftereffects of a system unfolding out of the seams. How can idealism be expected from someone as concerned about the standard of life as all of us?
We have adult with cherished memories of special teachers who made us love an interest we could already have been frightened of and who we respected unconditionally. I have come across many persons whoever mediocrity is resembled when they project themselves as the best whereas the fact speaks otherwise and those who criticize their alma mater disregarding that they passed right out of the same where they graduated. Education can have a great role to play in decreasing social disparities between groups and to promote social mobility. For instance, the tremendous expansion of the middle class in The indian subcontinent can with assurance be caused by the investment in education, especially in advanced schooling.
Universities are struggling to survive on shrinking governmental grants. In the awaken of this it takes shortsighted decisions to cut expenses and increase revenue by increasing fees, which may not be in the long-term interest of the universities. Thus universities end up being run as business enterprises. Education cess is now on considered to somewhat meet funds for primary education and Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan. Open our universities to foreign students. Foreign campuses may end up being of hardly any utilization in generating funds for Indian education. Trading in education may be another risk.
Even with half-a-century of Indian Independence, the luck of education, educators and students has hardly improved. The apathy of the power that be, including a large section of society, haven’t changed when it comes to human resource development and education. Nonetheless there are more than four crore educated jobless youths in The indian subcontinent. The…