So, guys when I ask this question: what is the first thing that comes to your mind? It will be money or something dear like a personal belonging. But here I am talking of the property we all have an immense potential in, but which is often left to rot and is seldom paid attention to.
Yes, I am talking of innovation. Innovation which is the very gist of success. The one asset that each and everyone of us has been bestowed with. But, one which we tend to lose as we advance in lives.
So by now many users must have decided that this article is of no use to them. But if allowed to write so in the heading this article can change you lives if you still have the ability to learn from it. I am not being preachy, I am just sharing my experiences, those that have come from toilsome efforts.
Yes this article is about the INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM showcasing its pros and cons and ultimately relating it your lives and how can you start winning. If you can derive some inspiration from it. But first we must address the most important question. What is education. Many of us might argue that they know it meaning but very less really understand it.
Education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. Well this is the definition what I found on wiki but do we understand the real aspects of education.
How many of you remember your school. We will deny due to our natural tendencies but deep down we ourselves know that we crammed the answers not knowing what they meant. This is the primary drawback of the indian system. We are forced to learn by a stick. Seldom our we left alone in the world to learn things on our own out of enthusiasm and curiosity. From the moment a child is born he/she starts learning a process which is life long. But then why are we made to cram things and not to reason and develop an individual thought. One which might prove more helpful than a replica of answers in the answer copies. Eventually it becomes our tendency to just cram things and vomit it on the exam sheets without even understanding anything and that is why we get robbed of our ability to INNOVATE. We become like servile toadies that do whats commanded not paying heed to the reason or cause.
I am sure many of you must be thinking that you know this and this issue has largely being discussed and even portrayed in movies like 3 idiots, but very rarely do people realize that we are having an edge over other countries not because of what we know, but the amount that we are taught forcefully or what we have crammed in our schools. But how useful is such education. That is why we perform exceptionally well when kept in a free environment where we have freedom to innovate and think out of the box. The very reason most people going abroad start performing well, not because they crammed more, but they no longer remain in a system that drains innovation.
Counter acting to this situation can be the toughest part. Our situation is like a paralytic trying to finish a marathon. But to break the shackles of convention and rise to become an innovator is the very purpose of man, a divine endeavor for which we were bestowed with such a brain. Try and innovate every day. It can be a new way to do a task, fun ways of doing chores innovate daily. When learning, do it for the sake of learning and not for getting marks. If such is your situation, this kind of education wont help you in the long run and so why do it. Rather invest time in more meaningful pursuits, ones which you love and those things that come naturally. Try and convince others including your parents, as if you cannot convince those who love you the most, for what you love doing the most, what’s the point in pursuing such targets.
In the end its we who will have to change. Its high time we kept putting the blame on others and cowering from our responsibilities. We must change in order to change the world. If you want to win INNOVATE.
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