Like in every sector our education environment needs strong anti-virus thrust. It requires a robust positive thinking & overhaul.
The age of internet has brought the best thinkers to our net computers. We can learn anywhere! But we have to shake off the herd-mentality where rote learning pushes square pegs in round holes! We sacrifice great talent at the altar of money-making! This leads to a life of discontent for many. The glamour of a globe-trotting career in IT has enticed many to rote-work with their creativity stifled.
We have knowledge at the tip of our fingers, even to make a living from home. We can acquire foreign degrees even sitting at home & maybe a short sojourn in another country. But the nub of the problem is failure to think out of the box.
Most aspire for desk-jobs in front of a screen. Our best like the IItians had spent years in hard-core engineering & in factory floors. Now most do financial engineering mostly losing millions in thin air!
It is time we got to basics. Let us all do at least a year of field work to learn & feel agriculture! The young even need be taught that milk is not produced in the fridge or ATMs print easy money!
We all need be the agent of change that we want to happen to us - Gandhiji. The waters out there are murky but time we started treading it. Good that people like Pitroda are thinking aloud! We have the talent but most take the easy way out as change is not for the faint-hearted, but no easy way out!
India's future is determinate and fixed. Indians have overwhelmingly decided on Rahul Baba's leadership. Once he marries and has kids, India will get next generation of leaders. All young MPs that got elected were children of older MPs. Dynasty rules in India.
Have balanced nutritious food, diet, exercise daily for a good and happy life ... Discipline comes from striving to excel in work, life, education, sports, art, music, research etc. and pursing a balanced lifestyle everyday. Successful education should be about creating wealth to maintain, protect and enhance physical and mental health, and various kinds of decision making associated with that.
What Sam is saying is absolutely correct. We need leaders who are honest and upright. We don't have to invent the wheel. We have lakhs of ex-Service Officers who are great Leaders. Unfortunate that we don't know how to use them.We have dossiers of all Officers who have retired. We can pick up the right man for the right spot and take the country forward. They all have served the country well for more than three decades each and have the best of the country in their mind. Sam, can you spearhead this or tow the line of bureaucrat - never allow a Defence Officer to come to the lime light. Sudheer Parakala
Sam Pitroda has hit the 'bulls eye' on all observations.Normally the bottom crude out of schools refineries go to the art stream while the main upper distillates of the school columns go to all professional courses.This must change and education policy must aim to attract better talents from school level to art stream. However,even the number of professionals, especially doctors are still inadequate for a big country like India.On compensation imbalance side things have improved substantially to what hey were during seventies to the nineties and whatever little extra needs to be done shpould be done.
We are screwing up the IIM and IIT teh Kohinoors acclaimed worldwide. Two developments. (a) Pass marks after joining IIT for SC/ST students is now only 18. (b) 3 SC/ST students appealed in supreme court when the Dean of IIT Mumbai asked them to leave as they had been failing in last 3 years. Now see the irony CHIEF JUSTICE of India passes a verdict saying "NO" they shouls stay in the college and you should arrange special coaching for them with extra time. So what a decision do you now trust the judiciary the only hope and then waste more of our tax payers money. (c) Kapil Sibal says that the class 12 exam marks will carry a weightage in IIT admission now tell me imagine a guy gives no class 10 exam then comes to class 12 in two years with the academics you get marks and pave way for IIT so the CREAM is getting diluted becoz the real talent is gone. This is KAPIL SIBAL saithya jana wanting to be a bravado day dreaminglike Manmohan who rightfully had done the globalisation in India. (d) And the latest so manyreserved IIT seats were vacant in last session to start so with Kapil Sibal Advice the cut off has been lowered which itself was laugh worthy. No talk of primary education corrupting only the best education just to be in limelight this is congress JAI HO.
Right for education is good though very, very late. Would government, and bureaucrats wants the right for education to be burried as historic or take it to the general public?.
Our idiotic politicians coupled with biased media in the hands of few eccentric people are good at pooh poohing the schemes which are good for making the citizens beggars rather than taking the reforms and right for education bill to general people at village level.
Is this Right for education enacted to benefit the people or on the force of international community?. If it is enacted for benefit of people , why don't they take it to general public instead of trumping the schemes or reforms only at the time of elections?. Is INC introduced the bill so that when it stays in opposition would like to take the credit saying they infact passed in both the houses?.
