QUESTIONS ON EDUCATION SYSTEM

QUESTIONS ON EDUCATION SYSTEM

 Why do we always see students being envious of their counterparts in the USA?

Answers- It’s because there are just three options that students have after class-10 they are stuck with Science, Arts and Commerce. If they are not good enough for either of these, they jets set straight into diplomas and certificates courses. Do not you think the Indian Education System needs to introduce combination courses in which students can opt for major and minor subjects? If students in America can pursue physiotherapy with Art History and Biological science with Photography, why not in India?

Is it justified that a student is evaluated only on the basis of his/her performance for the duration of three hours of the exam?

Answer-All the other evils of the Indian education system ultimately come down to the method in which students are marked. It is not justified that a student is evaluated only on the basis of his/her performance for the duration of three hours of the exam. If the axis of grading and marking is shifted to classroom participation, project work, communication and leadership skills and extracurricular performance, only then genuine student shine out. This might sound like a utopian proposition but the Indian education system badly needs to bring about this change. Students are just not evaluated on the basis of exams, they should be evaluated on the basis of overall development and attention and their mentally level. Because some students just do ratafication during the exams and them able to get good marks but in real they are not attentive with the knowledge and use of that knowledge in practical aspect.

Is there is respect for all streams?

Answer- “Oh has she done a MA in English? She will end up becoming a teacher”

“What good is a diploma in hospitality management? It ultimately means doing a job in a hotel a cook right?”

If you have heard these lines time and again from your elders, do not you think it is time to stop them? How long are we going to look down upon vocational streams and look up to medicine, engineering, the IIT’s and the IIM’s?  Students at the school level need to be educated through career counseling regarding the kind of streams that exist and what importance each of them plays to make an economy diverse. There should be respect of all kind of streams.

What are the reasons for the tuition classes mushrooming nowadays?

Answer- Commenting on this subject is like plunging one’s hand into a vicious cycle which seems to have no beginning or end. Reason for tuition classes mushrooming are because students say that the teaching in school is lax and not good enough for them to clear exams. Whereas teacher say that students jump ahead many chapters in the tuition classes before they are even taught in school. This makes them loose all motivation and stream to attend school in the first place.

Beyond the figures, what do we know about the excluded?

 Answer- Exclusion has many faces. Despite real progress since 2000 towards universal primary education, 72 million children are still not enrolled at all in school. More than half are girls. Seven out of ten live in sub-Sahara Africa and south and west Asia. Poverty and marginalization are major cause of exclusion. Households in rural or remote communities and children in urban slums have less access to education. Disabled children suffer from blatant educational exclusion- they account for one third of all out of school children. Working children, those belonging to indigenous groups and linguistic minority’s area among the vulnerable groups. Some 37 per cent of out of school children live in 35 states defined as fragile by the organization for economic Cooperation and development, but these do not include all, places facings conflicts and post conflict situations. In every case children are at enormous risk of missing out on an education.

Research on out of school children suggest that many countries are now promoting access to school but not ensuring decent education quality. Why?

Answer- Once you indentify who the excluded are and why they are not in school, Strategies can be developed to get them into school and keep them there. The challenge is to implement policies and practices to overcome the sources of exclusion. It is necessary to look at what happens in and out of school-from children’s daily reality in their homes and communities to what happens when they go to school, what they are actually learning and in what conditions.

 How does inclusive education promote successful learning?

Answer- Efforts to expand enrolment must be accompanied by policies to enhance educational quality at all levels, in format and in non-formal settings. We have to work on an access to success continuum by promoting policies to ensure that excluded children get into school coupled with programmers and practices that ensure they succeed there. It is process that involves addressing and responding to the diverse needs of learners. This has implications for teaching, the curriculum, ways of interacting and relations between the schools and the community.

 How does education need to change the accommodate everyone?

Answer- The overall goal I to ensure that school is a place where all children participate and are treated equally. This involves a change in how we think about education. Inclusive education is an approach that looks into how to transform education systems in order to respond to the diversity of learners, it means enhancing the equality of education by improving the effectiveness of teachers, promoting learning-centered methodologies, developing appropriate textbooks and learning materials and ensuring that schools are safe and healthy for all children. Strengthening links with the community is also vital, relationships between teachers, students, parents and society at large are crucial for developing inclusive learning environments.

 Teacher has a foremost influence on learning. Yet their status and working conditions in many countries make it difficult to promote inclusion. What can be done to improve their lot?

Answer- The way teachers teach is of critical importance in any reform designed to improve quality. A child centered curriculum is characterized by a move away from rote learning and towards greater emphasis on hands-on, experience-based, active and cooperative learning. Introducing inclusion as a guiding principle has implications for teachers’ practices and attitude –be it towards girls, slow learners, children with special need or those from different backgrounds. Adequate pre-service and in-service teacher training is essential to improve learning. Moreover, policies must address their status, welfare and professional development. But there exists not only a severe teacher shortage, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and south and west Asia, but a lack of adequately trained teachers. This shortage has unfortunate consequences for the quality of learning. A new curriculum cannot be introduced without familiarizing teachers with its aims and contents. Assessment can help to teachers to measure student performance and to diagnose difficulties. But teachers need to understand the value of good assessments practices and learn skills to develop their own tests.

QUESTIONS ON EDUCATION, LEARNING AND TEACHING THAT HE/SHE IS FACING

Is really students are getting knowledge or they just doing “ratification” or doing rat race? Is in this way of education system in our country is promoting rat race?

Yes, our education system promoting rat race in our country. Students are evaluated in our institutions not on the basis of their abilities but are more of a rote memory test. He just learning and grabbing the knowledge but not understanding it. And he is even not using that knowledge practically in daily life. So, this kind of education system must be change. Our aim should be about providing quality of knowledge not on quantity of knowledge. Our education system should be qualitative instead of a quantitative. So a student who scores 90 out of 100 and comes first actually remains a rat. I mean to say he or she does not have any analytical skills that a child must have.

Does our education system is helping to develop personality of a child?

Today’s education is all about getting good marks in examination. Children do not get time to explore them or explore their ideas in world. Developing personality is also importance as getting good marks is also important. To develop personality in child school, college, institute must organize vocational activities or there must be vocational course so that child can enhance its talent through these vocational course and vocational subject.

 

“Now a day’s children are not critically analyzing things, they just following the establishment”, is this statement is true?

Children should know to learn their own culture, Religion and they should know to explore their own thinking as just following the textbooks is not just enough. Everybody have see things from their own view. This will help them to share their ideas with others and this improves a child thinking power. So, children should just not follow others but must establish their narratives.

 

Why does our education system make Bachelor of education course of 2 years? What are the reasons?

 

The reason may be is that teacher themselves are not trained and efficient enough to teach kids. There should be training institutions, workshops or programmers for the teachers to update their knowledge according to the needs of the present era. This cause a problem that teacher may be not able to understand the children physcology or their problem. As teachers are called as children’s second parents and school is called as children’s second house. So teacher should be more friendly and understandable with children. Our education system make this course for two years because earlier teachers may be unable to make comfortable level with children, may be they are less trained for their duty or less trained to handle children because children should be handle with care and love. 

Over-emphasis English as medium of communication in our country is wrong or right?

 

It hardly matters which language we are using when we are knowledgeable person. Knowledge of a person speaks more than a language. Obviously, while interacting with western people we need to know English language as it is international language but knowledge depends on the quality of facts and rules and knowledge but on the medium of communication of that person. To learn English is must but it should not be over-emphasized. HINDI is our national language but if you do not know English then you are counted as illiterate. Why? May be I having master degree but if you cannot speak English properly, you are treated as inferior. In Germany, Belgium, Spain, France etc there are very few people know English. But still Italy is counted as one of the cultured and advanced country and there national language is given more importance in their countries more than English and they are counted as one of the best countries in the world. So, it is not necessary to give importance to English.

 

What are we doing in our educational system, just adapting western culture?

In India, in ancient times teachers were treated as God or said as Guru. Gurus were followed by their student till their death. That time guru provides quality of education and they focus on student’s talent and help to enhance their talent and make them perfect. Guru do not put burden on students, there were no exams, and no grading system nothing but still student had more knowledge than today’s student have. Now education based on quantity not on quality but earlier education was totally based on quality.

 

Why students are happy getting highly paid salary job but lack of ambition to become entrepreneur?

Lack of ambition may be the reason earning money is becoming the only aim of every student as only money is consider as respect statue in our country. Person having a highly paid salary and earning enough money will get respect from the society. As to live happily in this country you have to earn more than enough money because money is the only thing that can bring happiness to your face.

 

How does education need to change to accommodate everyone?

The overall is to ensure that school is place where all children participate and are treated equally. Every child should participate in every activities, this involves a change in how we think about education. Inclusive education is an approach that looks into how to transform education systems in order to respond to the diversity of learners. It means enhancing the quality of education by improving the effectiveness of teachers, promoting learning-centered methodologies, developing appropriate textbooks and learning materials and ensuring that schools are safe and healthy for all children. Strengthening links with the community is also vital: relationships between teachers, students, parents and society at large are crucial for developing inclusive learning environments.
 

How do curriculum need to change to improve learning and encourage the inclusion of all pupils?

An inclusive curriculum addresses the child’s cognitive, emotional and creative development. It is based on the four pillars of education for the 21^st century-learning to know, to do, to be and to live together. This starts in the classroom. The curriculum has an instrumental role to play in fostering tolerance and promoting human rights and is powerful tool for transcending cultural, religious And other differences. An inclusive curriculum takes gender, cultural identity and language background into consideration. It involves breaking gender stereotypes not only in textbooks but in teachers’ attitude and expectations. Multilingual approaches in education, in which language is recognized as an integral part of a student’s cultural identity, can act as a source of inclusion. Furthermore, mother tongue instruction is the initial years of school have a positive impact on learning outcomes. In Zambia, for example, mother tongue is used as medium of instruction for the first three years of schooling with positive effect.