I think we(India) have already started remodeling our education system. Environment, facilities and course content is way better and practical these days in schools than that in our time. I totally agree that delivering content is the main focus of the education system today but I found it somewhat justified if we make earnest sense out of it. “Learning by Doing” is the motto behind asking students to deliver some assignment. Practice makes a man perfect and practice is something that every teacher should have a right to enforce on all interested students. A student is supposed to use his talent, innovation and ideas to make his assignment better than others. One thing that I found so wrong these days is that students completes assignments just for the sake of doing it, not because they are interested enough. Education System is trying to make these assignment more interactive and interesting.

In Guru Shiksha era people used to send their children to remotely located Gurukul because of lesser availability of knowledgable persons or Gurus. We are lucky to have Schools and colleges in almost every city in the country. I understand that most of the people don’t like being judged based on marks and grades that they are getting in exams. But I think it is quite obvious as this is the only ranking criteria in today’s world of so much population and competition. Also, Institutions have started personal assessment by teacher and practical tests, but that is where corruption and favoritisms make it a big fail. You cannot judge a person based on what marks he gets in an exam, But you also cannot judge his ability based on one man’s opinion(assessment).

Education and Teaching is not an independent ecosystem. To maintain standards, quality, availability and transparency, government has to intervene by setting some ground rules, making a rating system, predefine the curriculum for all standards etc so that we can be sure about what kind of skills and qualities should be expected from a student with a particular degree or certificate. In lack of rules and rating criteria, any education system will go haywire.

The one main thing I find missing in our Education system is review of teachers’ performance, their skills and their ability to teach a particular subject. You will find many teachers who has passed JBT, CTET and other difficult exams to be a teacher and yet has no idea how to teach. Sometimes they don’t even know the topic they are teaching in class. I think this is the main thing that need immediate attention and overhaul. No matter what rules you set, no matter how relevant, interactive and interesting you make course content, unless our teachers are able to deliver it in most efficient manner, nothing is going to improve. But I think we are the real culprit in it. Expertise in a particular field is achieved by working in that area only and not by just passing some exams in that particular subject. Those who become expert in a field think about their personal interest and dedicate themselves to industry (for handsome package) and never go to college to teach. Whereas, those who do Masters and Doctorates in the field mostly have bookish knowledge only and are never good enough to teach the next generation. We need to fill this gap between experts and interested ones and that is the only way we can deliver wisdom to the next generation.