How to Improve Education Sector in India

According to one study, over 7,000 American students drop out of high school each day; that equals about 1.2 million students every year! (“11 Facts,” n.d., p. 1). Mike Rose, the author of “I Just Wanna Be Average” was almost included in this statistic. Luckily, Rose was “saved” by one of his teachers, who stoked his love for learning. In his story, Mike Rose effectively addresses the issues with public education by sharing his anecdote about taking vocational classes and providing “several reasons for the ‘failure’ of students who go through high school belligerent, fearful, stoned, frustrated, or just plain bored” (1989, p. 1). Rose’s purpose for writing “I Just Wanna Be Average” is to inform the general public of the current education system and how it needs to change. Through a relaxed, yet passionate tone, Rose showed that teachers need to be more energetic and engaging with their students. Because schools are unengaging and boring, student dropouts are occurring-- and for the same reasons today as they were thirty years ago. A study that was released in 2005

In the essay “I Just Wanna Be Average,” Mike Rose explains how the failure of students is all revolved around the teachers, when the fault should be put on everybody.

Students will become what their teachers believe they can become. If a teacher believes a student lacks motivation and is in the lower level class, such as the vocational track instead of the college track, often times the students won’t care or put in effort to succeed. The expectations or absence of them, damages the future of these students and their yearning for greatness. Mike Rose recounts his years in vocational school in the short story, “I Just Wanna Be Average” as he struggles with physical abuse from his teachers that utilized their power to control the ill-mannered youths, coupled with his lack of desire to learn, only to discover how one educator could transform his view on education.

For years our nation has been trying to improve the school system and upgrade public schools in particular; we have hired more teachers, we have the best technology with SMART boards and computers, and we have started standardized testing. Nonetheless, this all seems to be in vain; according to statistics, America has some of the lowest standardized testing scores in the world for the past couple of years. In addition, over half of all third through eighth graders enrolled in American schools have not passed English or Mathematics. If we done so much to improve our school systems, why is there more drop outs than ever and kids continuing to fail tests or classes? It is because, as Lessing describes in her quotes, we are only being taught what the teachers and our modern culture believe to be important; we are being taught exactly what the teachers were being taught by their predecessors. Students are placed in a controlling system where everyone, as aforementioned before, is being “molded and patterned” to fit in with the demands of today’s society. Our new organized ideas, such as systemized testing, are drowning out any curiosity-driven, energetic, and “fun” learning. For those few that are more “robust and individual” and encouraged to leave the system, forced to educate themselves by their own judgments. Because of the new strict, framework of schooling and standardized testing, the whole year is filled up with knowing specific knowledge needed for those tests; there is no longer time for creativity or innovate ways to teach the students. As Albert says in his introduction to Gatto’s Dumbing us Down, we have been placed in A Combine, comparing it to a strict psychiatric ward from famous novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest, where everyone is controlled and structured. We are taught in this way, so that we

Growing up with a brother only a year older than me we learned many skills at the same time. Riding a bike, tying shows, and many more. When learning many of these skills I was able to grasp there concepts a lot quicker even though I was a year younger. Many times, by parents would have to teach certain tasks to my brother differently than how they taught me. He was more of a visual learner and my parents need to be more hands on. I on the other hand was able to grasp many skills with little help, and just verbal instruction.

Although both India and the US offer a good education, the way of accomplishing this goal is different. In the US the curriculum of a subject is outlined by the professor teaching a subject, while in India the University is organizing a syllabus for a subject. In India student’s performance is evaluated by external examiners who can ask any

The educational system differs throughout the world; its viewed and taught differently because of cultural differences. Many cultures view education as a necessity of life therefore family are strict and get more involved in there child’s education. Around the world, education is given to students to prepare them for their future. The American education is considered one of the strongest systems of education therefore many countries the American system. The American education system contains many differences and similarities to the foreign system of education; however, students in the American system are not as successful as those in foreign countries like Japan.

Education is more than writing, reading, and mathematics. Education provides you with knowledge about the world, about the people. It helps you increase self-awareness, go of what you are supposed to be and embrace who you really are. It will allow you to build strong relationships, perform better at work and access to more job opportunities, etc. Education is one of the most important things you should be getting at any time possible to have a stable and happy life, money, make yourself dependent, and the final thing that every wants is to turn their dreams into reality. Converting dreams into reality would be easier for the students in India if the Indian government invested money in the education system and made it significantly better. Education helps us connect the dots and pieces together The Indian education system is really poor because of a lot of factors including teacher’s absenteeism, gender-based discrimination, gender inequality, child marriage, girls dropping out, etc.

In 2012, a research study conducted by the National Center for Educational Statistics revealed that only 73% of students entering high school will graduate (Mazer, 2012, para. 1). For those students who achieve graduation, and continue on at the collegiate level, the study further revealed that only 57% or slightly more than half will earn Bachelor’s Degrees, and 18% will leave college academics completely (Mazer, 2012, para. 1). Most laypersons, outside of academics, would probably conclude that these statistics are acceptable and reflective of a healthy educational system. Unfortunately, the statistics reveal a serious problem existing in the teacher-learner relationship. Although teacher and learner both share culpability in the problems associated with the teacher-learner relationship, and other environmental and academic risk factors contribute to the problem, negative emotions associated with learning, including lack of interest, are the primary reasons why students disengage from coursework and either fail, or withdraw from school (Mazer, 2012). Hence, the paradox of how to create interest in students still remains.

The famed chemist George Washington Carver once said, “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom”(Carver). If his statement reigns true, why are there over 57 million children not enrolled in school around the world? (UN). As a result, the UN created Global goals to ensure problems like the quality education would be solvable in the future. While Furthermore, one of their goals is the quality of education. While the quality of education can be affected through the addition of more qualified teachers, the quality of education can be improved greatly with access to more resources, without sufficient resources, such as access to the Internet or updated textbooks, many schools’ attendance rates will suffer.

We can also view, that this might be due to the past in India as well as its view on education. Countries such as China and India have long followed an eastern

I have always been a slow learner and there were various reasons for that. When I was younger I felt like I always took more time than other peers when it came to academic work. For example it would take me twice the amount of time for me to do work that I didn’t understand well than other students because I did not allow myself to proceed until I was fully satisfied that I understood it. I have a serious passion for learning things and there is no better

In previous times, it was enough for a college to teach syllabus only. But, because of the competition in the market, and emergence of the number of colleges and the academic programmes, the role of the institutions has changed now. “While making hire, companies have started to focus on the plus points of students. This is also the reason colleges have started providing such facilities to the students lately,” shares Shrestha.

The government schools in India is an important point of concern as these schools were leading once upon a time. The debate continues regarding the education system to be government or private. The increasing privatization of schools has led to the decrease in the number of students enrolled in government schools. The reason being private schools have better infrastructure, facilities and well certified teachers in comparison to government schools. People below poverty line also prefer private schools thinking that the child would support them in future. The future of government engineering colleges is also pathetic though there are many facilities important being “RESERVATION”. Inspite of this the students focus themselves on private colleges because of the quality of education, good faculty, proper infrastructure, labs and spacious campus.

Today the world has progressed in leaps and bounds in every field of study but we continue to face a value crisis. Despite high academic qualification, some people are involved in brutal and mindless terrorism and other antisocial activities. The academic qualifications have not created a cultured person and a worthy citizen. This shows a low level of Emotional and spiritual intelligence. This is where the role of the teacher becomes more significant. A teacher with high level of Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence can provide guidelines for living from a soul-level and attaining self-fulfillment in both one 's work and private life. A teacher should be a guide, philosopher and friend to the student. As such, the teacher inevitably becomes a role model to the students. It is in the elementary stage that a child starts inculcating and forming his own value system. Therefore, elementary teachers have a strong hand in shaping the child’s value systems. Only a teacher with high Emotional and spiritual intelligence in her can develop them into good personalities. The present paper discusses about the importance of Emotional and spiritual intelligence in Indian Education .and its