As students, we all know our curriculum very well, whether it be science, humanities or commerce stream. It lacks practical learning. All that we are taught is theory, theory and more theory and when we go into our respective work fields, we are unable to perform there, as we don’t know how to apply our theoretical knowledge, practically, and there, we are outperformed by uneducated laborers who make joke of our graduation degrees. Many of us have already faced that and the rest of us are going to face this embarrassment very soon.
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Basically, our whole education system is flawed, from the very beginning we are just told to memorise and increase our rote learning capability, firstly the alphabets and numbers, then names of fruits, vegetables, etc and then we start memorising more complex things which we don’t even understand completely and this keeps going on until we complete our graduation or masters in a particular stream. We all know Albert Einstein, a name synonymous with genius. We all know how incredible he was with science but very few of us know that he had a hard time during his school, he struggled with rote learning and memorising the various things that we all have memorised at one point in our lives. So, if we all have to be judged on the basis of the things we have memorised, we should be considered as more genius than Einstein but we all know that it isn’t true. The very fact that our country hasn’t won a Nobel prize in the last few decades in science also proves that we are lacking something in our education system. Our education system is basically designed to make students cross the benchmark of 33% and it isn’t bothered whether a student’s grey matter is touched or not. The curriculum has no practical implication in real life, even the science students are just made to memorise the various scientific phenomenon and laws. And in lot of schools and colleges, they give you a certain set of questions which the students have to learn prior to examination. Thus hindering a student’s mental growth and making him/her live in an illusionary world where s/he is a topper and s/he knows everything. And the desire to become a topper and obtain good marks in exams is further fuelled by peer pressure, pressure from our parents and society and we all have heard that famous dialogue ”Sharma ji ke bete se kuch seekh, vo purra din padhta rehta hai aur usne 95% marks laaye hai exams mei”. Even in certain competitive exams, a lot of memory based questions are asked and very less questions testing a child’s mental ability are there. And even in them, children just try to get more marks than the required cut off.
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So, in my view our curriculum is not designed to enhance our practical knowledge. Our concerned authorities should try to include more and more practicality in our curriculum.
They should also try to organise seminars and workshops, where children are taught how things work in real life by the people who are pioneers of the subject, that is being taught. They should use the technique of Live demonstrations and the schools and colleges should be provided with proper instruments and apparatus. And all other things which are used for practical demonstrations to ensure the good quality of teaching. It should also be taken care that, the teachers are well educated and have a good experience of performing those praticals. Even teachers and professors can contribute in this by asking more practical based questions rather than memory based questions in exams, thus helping those students to excel who are learning practically rather than those who are just rote learning.
Curriculum, should therefore be updated with the trends going on to make students learn the skills which are more practical.
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