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World : Malfunction of Our Education by Bhuwan Thapaliya The existing system of our education is predominately theoretical. It is theoretical as a rule and practical by chance. There is no adjustment between the system of our education and the needs of our life. The student is taught lessons from pure books but not lessons from real life. In other words, he is provided with knowledge, but not with wisdom. Knowledge without any wisdom is only ephemeral and will not prevail till in old age. The student plays no active role in the attainment of knowledge. Their entire education is passive and mechanical in nature. Things are loaded on their mind, which they cannot digest; they only cram and therefore it never become their own. Our education system is just filling student's head with a lot of disjointed facts poured into the head as into a basket: to be emptied out again in the examination room, and empty basket carried out again in the world. This is the reason why student who succeeds so well in his college examination fails miserably in the examination of life. Examinations are not the real tests of intelligence. Examination is merely a memory test. Present system of examination has become outdated. Now, we realize that the prevailing system of examination doesn't fulfill the necessary condition of our education. Ceremonial examination should go. Assignment and class work should be emphasized. Examinations as conducted by our schools and colleges aren't real tests of intelligence of the boys and girls. Examinations are meant to judge if a student has gone through a certain course of study satisfactorily. Different factors constitute to the success of the students. Individual skill or intelligence is never examined. It is a fact that normal students in never satisfied with this type of examination system. Now we come to the moral and cultural development of our students. What do our universities do for their character-building? We have to sadly admit that today their function does finish with imparting student bits of information. They do not inculcate in them a love of virtue and righteousness, a sense of self-respect and personal dignity. The false glamour of western civilization has led our students astray and they have forgotten the noble ideals and traditions of past culture. Our course of study and textbooks do not breath the air of freedom and national independence. It seems that we are having pirated wisdoms. The bond between the teacher and the taught is unnatural, economic and official. The teacher is regarded as the paid servant of the university. Our students are poor not only intellectually but physically too. The unsound minds live in unsound bodies. Groups of pale, thin youths meet the eye at the portals of colleges and universities. This is so because there is hardly any provision for extra-curricular activities in our colleges and universities. The wants of physical training leads the students to lose in other ways too. They do not learn the dignity of labor. They began to shun labor of every kind, physical or intellectual. They become idle, ease-loving and extravagant. In a way, our education has become a past-time luxury, a form of amusement, like many other modern things of entertainment. Students go to the schools and colleges more for the sake of amusement than instructions. Our class rooms have an appearance almost of cinema hall, well furnished with chairs and electric fans and the blackboard which can be compared to a screen on the background of which the teacher stands, more or less, like an actor trying to please his audience by his saucy remarks, pleasant stories and copious display of antics. He is on the stage and has to play his allotted part very wisely and wittily. Our teachers also have to upgrade their knowledge frequently. Who will educate the educators? After getting a doctorate degree they think that they are the pioneers and are always right. But the verity is that the more you study the more you discover your ignorance. Our so-called savants aren't willing to accept this very basic truth. The commonest criticism against our educational system is that it doesn't help us for earning our bread. Our college and universities are like factories that produce graduates in quick successions just as a machine issues goods one after another on a mass scale. Every year more and more graduates are produced from these literary factories. They wander into the wide world in their vain effort to find employment. In life, there is no demand for these university products. The result is that the more our education expands, the more the ranks of the educated unemployed swell. In the last few years, there is no doubt; our education has improved greatly but only quantitatively and not qualitatively. One of the first and the greatest task that face us today is overhaul and reconstruct our educational machinery for it is on the regeneration of our education machinery that the regeneration of the nation depends. We have to devise as early as possible a comprehensive national scheme of education, which seeks to bring about a complete and harmonious development of all the factors of human personality About the Author(s): See under Our Contributors to find out about the Author(s) of this article. |
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