a step towards the change...

Hi Friends,

Warm Greetings !!!

I am Manisha Gupta from Pathankot, Punjab. 

I am a software Engineer by profession. I have worked with Infosys Technologies Ltd. (Bangalore) as Project Technical Lead for 12+ Years.

Currently I am in my hometown with a wish to do my bit for the society.

I have a lot things in my mind with which I wish to help in shaping our future positively.

For now, Let us discuss on Ideal Education System in India.

We surely can see a lot of positive changes in the education system now comparing to the syllabus some 20 years back. But a lot needs to be revisited still.

In current education, we are definitely teaching our kids how to win in today's competitive world.

We see, and feel happy seeing our growth and also when our kids grow. Definitely Great !!!

But, are we really learning or teaching our kids on 'how to live or how to be happy in life?'

Winning outside world is much easier today than winning a struggle inside each one of us.

Are we learning enough to win the tough situations of life? basically the 'Life Skills'?

India is really famous in world for its rich spiritualism. People from all over the world are visiting India in search of inner peace. But are we (Indians) really even know what we have? What others are seeking, do we really care to learn it? 

Why we leave spiritualism or 'Art of Living' for the second half of our life??? Should it not be included in the basic education? Should we not teach about how to be happy/healthy/balanced and strong internally ?

What I strongly believe is, we should revisit our education system. Kids should have liberty to choose what they want to learn. Education should basically seed the skills in kids, so that after completing the education they should have the talent and vision on what can they do. 

kids should be able to create jobs for themselves(and may be for others too) and should not completely depend on others to create jobs for them.

so According to me, a lot needs to be changed in the current Education System. I have made a few points here, Please feel free to add more points here, which can help us making our education system stronger.

1) Education system needs a complete revisit. Not all the students use what they learn in school till high class. So we should channelize the education system from much younger classes.

2) Life Skills should be included from pre-primary level (Yoga/Meditation/spiritualism along with Disaster Management)

PS : Please do not mistake spiritualism with any religious activities, Being Spiritual is basically being a good human rooted and balanced.

3) We should encourage on learning Skills (Skill India). students should be able to create jobs for themselves and even for others.

4) We should encourage students to understand their passion and should guide them how they can do better in achieving their passion.

5) we should help creating happy kids and ultimately happy society.

We can take reference from developed countries on how we can include 'Life Skills' in the education. We can keep our positive points and can amend some more which we can learn from others. 

We need to consider the valuable opinion from  our senior teachers / parents and guardians / Our ex Students and also spiritual leaders to design the next education system.

But ultimately, it is time to change with changing needs of the day.

Kindly share your opinion.

Cheers,

Mann.