I have seen many students preparing for IITs, AIIMS and at the same time talked to many who have studied from state boards, government schools and private missionary schools. What I see, the main issue today in education sector is- these institutions do not give the students a time to think on what they should aim to do in future or in other words where their core interests lie.
Let me explain you this in detail. For example, a student who is studying in class 8 in, suppose a government school, is taught mainly 5 subjects Social science, Maths, English, Science and Hindi. May be 1-2 other subject like Phy ed or something miscellaneous. Now, suppose he scores good in English and Hindi in mid term examinations, which are definitely held either in private or government school and scores bad marks in maths or science(Type A). The school gives him the report card with aggregate marks on it. he feels good to see his literature marks but feels disappointed after he goes to his parents to show how much marks in total he has scored. Now, a general perception that develops first is - "the child has not RANKED good in class". And that "child is not very good in studies". Why? Because his aggregate marks are not so good. Now 2nd perception slowly emerges- "although he is good in eng/hindi" . When he is promoted to class 9, among 60 students he is nowhere between 1-25 which is very likely. When he takes the mid term examinations of class 9 , again the same situation emerges with little deviation. Slowly the boy/girl slowly makes a final perception that "ab science me kamjor hain toh hum padhne me ache nahin hain" . Now the reverse situation can also arise- he does fairly good in science but not in arts/literature subjects (Type B). This time again his rank will slip. Next, is 3rd class of students who are doing good in all subjects (Type C). Common perception that develop for them is- "he is a good student. One of the toppers." Rest are not doing good in any subject )(Type D)
Now, we have to change this classification and perception. We can change classification like this- Those fall in Type A category- we can lower the weightage of marks for the subjects in which they are not doing good. Definitely you have to first confirm this trend by his continuous scorings in these subjects in previous classes. A lengthy work but fair. Similarly for "Type B" students. Challenge remains for "Type C" and "Type D"students. If you have equal weightage for all the subjects for the former class, they will irk you when sometimes they fail to score good marks in some subjects. Because Sachin does not make century in all the matches. And what will you do for Type D students? What you can do is keep same weightage for both these types.
This system has many demerits as well but the idea is to recognise the best 2-3 subjects in which students are doing good. If this idea fails, something other than this has to be tried. But the scenario has to be changed. So that by the time students complete their class 10, they have a fair idea in which they can build up their career. What happens now is that, if someone is not doing good in science, he ends up studying engineering which will not do good to him in the long run. India has to create "a pool of best talent- which can evolve from many ways-engineering, medicine, historians, economists, geologists etc."
Now this pool should be given wide opportunities- in industries, government, private sector companies and etc. Why should any historian sit idle and think that there are no opportunities for him. There should be good recruitment to historians in museological, archeological, numismatics and other govt departments. In short scope of each discipline needs to be amplified.
Coming to an end, I would like to say that we have a demographics of India has inherent advantage if more than 65 % of population below 35 years of age. This big chunk should be channalised in best possible way. Be free to employ resource, innovation, technology, good international relations, anything to achieve this.
Now, we have to change this classification and perception. We can change classification like this- Those fall in Type A category- we can lower the weightage of marks for the subjects in which they are not doing good. Definitely you have to first confirm this trend by his continuous scorings in these subjects in previous classes. A lengthy work but fair. Similarly for "Type B" students. Challenge remains for "Type C" and "Type D"students. If you have equal weightage for all the subjects for the former class, they will irk you when sometimes they fail to score good marks in some subjects. Because Sachin does not make century in all the matches. And what will you do for Type D students? What you can do is keep same weightage for both these types.
This system has many demerits as well but the idea is to recognise the best 2-3 subjects in which students are doing good. If this idea fails, something other than this has to be tried. But the scenario has to be changed. So that by the time students complete their class 10, they have a fair idea in which they can build up their career. What happens now is that, if someone is not doing good in science, he ends up studying engineering which will not do good to him in the long run. India has to create "a pool of best talent- which can evolve from many ways-engineering, medicine, historians, economists, geologists etc."
Now this pool should be given wide opportunities- in industries, government, private sector companies and etc. Why should any historian sit idle and think that there are no opportunities for him. There should be good recruitment to historians in museological, archeological, numismatics and other govt departments. In short scope of each discipline needs to be amplified.
Coming to an end, I would like to say that we have a demographics of India has inherent advantage if more than 65 % of population below 35 years of age. This big chunk should be channalised in best possible way. Be free to employ resource, innovation, technology, good international relations, anything to achieve this.
