Friday 4 March 2011

Knowledge and Wisdom - A Friday Article


 Let us search for the root causes for this disordered generation. Here I discuss the contribution of education sector in this disorder life of a student. Let me tell you the real reason behind these adverse mentalities, since I believe that we can create solution for every problem which is created but not generated when we search for root reasons. The education of our times is not generated but it is created!

The Glass Curtain effect – The wrong route of Education

The contemporary schools give priority only to teach lessons of the subject exclusively extracted from the prescribed text book. Apart from the topic the students require some application level programme of the subject. The government schools have well qualified teachers who teach to the student scientifically with absolute teaching methodologies. The problem with the government schools is that lack of interest of the teachers due to the lack of strength. This is due to the modern Indian parents habituated to join their kids in glass curtain schools as the academies show high infrastructure and a world of myth.

The parents have a wrong concept about schools. They believe in  hi-fi schools. It’s obvious; the high demand of fee from private schools is due to high packages of talented teachers. The problem starts here itself. The schools charge high fee but they don’t hire qualified and talented teachers. Because the management of School or college education accumulates money in banks. (They already know that their school never exists in future). That is why our schools life span is only three years. Within these three years of span they create worthless and confused generations.

So they pay low package for low standard  teachers. The demand for high standards and talented teachers has been vanished (This is not created Unemployment issue in India as talented survive anywhere of the world due to Globalization). Let me make you clear scribe regarding this talent – today the academies have to look for Global Standards as MNCs in India rapidly increasing. It emerged the corporate culture in India.

Once I have attended on an Assistant Professors Recruitment which held in Vijayawada, in a legendary Academy. Many aspirants attended the recruitment.
I have seen freshers and senior most aspirants. Some of them already have done Doctorate Degrees. I have seen one of the aspirants profile as we both became close friends. He has a great talent in Physical Sciences, who is a Doctorate Graduate. He has teaching experience of eight years in Physics for Post Graduates.

I too saw a lady who is a kid, no experience and she has done her post Graduation in Physics. My Doctorate friend was called inside of the Interview Chamber. After a long time he came back to me with down hearted. He is not got selected. The lady with no experience got selected at the package of Rs 8000 per month. (Later she told me that she joined their only for time pass and experience – she is very straight, but she doesn’t know how to hide her feelings of professionalism) I astonished. This is really a hell for the aspirants. Even she could not speak at least few minutes in English Language. Whereas the academy placed a great cutout at the center of the city – Globalism speaks!

How Globalism speaks with a teacher who speaks only local language, possessed local knowledge, have a frizzed and narrow mind?

A drama of Education for bux! – And the Acting Characters.

The private Educational Organizations prepare strategic plan of campaign. They create many channels in the mission. The main sources are different from school to college. Here I mention the strategic plans of Schools and Colleges separately for the convenience of my mind (as I always get great headache when I think about these strategic plans).

For Schools                                           For Tech and Non-Tech Colleges

PROs                                                     Infrastructure
Rankings                                                Soft Skills
Infrastructure                                         Campus Placements
E-Techno Concept                                Tech-Fests.
Spoken English                                      Experienced Faculty

PRO – Public Relations Officer. His main objective is to do lips labor. He doesn’t know even about the academy which he promotes. The academies don’t have visions and goals (They write on banners some visions which were copied from western universities and colleges). They have only one vision of earning money. This PRO drags parents attention by offering them delicious discounts in the tuition fee. He declares a scheme which based on previous years marks (No consideration of Character of a student). The more marks a student gets in common examination the less fee will be charged by Educational Institutions.

To be continued on the same day of the next week....................Jai