The Education System in India

Our education system is a gigantic conglomeration which educates millions of students daily. Various aspirations of different students are met through our expansive examination oriented routine. This essay is going to discuss the different opinions that are running through my head, fighting over one another to gain precedence.

The way education is practiced in India has many critics. There are also an equal number of proponents to the same. It depends on which facet of education you look at. Currently with India's mass I don't think there could be any other viable solution other than making the system examination oriented. Good Institutions would definitely like the best students and the only fair way they are going to get them in our country are through exams.

Take government Institutions for example; currently they are tackling this issue with the help of reservation. Many backward class people have gotten into good places of study with the help of reservation. I am not a proponent of reservation, since I have on occasions been on the receiving end, but I also have no right to be a critic, since reservation has indeed in a certain ways helped many people.

Now moving on to Private Institutions. These are heavily examination oriented (atleast the majority of them) and supposedly filter out the lower aptitude students through their exams (lower aptitude on that particular day of course :) ). Unless forced by the government these Institutions do not practice reservation. They are mainly money making ventures and the only way they are going to get the best students are through the various exams and aptitude tests.

If our education system is not the solution, then whom do we follow?
Let us ideally take the US for example here. Their neighborhood schooling system is the pride of their nation. Their Universities are world class and are the best in the world. India ideally could adopt such a system, but is it viable?? For a mass so great I do not think this is an easy task. It requires a lot of ground work and implementation of the same. The greatest factor here is time. We are going to need a lot of it, along with patience and perseverance.

Considering our huge pool of students, we must come up with a unique system which combines the examination oriented approach along with the neighborhood schooling and University approach.; thus preventing brain drain.

I have only addressed a small aspect of our education system, looking at it from a highly the Macro level. Going deeper there are so many issues that need resolution, through effective debate continued with action.