Education - need for a futuristic system keeping in ming our history, our culture and our unique geography in an ever changing and inclusive world is crucial. The writeup in NDTV is apt at a time when entrance exams of all kinds are going on and students who have given their crucial 12th standard examination are waiting for the results which decide their future. Not all of their future, but a large part of it for many. It is one of those deciding moments, a milestone in everyone's life - 12th results, first degree, campus or first job, marriage, first child. One of those moments or time which have a period : before and after. Education and in turn degrees have played a crucial role in the fate of millions and will continue to do so. Whether getting a degree means one is educated or if education is validated through a degree, whatever maybe one's argument, in India, the meaning of these terms are changing and need to change for a young and aspirational population.
Some of the reasons for getting a degree yesterday and today ranges from a focused goal of wanting to do higher studies, becoming a global player in the industry, passion for technology, science and arts, to the normal like basic requirement for a job, a government job or bank job, security for future, to the sad one of 'not possible to get a degree later due to age bar' to the unexplainable by many 'need degree after name in a wedding invite especially an engineering one', 'requirement to marry an educated groom/bride', 'requirement to marry someone working abroad'. To each their need being important and in this ever changing world, the need to move ahead, to move up, to move forward, to not becoming stagnant, to not be left behind is a big driver. Whatever maybe the reasons, when quality of institutions and especially educators is compromised with business and other considerations, the future of generations is at stake. The need to cater education to meet the needs and aspirations of a rising India is more important than ever before. With the cycle of todays youngsters becoming the engineers, doctors, mathematicians, researchers, politicians, scientists, bankers, bureaucrats,,,,,,,,, and very importantly 'teachers' of tomorrow, there is an urgent need to get this sector on track.
Especially important for a country like ours where for the first time in recorded history, the numbers of our youth are more and aspirations of our young are sky high. There is need that this must be always kept centric in all our policy decisions for today, tomorrow and the future.
In this light, the article needs to be given a ear by everyone.
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