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Edgy Education for All

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A Policy for ‘Education to All’ is a major thrust of the government and interestingly a large outlay plan of expenditure on the education sector is sanctioned in every Five Year budget plan in which free education to poor, free education to girl child and mission to make each and everyone literate are main features. Government organizations and NGOs are funded to work on faster pace to meet challenges of illiteracy in different remote and far flung areas in various states, probably some results have been said to be satisfactory but are we educated properly?

Induction of new IITs and IIMs and many more prestigious, well-structured institutions have opened vistas of higher educational pursuit to us, in fact, quality education has become easy to many but have we been educated in complete sense?

Let me explain: There was a time when gurus were imparting vidya(knowledge), gyana(wisdom) to learners which made them noble, cultured and gyani (seeker of truth). Now we have changed the path for seeking knowledge, we name it Siksha(education) connoting Swa – Ikscha (self-desire), choosing path for oneself not for the community welfare, where no concept of guru and shishya exists, instead, the former gets chargesheeted for raping a minor one or the latter says he or she is in deep madly love with teacher, god forbid, this was not the practice earlier. A respectful relation between teacher and student has been replaced with professionalism and a bond of incomprehension. Moral and ethical values have eloped with a fashion where everyone is smart enough to speak do’s and don’ts, preach down each other but never put these things in practice. It is rightful to recall the saying of Jesus “Before finding faults in others, cast the mote in your eyes”. Wonderful ! Guru has transformed himself into teacher only working in air-conditioned environment, giving excuses on some pretext or other to put forth sincere effort, besides, advices are how to imitate other’s work in a better fashion.

Look at primary and secondary level education, often vibrant with parent-teacher meetings where more and more assignments for parents to do, whatever was not conceptualized by the teacher is said to set for the parents to perform, timings in schools are odd such that children shiver out of cold in morning in winter or they face heat wave in mid-day in summer due to bad planning of school hours. No wonder, shishya also converted into student, always on toes not to seek knowledge but all those things which are irrelevant to his age, mind and condition.

Swami Vivekanand’s saying that education leads to moral values and character formation sounds bizarre when values and character have become chapters of past and pages in history. A great deal of money involved in getting proper education is making most of us corrupt to use illegal methods to enable to race with others leaving all values per se behind. We need to ask ourselves how true we are as either a teacher or a student, no angel or superpower will come to bridge the gap which is widening between the two relations.

Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu or Balihari Guru Aapne like concept will eventually disappear if teachers will go on strike against the decision of increasing their number of hours for classes or students will be coaxed by their respective teachers for taking tuition outside classes, respect for education and regard for teacher are gradually becoming Greek to students of this age.

Tags: Dr Avinash Jha, Education for All, Education

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