We, the Indians present India as the Incredible country. In fact, it is incredible for many reasons. To make it incredible, every state and union territory plays a crucial role. The varied culture, art, artifacts, monuments, folklore and the unsung stories in the bosom of history make it truly adventurous and attractive to millions of tourist who visit India every year.
I belong to Bihar, the state which is known the great historians, philosophers, personalities and education. Being a teacher when I compare the present system of education in Bihar with its stupendous and glorified past, I feel, with the passage of time, the glory of Bihar got blurred. Right from the schools to the higher educational institutes, every single person involved in this education system is thinking about the making profits. No doubt that education is emerging as an industry and it is one of the profit making industries.
The problem is not with the process of money making, the real problem is the way the knowledge is imparted to the students. From 20 February 2017 to 29 March 2017, I interacted with at least 1000 plus students of one of the well-established engineering colleges in Bihar. The students who have appeared for their end-term examination seemed to be confused. They hardly looked confident and were seemed to be unprepared. But these students who are tech savvy and keep good know-how of latest technologies, have used it in different ways.
Mobile watch phone which is hardly known to general public acted as a savior. Micro photocopy of the documents saved the life of the students who have made up their mindset to pass the examination by cheating and using unfair means. On questioning the students, they had one simple answer, the things that are taught in the class differs totally from what is asked in the examination.
As a teacher, I disagree with the statement given by the students. On one hand, they were prepared with illegal resources in the examination hall to attempt the asked questions and contrary to this they say that their teachers are at fault.
With the youth of this incredible nation, I can only plea and wish that they need to understand the significance of knowledge skills. How important these skills are in building and developing the career. They need to work hard in obtaining knowledge which can shun the ignorance and can help them in gaining valuable information.
Why these students who are pretty matured by age fail to understand the importance of education in life?
Only with true knowledge skills, one can become confident, can improve other skills which can create employable skills.
