Teaching Ideas

Teaching ideas

It’s just a mundane exercise of mugging up things and vomiting them out. 

Well history of education began in India with Vedic period. The word Veda originated from the word Vid which bears the meaning of knowledge.

What are we learning in schools, colleges and universities? Long lectures, that’s it. In Vedic period we will notice their methods of teaching were based on practice and less on theory, and that helped in living the life better. Are these practical things really happening to our educational system. Well, the answer probably would be no. So bringing in practical things into our education is very important. We teach our children to mug up things from the very early age but do not let them use their own creativity. Their own original thoughts and ideas.

In the 19th century, Brits framed an educational curriculum which we are still clinging to. As for themselves, they moved on. But we are still chasing the leftovers. The trust deficit among the individuals in our educational society creates more and more bureaucratization in our education system, which directly impacts the academic, creative and research spirit of the academia. Primary education is the essence of social change, mobility and modernity. But what are we doing? Simple, lacking in primary education too.

Well, pupil-teacher relationship should be based on love, respect but it’s all reverse in our case, that’s why students hesitate to ask questions and a communication gap forms. It remains there until our death. We need to change our basic education system, we should make teacher-student bonds stronger. Primary education is the base and our base is not so strong.

When we compare our education system with the other countries we find ourselves far behind them all. Reasons. Our primary education. The reformation must start from very very small things: The education ministers, vice chancellors, principals should be qualified enough to innovate. They should be visionaries. There should be trainings and orientation pragrammes for teachers after every six months, so that they will keep learning how to deal with a primary class student in the primary education system. There should be counseling programmes at primary levels to a guide a student in opting a career. After the twelfth standard^, there should only be a single subject of the student’s choice in which he/she would be interested and the same should be opted by the student.