What
is Education? Education is a means of acquiring knowledge, skills, beliefs and
values. It helps a person to bring out his individuality and know the world.
But if we go to see the state of Education today in India, we see that it has
become a source of producing unemployed graduates. What is the reason behind this? It is so
because many educational institutions are just money-generating enterprise and
commercialized.
The real purpose of Education has disappeared somewhere due to the flourishing
coaching centres and tutorials. These coaching centres and tutorials curb the
creativity and originality of a child and instead indulge them into
rote-learning. Education has become marks oriented without any actual learning
happening on the part of the students. There is a mindless rat race to get good
marks. They do not understand the subject, instead, just focus on obtaining
marks. This is just making an endless number of puppets who have lost their
individuality and their power to think.
The
children nowadays miss their schools as they know that they can catch up in
their tutorial classes what they have missed in their classes. Parents send
their children for tuitions because they cannot help the students with their
homework. School should give homework which should be clear and
well-planned. A teacher should spend time in planning tasks which will be able
to enhance creativity, skills and confidence in an individual and not to take
tuitions.
Educators
should help the students in improving their thinking skills and making them
into strong individuals. After all these children are our future, the future of
our nation.
Bharti Rao
The Fabindia School.com