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How Should The
Indian Education System Be?
Gopal Rayappa Kolekar
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HOW SHOULD THE INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM BE?
- A Book in English
No. of pages: 82
Author: GopalRayappaKolekar
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to the underprivileged children of India studying in government schools.
Begging is dangerous to one’s existence in all walks of life.
Hence none should indulge in begging in whatsoever a manner.
How Should The Indian Education System Be?
Wed.07 Oct. 2009 Excerpts
Half of Indian students don’t go beyond secondary level
At least 48 of every 100 students in India pursuing secondary education never go beyond that level, the World Bank pointing out that the country was doing worse than Vietnam and Bangladesh in enrolling students in secondary education.
“Thirty seven percent students fail before the final examination and 11 percent drop out during the period (class 9 - 12),” the World Bank study released said.
It said with “larger numbers of India’s children now finishing primary school, the demand for secondary schooling is growing. Over the next decade, the number of secondary school students is expected to increase from 40 to 60 million”.
“An increasing share of these students will come from rural and lower Income groups, who will be less able to afford private secondary education,” the bank said.
The bank said that in India, the maximum job growth in recent years has taken place in the skilled services and manufacturing sectors. The Country, therefore, needs to provide the 12 million young people who join the labour force every year with the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes and experiences to enable them to access these better-paying jobs.
The World Bank said that India, however, does not compare favourably with its global competitors in terms of the overall educational attainments of its people.
“Even countries like Vietnam and Bangladesh, which have lower per capita incomes than India, have higher enrolment rates (GER) in secondary schools. India’s GER in secondary school is 40 percent compared to 70 percent in East Asia and 82 percent in Latin America.”
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Most-Indian-students-don-t-takesecondary-level/H1-Article-462152.aspx
Preface
Through this book, I humbly make an attempt to bring to the notice of Indians and the educational fraternity in the world at large, as to the difficulties faced by children who study in the regional language medium up to the tenth standard and then are made to study in the English medium from college.
I was born in a village named Kangrali B.K., in Belgaum district, Karnataka. I did my schooling in the regional language education system up to the tenth standard. On attending college, I found that all the subjects were in English. This was very much new to me. During my school days I was never exposed to spoken or written English properly. I had only a basic knowledge of English.
With the result, at college, I was unable to understand what the lecturers were teaching in English. My mind was unable to relate properly with the English study books. Due to this drawback I was unable to score more than the minimum number of marks required for passing the examination; though my academic record in school where I studied in the regional language was excellent. In spite of facing great hardships, I was able to secure a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Maths and Physics.
To this day, I am very much depressed for not being able to effectively communicate in English. This set me thinking that a universal English Education system should be brought into place throughout India and the manner in which we should go about it. Hence this book.
This study of mine will be very useful to India and other countries which suffer from lack of understanding the English language. This study of mine includes a grammar book on English and another on language science.
I fail to understand that though I am frequently corresponding with the President of India, the Human Resource Development Ministry and the White House; they are taking this matter very lightly, whereas I think it is of a serious social nature.
It may be observed that this matter is being hotly debated in the daily newspapers. I finally decided to publish this book titled “How Should the India Education System Be?” - in the public interest of India’s children. I respectfully request the people of India to consider this matter at the appropriate level.
GopalRayappaKolekar, Bangalore
Date: October 7, 2009
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Children having their lunch at a government school in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.
Children having lunch under the hot sun at a government school in Jaitpura, Rajasthan
Date: 10, February, 2006
Respected President of India,
Shri A.P.J. Abdul Kalam(Bharat Ratna)
HOW SHOULD THEINDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM BE?
I want to focus on the Education System in India. Till today even after sixty years of India’s Independence there is no proper Education System. Children do not learn the English language in the existing regional language education system prevalent in India. Due to absence of proper coaching in the English language, the child’s future is badly failing in India. Its shocking consequence reflects on the child’s education and future career prospects. This point should be noted. It is a very sad state of affairs that even in the 21st century; India does not have a proper language for education.
For the first time since gaining independence, the government of India has passed the Right to Education Bill in 2009 which only means that it makes it compulsory for all children to be admitted to school till standard eight (6-14 age group). It shows that this kind of policy of Education is in the mind-set of developing countries only and that we are still illiterate. So, we have to think in terms of how to give proper education to the children so that we can become a developed country.
At present, there are two systems of education in India. One - the regional language education that is taught in government schools, and the other - English medium education that is taught in private schools. The English education system is superior compared to the regional language system, because practically English medium educated students are more successful in study-subjects when compared to the regional language medium students. So, English medium education system may be implemented throughout India keeping in view the betterment of children’s education. This being the case, why should we play with children’s education? Why should we not give them a proper education to build a modern and scientific India?
I think that language cannot change our Indian culture. If we study in the English medium it will not transform our Indian Gods, then how will India’s culture get changed? So I am requesting that English education system be introduced throughout India. And it is a valid fact that more people prefer the English education system, for which they are paying high fees in private schools for better education of their children. This can be seen in urban areas of India where people have a strong preference towards English education system for their children in comparison to regional education system.
“This year in Kerala, primary schools recorded 2.5 lakh less admissions as the state insisted on Malayalam as the medium of instruction. They migrated to other states to get education in the English medium. Do you think parents are crazy to spend Rs. 50,000 to get admission into private schools imparting education in English? That is what
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