Saanjaly: Our Education System Is Not Suited For 21st Century

    • Saanjaly Vaishnav, class IX-A, Presidium School, Dwarka, New Delhi
    • Publish Date: Feb 26 2018 4:15PM
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    • Updated Date: Feb 26 2018 4:15PM
Saanjaly: Our Education System Is Not Suited For 21st Century

When I was 5-years- old I remember looking at my classmates and seeing happy, lit-up faces when the teacher taught us how to add and subtract numbers. Now, when I look at them all I see is boredom and disinterest. What happened to that curious little kid? I'll tell you what. School happened.

Learning is an adventure. As toddlers, we learn how to walk, run, sit, crawl without any help. We learn our native language from scratch. So why is that some children do well in school while some do poorly? Our education system is less about learning and more about rote learning. It encourages mugging up. If a student isn't able to submit an assignment on time, what do they do?

They plagiarise their work. The student who is good at mugging up information is automatically deemed as intelligent and brilliant but a student who can't memorize stuff is dumb, useless and he can't succeed in life. for not knowing the name of the scientist who discovered neutrons!

Marks become the judging criteria for the future successes of a child. If she gets good marks, she would be a billionaire, a CEO of a successful company, marry a handsome man and have beautiful children. The student who doesn't get good marks would fail in life and be a disgrace to the family. Parents use their child's marks to brag about their superior parenting to relatives and friends. When they find out that another child got higher marks than their kid, they would belittle her and compare her to the other child until she ends up believing that she could never make her parents proud. She ends up concluding that she is stupid.

Our education system glorifies the Science stream and taboos Arts. This thinking came from the Industrial Age where there was a huge requirement for factory workers who knew technical information. Nobody needed a poet to run around a factory. In fact, our education system is not fit for the children of the 21st century. It is influenced by the qualifications of a factory worker in the 1800s. A factory worker in that time period didn't need to think and needed to do exactly what they are told. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Our system needs change, our thinking needs change. Instead of teaching children to do what they are told, we need to teach them to think for themselves and express their thoughts. Albert Einstein once said, "If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will believe its entire life that its stupid".

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Haya Naved FATHER AGNEL SCHOOL(GAUTAM NAGAR)

To be honest this is the most relatable and the truest thing I have read. Every one of us goes through this and yes definitely science stream is overvalued.

Haya Naved FATHER AGNEL SCHOOL(GAUTAM NAGAR)

And it is true that our system of education is all about rote learning because if a student who has just given his exam will not be able to tell you a single thing from what he learnt because he tends to forget what he learnt, that is because he actually never learnt!! It was something he mugged up and memorised, and vomited it out on the answer sheet.

SHREEYA SINGLA Delhi Public School, Chandigarh

views expressed by u about the obsolete education system is very true. it need to be revamped as per need of today or coming years. this must be concerted efforts of all the stakeholders.

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