Friday 20 July 2012

Poor Educatuon System for Poor

What is education for ? To make you aware of some science affairs or some history dates, or it is for making one able to calculate his finances ? I think education is much more than a curriculum. In India literacy rate is increasing day by day but are we providing the confidence of knowledge to a person so that he can question the system in case of being cheated. I can see hundreds of NGOs working in the field of education but still people are so afraid of questioning. Questioning when an Auto wala cheats you, questioning when police harasses you, questioning when some one demands bribe and so on. India is against corruption but still majority of the country is unaware of this situation because he/she has not bean taught the pros and cons of corruption.When a girl child is raped in a village or even in a city, people think its better to keep quit because they don't know what will happen if someone keeps quite on a issue which is not his personal issue but a national issue.Janlokpal will bring a clear system but will people come in front of Lokpals with issues ? I think either answer is no or it will take a lot of time. Why not to educate gen next about present laws or upcoming laws, duties and moral responsibilities ? Corruption is an eternal issue it can only be eradicated through mature nurturing of children. Make a rickshaw wala so powerful that he can complain if someone fights with him for wages, laws are there but he is so hesitant that he'll never turn up or he has a fear of system, either caste or political. Our work should not be to make a farmer literate but educated enough that he should not commit suicide and ask govt why is he in such a condition, We are coming up with such curriculum."Chal Bharat Chal "

Monday 16 July 2012

Education in India - A Blame Game

Education is not a system in India, its just a burden that even parents want to lay off.Primary education is about knowing the alphabetic system, higher secondary about mathematics then after its all about job. We only complain the in late 40s that we don't know what budget is, what inflation is, what is the importance of civic sense and there are lot of common sense that that we delete from our job aimed education. If we talk about Return of investment then actually we are incurring a huge loss.A common incidence - A huge population of India, even graduate people are unaware of Blood group, blood donation and trivia related to it. When we want blood we think its our right to get but what about at the time of donation. how blood comes to a blood bank is also a process and we need to understand and support. We shout at price rice or inflation, why don't we rebuttal ? because we don't know its pros and cons. If we embed all this quality in our education system then may be we'll have an upcoming generation more responsible than present one. What we are fighting now or then is with present system but we are not doing any thing in modifying our outdated education system. In today's time, students are attempting suicide because of marks and placement in an MNC. So in India we teach that if you don't have good certificates or job then you should die.Time to think the root cause of increasing crime rate in children, insecurity in children, negative competition in children and lot of many stuff related to what we can embed in them to make them a loyal citizen as well as a good resource.We are coming up with such a course outline. "Chal India Chal".

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Saturday 14 July 2012

Evaluate students on few social skill sets too


Skill Set

Education is not only important but few aspects of it has to mandatory, so that students must access it for a long time and make it a hobby.

--------- Make the good work compulsory ---------------


Implementation of Education for Social Cause

We often talk about more practical and live sessions in any curricular, this is because we want students to understand where to apply which concept. If this is true in the case of normal education then why not in the case of laws, legal duties, civic sense, fundamental duties etc. At least one should know the practical aspect of annual budget, effect on normal life, corruption and its disadvantages and with it, how to tame these social issues through laws already present in the book. Laws are not made to keep stuffed in a book. These are made for citizens to access.
How to make law accessible to common man, how to bring transparency in any system. "Chal Bharat Chal" is all about this.Find the ways through which a person sitting in Sikkim can help a person suffering in Kanyakumari. Working class can contribute through few hours in weekend. 

Education and Literacy - Time to Differentiate - Chal Bharat Chal

Long term debate on defining education and literacy has made us to to stand on a no man's land. Literacy may give us all the tools to live a life, but still it is far enough or the tools are not enough to enable us to prove our life as a human. There are many duties mentioned in our constitution that one should follow then why not making it compulsory for the educated class to educate an illiterate class or just literate class because in today's world no body does a social work out of moral compulsion. This debate is to ensure how many like minded people will stand up for the cause, weekends in a class room than in a movie theatre.Use all the quality that education has given you, like singing, dramatics, music and of course knowledge.we can frame a standard course for "Chal Bharat Chal" including all aspects like, social responsibilities, skill set, music, drama, knowledge of national heritages etc. Please come forward with ideas and documents that will be presented in a form of course for upcoming generations.

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