LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 15:5 May 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Genius: Our Lost Priority!
Studying the Imperatives of Education

Dr. J. S. Anand, Ph.D.
Prof. Manminder Singh Anand

Abstract

This article brings to light how our education system, based on the fundamentals picked up from Lord Macaulay, still remains unchanged in its spirit. It continues to Favour the Few at the Cost of Many. We still create students who are after ‘service’ and ‘jobs’. Certainly, a nation needs such type of people to man its vast infrastructure. But, this system is entirely loaded against the creator, the innovator. A look at the UGC API scores shows that the creative mind has no marks in it. Only people who re-write and research are given marks, one after the other. But, if you are a creator, not a single mark can trickle into your bio-data. Such a system which discourages the Creative Urge, which ignores the Genius, has played havoc with our country. Our best brains have immigrated to USA. This article is aimed at Reviewing the system of education so that Genius is given its rightful place and the system and its intricacies do not kill the genius, or force it to apply for a visa. Moreover, this system takes care of the general run of the students. But by imposing the rigmarole of classes, and forcing the students to take up subjects which don’t interest them, kills many brilliant minds in the school benches which become a grave-yard for genius. All this needs a re-appraisal.

Key words: Education, change, spirit, genius, talent, Dr. Radhakrishnan

Introduction

1.1 Pitfalls of Our System

1. COMPULSION BASED

Our system is compulsion based; not choice based. A student is not free to study the subjects he has the potential. He has to study so many subjects in which he is unable to go well; and which drag him down to an average performance.

2. JOB-ORIENTED STUDIES

The greatest compulsion is seeking a job. Students take up subjects which can afford them a job. Here, the taste and desire of the student and the field in which he can excel are not taken into account.

3. LACK OF STUDENT COUNSELLING

No teacher has time to suggest in the Matric and Plus 2 RESULT CARD that such and such student CAN EXCEL in Physics, or Chemistry, or even English.

4. IRON-WALL SUBJECT CHOICES

A student may be at his or her best in Biology and Dance. Why can’t he or she opt for these subjects? We offer them fixed subject-combinations. Just for our convenience, we place the career and choice of the students at grave risk. Why can’t the students decide their own combinations?

5. MAJOR AND MINOR

We don’t have the tradition of taking up one major subject at Plus 2 level, and one Minor, supported by a few subjects in which he or she may pass or not.

6. EXAMINATION SYSTEM

Why are there so many situations in which the judgement of the paper examiner can be questioned?

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Dr. J. S. ANAND, Ph.D.
Principal
Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College
Bhagta Bhai Ka
Bathinda 151206
Punjab
India
anandjs55@yahoo.com

Prof. Manminder Singh Anand
Assistant Professor in English
Punjabi University
Neighbourhood Campus
Jaitu 151202
Punjab
India
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