tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800491095987514922.post1816860791783975285..comments2011-04-05T18:29:07.623-07:00Comments on Ponderings of an idle Philosopher: Pension plan for the Nation.Nitin Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15445170549920614508noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800491095987514922.post-57025444252183460152011-04-05T18:20:44.469-07:002011-04-05T18:20:44.469-07:00Excellent thought. I will like to add "Medita...Excellent thought. I will like to add "Meditation" along with the education. Generally, humans get filled with lots of EGO (as they say) as they get educated. Meditation will help to keep them "child-like". In some of the verses of Bible, it's mentioned that when the Christ was hanged on the cross & he was the looking at the crowd starring at him. He said "Blessed are those who are child-like". <br /><br />I think we can achieve this state of "child-like" & "awakening" through "Meditation".<br /><br />Nice to read above blog.Saurabh Jainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02412203399187185573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800491095987514922.post-76750029064801726042010-01-31T10:15:24.050-08:002010-01-31T10:15:24.050-08:00Sushant, the question you need to ask is how many ...Sushant, the question you need to ask is how many children are interested to goto school? Again, very few! College environment is a lot different from that of school. <br />I have many times felt to NOT goto college, because nothing was taught properly! But yes, you can learn new things with friends. But a teacher is always required to guide you. Imagine a college having no teachers! Only students! How long would you think the students are going to attend college? <br /><br />I mean to say studying only for marks is bad! I study this part because it has higher weightage in the exam, but leave another part because it has less weightage. How do you feel about it? I would be happy if got only 60% marks but in the process I learnt some new things.<br /><br />Do you think that a 3hr exam at the end of the year will rightly justify the knowledge I have on the subject? May be I was not in my best health on the exam day, or something is upsetting me mentally! Can I give my best to the exam? If I flunk and give another attempt, that is seen as a black mark! <br /><br />I want to emphasize the point Aamir Khan makes in 3 Idiots: Difference between Well trained and Well Educated! Just by memorizing some important chapters and passing the exam with 80% marks makes me better at memorizing rather than understanding!<br /><br />From your post it looks as if Education System needs no change! But I disagree on that. I feel there is a lot of scope of improvement for our Education System. I feel there is a better ....<br /><br />I lost the flow as I had to take a break of two days from this. <br /><br />But my point is apart from we as parents teaching our kids in our own way, we should devise better ways of educating our children!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03325944918603795516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800491095987514922.post-1753743191652300202010-01-26T10:51:50.766-08:002010-01-26T10:51:50.766-08:00Krishna, go to any school and observe how many chi...Krishna, go to any school and observe how many children are afraid to come to school? Very few. Reason for those few, not bad education system, something else...that a child psychiatrist can tell.<br /><br />Have you ever 'NOT wanted' to go to school or college? Students WANT and enjoy to go to school or college, not largely because of good education system, or anticipating good learning, but because of the fun, friends and the environment! In the process, they learn.<br /><br />Do you mean to say, studying for marks is bad? Studying to get a higher ranking in the evaluation scale is bad? If you say that carries on in life, you mean to say you still work for marks or money not because you enjoy and enjoy learning new things? You give example of yourself coming from an environment where people studied only for marks, but as far as I know you today you don't work just for higher appraisal, do you? You enjoy your work and learn new things! It has not carried on with you. Sorry, as I said, it depends on person to person. Education System has no role in it.<br /><br />Change the education system, bring a new one, radically changed. I give you in written, the normal distribution curve remains the same. You still wont be able to teach all successfully. There will be complaints of that not working.<br /><br />'Education System' alone is not there responsible to ignite the minds of children. In the present system itself, there are students whose minds are always ignited, there are whose minds are dim, and rest where there is darkness!<br />Change the system, the situation remains same. Remember, your red my green? The present system is GREEN for me RED for you, the new system would be RED for me, GREEN for you. Success rate remains the same!<br /><br />This is what I have to say strongly: Forget about the system, forget about the politicians. <br />Do your bit and enjoy your life. Want to teach, sure do it. Let the education system remain where it is, when the child comes back home, influence him/her by your talk, thoughts, games. Involve him/her they way you want. And see him/her change the system in school. It is a bottom-up approach rather than top-down, where it is difficult for anything to retain its size when it reaches the bottom starting at the top, be it even 'teachings'!Sushanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01700538111385416317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800491095987514922.post-45015947799811143972010-01-26T10:14:03.792-08:002010-01-26T10:14:03.792-08:00Sorry dears...you can't read or learn empty st...Sorry dears...you can't read or learn empty stomach! Or rob Iraq of it oils posing savior, make money and then spend on education as US does!<br /><br />Education System in India WAS good, IS good and WILL remain good.<br />Education System in India WAS bad, IS bad and WILL remain bad.<br /><br />Both of them are true.<br /><br />"Today's youth has lost direction"<br />The above has been true since ages.<br /><br />"Aajkal ke bachchhe bahut tez ho gaye hain"<br />Even this is always true!<br /><br />Corruption aaj bhi hai, Ram ji ke zamaane me bhi thee, aur hamesha rahegi!<br /><br />If you have river, you'll have banks on it's sides. Necessary. Do you think education system elsewhere in the world is effective and good enuf? Give me examples? One typecast that I hated in 3 Idiots is the films comment on our education system! The 'definition of machine' episode is deliberate and utterly wrong! It is not that way as shown in colleges I attended.<br /><br />Also, each one in the Vaanar Sena was not Hanuman...there are the best, the average and poor always. And how do you know this...by evaluation system. I bet, intoduce any evaluation system, grading or whatever, remove todays marks system, where there is evaluation, there is tension and pressure. Evaluation is required becasue competion is there, competition is there becasue we don't have enuf, we don't have enuf because we have more than enuf population!<br /><br />Sorry...'changing the education system'..is a very good topic for essay writing in schools and since perhaps independence, students have been writing abt it. Do u think no chages have been there since then?<br /><br />Every oyster doesn;t give a pearl. Which education system do you think is responsible for Indians holding most of the intellectual positions in the world?<br /><br />Like any other aspect of society and governance, the education system too has been chaging with times and been adjusting itslef with all other chainging things. Nothing needs to be done.<br /><br />If anything needs to be done, then put a brake on the speed of growth, put a brake on the speed of production, put a brake on the speed of consumption. Yor education system will get right automatically...cascading effect you see!Sushanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01700538111385416317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800491095987514922.post-23894989629434109852010-01-26T07:42:33.491-08:002010-01-26T07:42:33.491-08:00I agree with you on this. We should invest a major...I agree with you on this. We should invest a major chunk of our GDP in education. <br /><br />@Sushant: I dont agree with you on the Education System of our country. I feel it should be radically changed. It should be modeled in such a way that, children shouldn't be afraid of coming to school. Rather they should be looking forward to come to school to learn something new! <br /><br />Having gone through the education myself, I know how the environment is. You only study because you have to pass the exams. This attitude carries into life and it can be a huge set back. There is no internal motivation for anyone to do anything. <br /><br />I feel our education system should be such that it should ignite the minds of children. <br /><br />You might ask me, if I am so concerned about our education, why am I not in it to change? Very true, may be someday I will do that!<br /><br />I hope somehow our politicians realize the importance of investing in education, and make it a good career option, so that atleast people who like to change it for the better would have a chance!<br /><br />I know its a long comment, but couldnt keep it short!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03325944918603795516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800491095987514922.post-31808406961168262342010-01-26T06:25:36.928-08:002010-01-26T06:25:36.928-08:00Very apt! And true! Investment should be on educat...Very apt! And true! Investment should be on education. Attending school and college is just a part of the education system. Family, circumstances, society, loneliness, and all other aspect of life teaches a human being. So, a person keeps learning. So investment if you say, is nothing but putting time and effort on the lessons coming out of the circumstances in life, and not getting bogged down by difficulties and hardships that's all. The point is, nothing special can be done for that. Depends on person to person.<br /><br />About our education system if you ask me, I have no complaints as the same has created our idle philosopher and me too! Many other's who will comment on this blog. So I think, the way these all people are, does not show lack of education! :)<br /><br />Finally, anytime you start solving a problem, you fall into the chiken-egg issue. One is the cause of other, the other is the cause of another, this before or that, where do you start! I am questioning the quality of teachers today? Why are not WE teaching? If we are concerend? Whay are WE not into politics, if we are concerned? Becasue that won't help simply!<br /><br />Keep doing your own work, and keep learning from your life! Learning is the purpose of life.<br /><br />There was a strong reason when a very near friend of mine dropped the idea of getting into the administration system of India (becoming an IAS) and chose a path that he liked and enjoyed. But yes, that would not have solved many probs.<br /><br />I think I have diverted from the point. Investment, yes, has to be in eduation and becoming a good human being, definitely! And how will it come, keep learning, for a small amount of time in school and college and university, and then for the whole life that you live.Sushanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01700538111385416317noreply@blogger.com