YEAR 2 | ISSUE 1 | JANUARY, 2013
The meaning of education has changed a lot in the recent times. Not only has the meaning changed but also the purpose of education that has got scattered. In today’s world, education is directly linked with marks and scores. Your score indicates how educated you are! The more score you have the more you are educated, the more you are intelligent & the more you have a better knowledge of the world you have. Getting good marks and admission in a good institution is the benchmark of good education. What a crap! Sometimes I wonder, what has happened to the minds of the people? Do they have some psychiatric problem? Education should be a holistic knowledge of everything meaningful. It should be about how to live, how to behave, how to react, how to participate, how to initiate, how to perform and how to respect. Education is complete package of the way you live. It’s an umbrella term which includes social, ethical and moral education too. Learning something new every day subsumes education. Without learning anything we should not boast ourselves as knowledgeable ones.
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dramatically changed. As has been said earlier, education system has lost its value. Firstly, India’s education system is a filtering system that conducts an entrance exam with the aim of selecting only 2-3 % of students for the best colleges of the country; but what about the rest of the 96-97 % crowd? For a holistic development, the full 100% have to come together and work efficiently for the betterment. Secondly, our education system lays emphasis on cramming not on learning. Teachers should be taught to teach the students how to relate things to how inventions of past are useful for us in the present and the future or how this topic is going to help us in our practical life. But the main concern of today’s teachers is to complete syllabus or to just tell the students what is important in helping them secure better marks for their exams. I know it’s very easy to blame others but somewhere and somehow we are also responsible for this. Parental pressure & pressure from society, competition from classmates, goals to have a studious image in public- all these things take us down and hinder our country’s development.
We have to start with our selves and feel that firstly we have to change our own mindset towards our goals and achievements i.e. we have to follow our heart and do things which are good for us and our country too. We have to be confident for what we are going to do. After all we are the future for our country and only we have to serve it, no one India, our motherland, is a country which is developing fast. from outside is going to do things for us. If we have faith, we The young mass in this country are the real torch bearers of can move mountains; but if we have doubts then we create our growth and development. For the outsiders, our youth mountains for ourselves. We just have to concentrate on our contribute a lot to this growth; we have a huge youth resource goals. We just have to follow the channel of our heart - what which leads our country towards development. Having a we want to do for ourselves, because if we do things which youth is, however, not important , having an educated youth make us delighted then those things are definitely going to is important. But what is this youth doing ?? Just spending serve for our country as well. At last I would like to conclude their time on Facebook or Twitter, talking every time about that success is not given, it is earned. So we have to focus on making money or how to get a good job abroad; killing their our ideas in the right fashion and have to create the right precious time and so on. This time if used can take INDIA to a track. very high positing making India into a super power. By: Raman Thukral, B.Tech, Batch 7 , 1st year Hence, for the educated youth, we should have quality education. But in our country education norms have Gaining knowledge does not have anything to do with scoring good marks. Similarly scoring of good marks has no connection with education. It only depends on how you have prepared for that subject and how you are mentally prepared for that damn test.