REFORM IN THE PRESENT EDUCATION SYSTEM ESSAY IN ENGLISH
University education in India has made rapid progress. While formerly a state had only one university, now there are many universities that impart education in Science, Commerce Agriculture, Engineering, Medical Science and Humanities. But university education has not been much of success in India.
The aim of education is the professional, intellectual and moral training of an individual. University education should produce citizens who are men of intellectual and moral integrity. They should be tolerant, broadminded and incorruptible. Judged by this, our modern system of education is a complete failure.
Classes are overcrowded, libraries are not well-furnished with books and laboratories are poorly equippd. There is no contact between teachers and students outside the classroom. A majority of students who join colleges are incapable of assimilating higher learning.
They do not want real education but a university degree to get a good job. No professional training is provided. There is no fixed pattern of examination in all the universities. A few universities introduce semester system, whereas, the others, continue the old system.
Unfair means are used in the university examinations. The student comes to his college with a knife or pistol and he is ready to assault his teacher on any lame pretext. Our system of education is highly teoretical. There is no effort to build the character of the students.
Certain practical reforms in educational system are needed. The teaching profession should be made attractive so that intellectuals may not prefer executive jobs. The medium of instruction should be changed from English to the regional languages, to increase the grasping power of students.
The test of knowledge should be objective. Politics must remain away from education. Education should be job-oriented. Vocational and Professional education should be given at a large scale. Only efficient and brilliant students should be allowed for higher eduaction.
Political Interference should completely be withdrawn in universities. In order keep the student busy, schemes should be framed. Efforts should be made to bring about uniformity in the courses of study. Our system of examination is defective.
Examination once a year enable the students to work unevently. The student passes his first ten months in merriment and then he pours over his books for two months in order to secare a pass. This system of examination encourages cramming and the use of unfair means. So it needs a great change.
If we want to stem the further deterioration of our education, we shall have to bring about certain radical changes in the system of university education. We should devise a comprehensive national scheme of education which lays emphasis, not on mere intellectual intertainment but on making sound and healthy personality.
Our education needs more careful pianning of syllabus with a professional bias, a reformed system of examinations and provision for some creative outlets for the youth.