How Education system is evolving in India and the way Teachers are being created || Part-2 by Sai Venkatesh
While first post talks about the degradation that has happened over the last 10 years, I can see a decline (steep, and not gradual) over the last 40 years. One of the reasons, that of the salaries of the teacher is mentioned in this post, but there are quite a few others, most of which are actually political. Please note that I am not siding with any party, or speaking against any party, but govt. as a team together with all the parties put together.
I am sure, you would have read Lord MacCaulay's post that did circles a few days back on Facebook. It happened in 1833, where he replaced the Indian Education System with the British one and camouflaged it under the garb of modern Science and Social Science, and improvement, and actually made us uneducated eventually. But that was in his political interest, and that is precisely what our Government has also followed over the last 40 years.
Keep Education as a big open issue, so that you can tap the vote banks. And what Mahatma Gandhi had proposed in early 40s, with a lot of thought for the nation's pedigree, was packed off by Nehru, with his appointed Kothari Commission. Google it, and you will find a copy of the report. It is around 300 pages, and an easy read, but not difficult to read between the lines the political agenda of each element.
The summary of all this is to keep the Junta uneducated, even if they fall under the educated category.
Let us first look at the salaries. You need a Teacher to be a graduate, followed by a B Ed degree, which was nearly impossible in the 1960s and 1970s, to be a full time teacher in a Govt. school. It clearly meant that less educated teachers would teach as GUEST TEACHERS for less. And, the Govt. can siphon off money, and meet their uber unsaid goal of keeping people uneducated.
Now, that laid the foundation for today's education level. To top it, the salaries didn't go up with the liberalization and the private sector boom. Worst, the salaries for teachers in the private sectors were also paltry. That pushed the passionate and talented ones to other professions like Engineering, Medicine, or even to professions that they would never use their skillset, such as the BPOs. While all this started 40 years back, least did we realize that it was an organized ploy to keep us uneducated.
Now, those less capable, less passionate and less qualified people got into this line, and have become Principals of today. It is really pathetic, as to how a person can become a principal, whereas he wouldn't qualify for a BPO job, or even a clerical data entry job. So, the system for failure has been created and mounted on the wall. It has been allowed to grow really well into a monster. While all this time, public statements, every 5 year plan, every 7 year plan, every budget kept claiming the increase in the number of schools (Not the increase in the quality of education). So, the different govts kept showing us a different image of the reality, that our parents and we, kept consuming with oblivion. Soon, our children will also consume the same crap.
Now, building on top of that foundation, the story of the last 10 years as you told here stands true. To add to that, comes the non-detention policy, where the students are not detained till 8th class. The reality is that there are so many daily wage kids who enrol into these schools to get the daily midday meals and the pair of annual uniform, that they can wear. They don't need to attend the classes, and can scribble anything in their tests, and still keep passing till 8th Class. After that, they will be listed as a literate Indian, qualified up to 8th Class, and be categorically eliminated out of the system. This is no less than a crime, but we accept it gracefully and appreciate such decisions. This has been the reason that the competition has been reduced greatly these days. The biggest joke is that this feeds the educated people, and helps them drift further ahead of the pack. So, you have the "AYE" of the educated as well.
Then the private sector story as you have mentioned here in first post.
Now, the neo-parents, and the super-elite schools of the day, which are continuing the legacy in a different manner. Even 12th Grade teachers feel like baby-sitters now. The parents don't have time for their children. These parents are machines, embedded into a mint. They may also not know what their child looks like. For them, the school is a creche, where their 17 year old baby goes, so that they can be at their workplace, or their kitty party, or the shopping malls, or any other engagement that would keep them away from their baby. It doesn't matter if their baby has a test, but they would take him/her for a vacation abroad, because that was the only schedule they had in their official time table, and it was recommended by a counselor that they spend time with their child. We have created a literate uneducated baby, who has learnt all the vices, and who is a part of the organized crime. Eventually, this baby might even become a leader as his parents are wealthy, and ensure that he continues the legacy of keeping people uneducated.
Don't worry, another 10 years, and we will have a generation that will not even be able to comprehend what is written here. Then, they will be happy go lucky, because they won't even understand that they are in a grave. They would have been drained completely and would just be a mechanical part of the system controlled externally. Sounds like The Matrix?
By the way, look at the entire history of the world. Do you think, it is even possible to have more number of educated people in the world? Wouldn't that lead to more chaos? Isn't the number just apt? Isn't the inequality the reason that the world functions smoothly? Aren't we trying to spoil the natural equilibrium by spreading education?
I am sure, you would have read Lord MacCaulay's post that did circles a few days back on Facebook. It happened in 1833, where he replaced the Indian Education System with the British one and camouflaged it under the garb of modern Science and Social Science, and improvement, and actually made us uneducated eventually. But that was in his political interest, and that is precisely what our Government has also followed over the last 40 years.
Keep Education as a big open issue, so that you can tap the vote banks. And what Mahatma Gandhi had proposed in early 40s, with a lot of thought for the nation's pedigree, was packed off by Nehru, with his appointed Kothari Commission. Google it, and you will find a copy of the report. It is around 300 pages, and an easy read, but not difficult to read between the lines the political agenda of each element.
The summary of all this is to keep the Junta uneducated, even if they fall under the educated category.
Let us first look at the salaries. You need a Teacher to be a graduate, followed by a B Ed degree, which was nearly impossible in the 1960s and 1970s, to be a full time teacher in a Govt. school. It clearly meant that less educated teachers would teach as GUEST TEACHERS for less. And, the Govt. can siphon off money, and meet their uber unsaid goal of keeping people uneducated.
Now, that laid the foundation for today's education level. To top it, the salaries didn't go up with the liberalization and the private sector boom. Worst, the salaries for teachers in the private sectors were also paltry. That pushed the passionate and talented ones to other professions like Engineering, Medicine, or even to professions that they would never use their skillset, such as the BPOs. While all this started 40 years back, least did we realize that it was an organized ploy to keep us uneducated.
Now, those less capable, less passionate and less qualified people got into this line, and have become Principals of today. It is really pathetic, as to how a person can become a principal, whereas he wouldn't qualify for a BPO job, or even a clerical data entry job. So, the system for failure has been created and mounted on the wall. It has been allowed to grow really well into a monster. While all this time, public statements, every 5 year plan, every 7 year plan, every budget kept claiming the increase in the number of schools (Not the increase in the quality of education). So, the different govts kept showing us a different image of the reality, that our parents and we, kept consuming with oblivion. Soon, our children will also consume the same crap.
Now, building on top of that foundation, the story of the last 10 years as you told here stands true. To add to that, comes the non-detention policy, where the students are not detained till 8th class. The reality is that there are so many daily wage kids who enrol into these schools to get the daily midday meals and the pair of annual uniform, that they can wear. They don't need to attend the classes, and can scribble anything in their tests, and still keep passing till 8th Class. After that, they will be listed as a literate Indian, qualified up to 8th Class, and be categorically eliminated out of the system. This is no less than a crime, but we accept it gracefully and appreciate such decisions. This has been the reason that the competition has been reduced greatly these days. The biggest joke is that this feeds the educated people, and helps them drift further ahead of the pack. So, you have the "AYE" of the educated as well.
Then the private sector story as you have mentioned here in first post.
Now, the neo-parents, and the super-elite schools of the day, which are continuing the legacy in a different manner. Even 12th Grade teachers feel like baby-sitters now. The parents don't have time for their children. These parents are machines, embedded into a mint. They may also not know what their child looks like. For them, the school is a creche, where their 17 year old baby goes, so that they can be at their workplace, or their kitty party, or the shopping malls, or any other engagement that would keep them away from their baby. It doesn't matter if their baby has a test, but they would take him/her for a vacation abroad, because that was the only schedule they had in their official time table, and it was recommended by a counselor that they spend time with their child. We have created a literate uneducated baby, who has learnt all the vices, and who is a part of the organized crime. Eventually, this baby might even become a leader as his parents are wealthy, and ensure that he continues the legacy of keeping people uneducated.
Don't worry, another 10 years, and we will have a generation that will not even be able to comprehend what is written here. Then, they will be happy go lucky, because they won't even understand that they are in a grave. They would have been drained completely and would just be a mechanical part of the system controlled externally. Sounds like The Matrix?
By the way, look at the entire history of the world. Do you think, it is even possible to have more number of educated people in the world? Wouldn't that lead to more chaos? Isn't the number just apt? Isn't the inequality the reason that the world functions smoothly? Aren't we trying to spoil the natural equilibrium by spreading education?
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