Indian Education System

AKSHAT KUMAR JAIN
4 min readDec 15, 2020

Rant !!

Where does India stand on education development?

India produces more engineers than Switzerland’s total population yet India is lacking in research and development. According to the AGCR report, more than 83% of educated Indians are unemployable. And if we talk about Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, etc… they all did their further education in foreign.

To find out the root cause of what I am talking about, we have to go back a little bit in the past.

When Britishers were ruling us they were facing two major challenges.

  1. Communication with Indians
  2. Workers and clerks

Then Thomas Babington Macaulay gave us the English Education Act of 1835. This solves their purpose:

  1. They need people who can sit on a desk without any creativity.
  2. Communication with Indians in English.

English is not the most spoken language in India yet English has become a class rather than a language.

Russia, China, France are not obsessed with the English language as much as the people of India are.

People will taunt you if your English is not good and mark you as a bad communicator.

In today’s era, five-year-old IAS is also considered outdated but our education system is still running with some minute changes.

In our education system, we have a culture of mugging. Whoever mugs more gets more marks. See the topper who got 95, 96 marks in Sanskrit isn’t able to speak Sanskrit.

Today, people can learn and see things from google, we don’t have to mug up anything.

In government school students learn English for straight 12 years yet won’t be able to speak or write it properly but on the other hand, a child speaks English fluently because he got that environment.

(a+b)² = a²+ b² + 2ab;

Nobody knows its implementation in real life. Not even teachers who are teaching the subject.

But if you speak 3ab in place of 2ab, gotcha you found 4 people standing over there laughing at you.

Techniques used to teach kindergarten students are lakh times better than the techniques used in colleges.

Everyone is taught with the same syllabus, the same subjects without analyzing their capabilities. If you make Lion, snake, elephant, ant, fish in a queue and then ask them to climb a tree, they all will feel that they are useless throughout their life.

Dronacharya also taught Pandavas according to their skillset.

And our education system doesn’t have many choices. For people who chose arts, society thinks that they are useless. Every parent wants to make their kid engineer or doctor.

And from childhood, your training starts with mother, father, sister, brother, and relatives guiding you that if you didn’t get good marks or you don’t get a good job then your whole life is a waste. Then where is the option? Then You keep your Creativity on the side and getting a good job becomes your goal.

Now if those goals come true, then it’s all good. You make other people jealous. Brag about your job.

But if that goal breaks, then you go down the path of self-doubt, so more than the society, you will fall in your own eyes.

Dhirubhai Ambani, Virat Kohli, Narendra Modi, and Amir khan didn’t get trapped in our current education system. They learn from their own mistakes, books, from other life experiences.

If I take an interview with the CEO for every department of his/her company, it is not a guarantee that he\she will qualify for every department of his company. Maybe he won’t even qualify the criteria for some department education-wise.

So why don’t we talk about these skills that help him run a company? We spend more than 25% of our lives educating ourselves in the education system so that we can get a job and make other people’s dreams come true.

If India’s current education system is this good, then why do celebrities, politicians kids go out to study. Rather, it should be compulsory to make their kids study in the government college of the state from which they are elected. Then only the condition of government colleges of India will improve.

In 2020, for 368 Peon jobs, 1.5 lakh graduates, and more than 46 thousand postgraduate applicants.

People study 6–6 years to get any government job, and when asked why? The one reply you will mostly get that “ job security”. This means if you didn’t work still you won’t lose your job.

This thought of truancy only comes because our current education system won’t give us enough self-confidence that we go somewhere for work and don’t have the fear of losing our job.

If I talk about the next 5 years, I am not sure that they will be relevant or not in the future. A few years back cloud computing, SEO, machine learning jobs didn’t exist.

We need to be agile and open to learning new things. With applying creativity.

To sum up I hope the new education system will make India great again.

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