Education brings about an inherent and permanent change in a person’s thinking and capacity to do things. Education is about teaching, learning skills and knowledge. Education also means helping people to learn how to do things and encouraging them to think about what they learn. It is also important for educators to teach ways to find and use information.
Many people have a superficial concept of education; equating it with doing a particular course or obtaining a particular qualification. Reading a book and understanding what you read, does not mean that you have been educated (or permanently changed), if you don’t integrate what you read into your attitudes and memory. Similarly, attending a course and hearing a lecture doesn’t mean you have changed or been educated. Through education, the knowledge of society, country, and of the world is passed on from generation to generation. In democracies, through education, children and adults are supposed to learn how to be active and effective citizens
Every day, 6.23% students commit suicide due to the peer pressure, there seems to be something wrong that we do not understand!!! Time and time again many complaints have been made against the Indian education system which is more inclined towards memorization and takes long systematic study hours leaving less time for socialization and playing games, which is an essential part of the development of a child.
In a recent survey, 66% students reported that their parents also play an important role in making a student to suffer from Anxiety & Traumatic disorder. On the one hand, the huge syllabus has mounted academic pressure on the students and on the other hand parents pressurize their wards for showing better academic performance. On the both sides, a student gets frustrated. I am sorry to say but if a single teacher can’t teach all subjects, then how the authorities are expecting that a single student will learn all subjects!!In the larger interests of the students the syllabus has to be reduced for medical and non medical subjects of Class 11 and class 12!
(The author is a lawyer by profession. His views are personal)
