what is education?

What is education? Is it that is taught in schools? Is it reliable for you? What do you expect in education? Whether the present systems of education really insure your future? IF not how will you go about?
(By Dr. Balakrishnan, former professor, Ex., Education Counselor, advocate, independent director in public limited companies, and visiting faculty in management studies (Bombay/Mumbai/ Pune/ Bangalore universities) UGC resource person attached to Bangalore University.)

Education is the means of art of living, in one?s life sojourn. Routes are different. No school teaches one to the capabilities one has. That is the real problem. Schools provide some set kind of topics or subjects as decided by government, under so called syllabus and curriculum.
Every boy and girl has a particular talent and that need not neatly fit into these so called curriculum / syllabus. You see film actors and theatre actors are talented to portray a role and accordingly the director selects on the basis of story line. You will note all actors will not fit the roles the story line may need. Those that fit the role have the opportunity to act, and that one leads to a box office rating. If you use an actor on the basis of strait jacketed education qualification, then naturally you will find film will miserably fail. So the actor should be exactly able to portray the role to the best possible satisfaction of the spectators.

You can make a technician by the present system of technical education, but when that technician is put to do a job he needs such creative abilities and if he does not he will create a drab cinema. Cinema is totally dependent on actors and hence they are paid astronomical sums of money. Similarly every one has some caliber but if you do not give relevant education fitting his caliber, then he naturally fails. So the word education is to fit in to your talents and what is done all over the world today, you have to fit in your talents to the education provided and hence education is some kind of straight jacket mechanism. Why students drop out, just because that education is not compatible to his talent. But interestingly, we shed all kinds of crocodile tears for the student dropping out of the course. That is the vast gap is created by the present day education. Those who do this straight jacket education will not get really any mark in life, except some make believe kind of capacity, like the people in LEHMAN BROS who all contrived the world economy to go into gloom, in USA, with all kinds of false promises and lies.

Every one created by God is just unique and every one need unique kind of education and some may fit in some collective education but that does not mean all will be fitted into it. So education policies have steadily failed all over centuries and in fact education system decently failed. People run for this decently failed education system.

Parents without knowing the talent of their children submit them to some so called schools/colleges/universities, as if the end of education is in those institutions but it is a sad mistake committed by every one as if every one thinks that he knows his child better but in fact child knows about him or her better.

If that freedom is available to the child it need not wait for government alms, under so called reservations and the like, after all every child can carve out its future much more better than the so called governments? thinking process. So it is said SARASWATI/MINERVA bestows particular talent in every child world through the process of procreation.

We did not learn education in ancient India from Europe. We had our own system of gurukul and we had our Nalanda and Taxila and similar such in India so too in china in ancient times. We developed temple architecture, management so too China Pagodas and Chinese management.

Present system will doom Indians for ever.

All we need is development several hundreds of subjects and list them, including languages. Give options for students to pick up subjects that interest them. This system will have to be adopted in all kinds of crafts and technical courses in all levels of schools, colleges and depending upon the kin of pupils or students, the government should make arrangement of teachers? mobility to reach out to students. There will be full attendance in classes and also teachers will find their interests expressed and that means they will not absent in the classes, subject to necessary supervision, if we really mean education for future generation.(ends)
What is education? Is it that is taught in schools? Is it reliable for you? What do you expect in education? Whether the present systems of education really insure your future? IF not how will you go about?
(By Dr. Balakrishnan, former professor, Ex., Education Counselor, advocate, independent director in public limited companies, and visiting faculty in management studies (Bombay/Mumbai/ Pune/ Bangalore universities) UGC resource person attached to Bangalore University.)

Education is the means of art of living, in one?s life sojourn. Routes are different. No school teaches one to the capabilities one has. That is the real problem. Schools provide some set kind of topics or subjects as decided by government, under so called syllabus and curriculum.
Every boy and girl has a particular talent and that need not neatly fit into these so called curriculum / syllabus. You see film actors and theatre actors are talented to portray a role and accordingly the director selects on the basis of story line. You will note all actors will not fit the roles the story line may need. Those that fit the role have the opportunity to act, and that one leads to a box office rating. If you use an actor on the basis of strait jacketed education qualification, then naturally you will find film will miserably fail. So the actor should be exactly able to portray the role to the best possible satisfaction of the spectators.

You can make a technician by the present system of technical education, but when that technician is put to do a job he needs such creative abilities and if he does not he will create a drab cinema. Cinema is totally dependent on actors and hence they are paid astronomical sums of money. Similarly every one has some caliber but if you do not give relevant education fitting his caliber, then he naturally fails. So the word education is to fit in to your talents and what is done all over the world today, you have to fit in your talents to the education provided and hence education is some kind of straight jacket mechanism. Why students drop out, just because that education is not compatible to his talent. But interestingly, we shed all kinds of crocodile tears for the student dropping out of the course. That is the vast gap is created by the present day education. Those who do this straight jacket education will not get really any mark in life, except some make believe kind of capacity, like the people in LEHMAN BROS who all contrived the world economy to go into gloom, in USA, with all kinds of false promises and lies.

Every one created by God is just unique and every one need unique kind of education and some may fit in some collective education but that does not mean all will be fitted into it. So education policies have steadily failed all over centuries and in fact education system decently failed. People run for this decently failed education system.

Parents without knowing the talent of their children submit them to some so called schools/colleges/universities, as if the end of education is in those institutions but it is a sad mistake committed by every one as if every one thinks that he knows his child better but in fact child knows about him or her better.

If that freedom is available to the child it need not wait for government alms, under so called reservations and the like, after all every child can carve out its future much more better than the so called governments? thinking process. So it is said SARASWATI/MINERVA bestows particular talent in every child world through the process of procreation.

We did not learn education in ancient India from Europe. We had our own system of gurukul and we had our Nalanda and Taxila and similar such in India so too in china in ancient times. We developed temple architecture, management so too China Pagodas and Chinese management.

Present system will doom Indians for ever.

All we need is development several hundreds of subjects and list them, including languages. Give options for students to pick up subjects that interest them. This system will have to be adopted in all kinds of crafts and technical courses in all levels of schools, colleges and depending upon the kin of pupils or students, the government should make arrangement of teachers? mobility to reach out to students. There will be full attendance in classes and also teachers will find their interests expressed and that means they will not absent in the classes, subject to necessary supervision, if we really mean education for future generation.(ends)