User talk:Bhagwan Bongane

Evolution of Education

Flipping back the pages of history, education seems to have originated from the very beginning of human civilization. We began writing in ink on papyrus and after nearly a fifty centuries, I am typing this essay on Microsoft Word .Everything has changed, ranging from our way of life to our priorities ,however one thing has always remained same : man’s struggle for survival and enlightenment .We, the humans are by birth inquisitive and love to learn ,explore new things and welcome changes. Years of research and dedication, and we were gifted the greatest boon for mankind: Modern Education. It‘s modern education that has made us what we are today. It might not be wrong to say that modern education has helped turn our dreams into reality .However; things are not the same as before.

The human family has more than 7 billion members today and mother earth is at risk now more than ever before. Time today demands versatile and creative young men and women who can cope with the challenges of life and take the society, the nation and the world a step forward on their account. With the challenges of life getting more complex than ever before, we require a system that helps young learners to develop not only as skilled professionals but also as logical thinkers who can find a solution to their own problems. For a happier life and a better human society, the education of the century requires incorporating real issues and including methodologies that can help fulfill the needs of today and aspirations of tomorrow. Apart from academic knowledge, modern education needs reforms that can help individuals prosper socially, emotionally, physically and mentally.

The divergent has to do with the way the evolution has taken place. Modern education is still shackled by Macaulay’s ideas. Macaulay did not want to liberate India and lead her towards the light. His aim was to provide the British government with clerical staff. Even today India prefers to groom its youth towards lucrative foreign shores to perform clerical tasks.The divergence, this sees the divergent growth of repetitive tasks being practiced in schools and is a growth away from the way education is being looked at in developed countries. This has seen a curriculum being built on monotonous memory tasks. It has seen us shying away from philosophy, humanities and the arts.

The aim is to groom the youth to feed the needs of industry. While medieval industrialisation is losing out to the ideas of sustainable development, the world still hesitates to tear down the temples of modernism or the factories, the fossil fuel based industries, the mining industry. The parallel growth is yet to be seen. It is perhaps lingering in the corridors of the policy makers, but shy of exposing itself. We wait with bated breath for Indian education to look beyond mere academia and to enlarge the application based pursuit of suitable skills, which ideally, the future of education should be.A vibrant seventy year old young nation with a promising bunch of young people, India should at least be able to take the lead in alternative medicine, best practices in agriculture and also hone its students to be more creative, to encourage critical thinking and to be able to conduct research. Only then will it truly be able to fulfill the promise of the millenia