Was going through the newspaper yesterday and good to see the entire 2nd page written about education in our country. This reminded me of the speech given by our Ex president Dr. Abdul Kalam in Hyderabad. Although we are independent from the past 60+ years, we are still a developing nation with lot of potential to conquer the world. The problem I see here is that we haven't researched enough to improve the education system. It is a lot theoritical compared to the western countries where practical training is imparted. Right from our childhood, we carry lots of books to school, do our home work on time etc etc. At this point, I do agree that strong foundation yields good success, but not to an extent of studying 12 hrs a day from Pre KG.
Education being a basic right to all humans is not in reach to most of them due to various reasons main being poverty. Also I criticize the parents for not letting their kids go to school in few cases. Today we see lot of children begging near the traffic signals, which is a big business. To be more clear, they are not by birth into this act, but are forced into it by their parents for livelihood. The amount they get per day will be taken by their association/agent and they will be paid few pennies out of it. Another sad thing is "Human Sentiment" which is a big plus for these kids. Whenever we see ladies with kids <1 year, we feel a lot and give away money, but these kids are given an injection "Pentothal" which makes them unconscious for 24 hours and given this frequently the kids die in a week-10 days. Children who are considered the future of our Nation are into such acts at an age when they should be going to school.
There are lot of people who can be taken as examples who are striding to improve the education system and also life of these children , but the example I chose is of Anand Kumar who is the founder of Super 30
http://www.super30.org/
Looking at the positive side of this, we feel proud of having IIM's which are considered amongst the best in the world. That being said, there are many people from our country who invented things in their own fields, but their foundation or credit taken by western countries. This is a debatable topic to say, but thats how it is.
Before concluding this, I have few questions to myself and others as well.
Should we be proud of what we achieved till date?
Will our future generation atleast study in a developed nation?
Are we heading in the right direction to foresee a better future?
Aadiyos
Education being a basic right to all humans is not in reach to most of them due to various reasons main being poverty. Also I criticize the parents for not letting their kids go to school in few cases. Today we see lot of children begging near the traffic signals, which is a big business. To be more clear, they are not by birth into this act, but are forced into it by their parents for livelihood. The amount they get per day will be taken by their association/agent and they will be paid few pennies out of it. Another sad thing is "Human Sentiment" which is a big plus for these kids. Whenever we see ladies with kids <1 year, we feel a lot and give away money, but these kids are given an injection "Pentothal" which makes them unconscious for 24 hours and given this frequently the kids die in a week-10 days. Children who are considered the future of our Nation are into such acts at an age when they should be going to school.
There are lot of people who can be taken as examples who are striding to improve the education system and also life of these children , but the example I chose is of Anand Kumar who is the founder of Super 30
http://www.super30.org/
Looking at the positive side of this, we feel proud of having IIM's which are considered amongst the best in the world. That being said, there are many people from our country who invented things in their own fields, but their foundation or credit taken by western countries. This is a debatable topic to say, but thats how it is.
Before concluding this, I have few questions to myself and others as well.
Should we be proud of what we achieved till date?
Will our future generation atleast study in a developed nation?
Are we heading in the right direction to foresee a better future?
Aadiyos
Good job on the second post... So Time, education, next Water???
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