We need Total education revolution in India....

We need Total educational revolution in India....

When i was in polytechnic college discovered that the educational system of India is not beneficial to the masses, it is neither making a person into a good citizen nor it is providing enough to make a person to survive with a suitable profession. Paying little more deep thinking gave me insights that this current educational methods not producing any geniuses like Aryabhatta , Bhaskara charya, Susrutha, Agastya muni,to name a few or not even like modern mathematician Ramanujan ,jc bose, rabindra nath tagore such people were the result of gurukul method.  I was shocked to find how this  intermediary posts like apprentice , Licentiate courses were designed to make a person to  use him to create only to act like a bridge between the local masses and the British engineers, these people were just puppets at the hands of higher officers , so how can we produce a talent pool when we have such a disastrous model of educational system. more to add to this is No think tank paid attention to revive the holistic knowledge to our people.  i wrote an article in news paper also, to vent out frustration.  A College josh.

But If we carefully introspect can  find how faulty our the examination pattern is, studying  whole year lectures without relevant practical knowledge oftne with outdated theories filled in syllabus with no relevance to current scenario and than appearing in exams based on by-heart  method and God knows how a examiner evaluate the caliber of a student a set of answers provided to them to check the  his caliber. This evaluation method is beyond my understanding if we secure 95% marks we are treated best. often to found such people failed drastically in their personal life. why our precious 20 years are wasted to make us a slave to system of life which is invented for the benefit to the rulers of foreign land?

This  is systematic destruction of child future to make him dependable  to particular system like government jobs so that those people will never revolt, and government will provide them food, clothe and govt quarters, it is clearly evident that system was designed to keep masses for a specific use. There  was no holistic thinking in educational field till date, we blindly followed British system  without thinking what exactly our diversified culture needed. we need to ask ourselves do we need such society? 

 Am not a scholar to judge the Educational system but I can clearly view that there is lots of poverty around which is not  ancient inheritance, it is  certainly due to result of poor educational system. lack of awareness in the masses to seek the progress in life, towards self. May be those people has been told countless times that they are born to  be slave ,  Be dependent.

 Rajiv Dixit ji  narrating the history how lord Macaulay destroyed Indian educational system to destroy the fundamental fabric of Indian culture and education and introduce English methods to dominate on Indians. 

Rajiv Radheshyam Dixit was an Indian social activist. He started social movements in order to spread awareness on topics of Indian national interest through the Swadeshi Movement, Azadi Bachao Andolan, and various other works. He served as the National Secretary of Bharat Swabhiman Andolan. He was a strong believer and preacher of Bharatiyata. He had also worked for spreading awareness about Indian history, issues in the Indian Constitution and Indian economic policies.

He was groomed by prof Dharampal ( source wikipedia)

After viewing this vid tried to find about macaulay from wikipedia left goose bumps to read these lines there which are from history books. My view was right in college the British had their plans. so here goes under.

 Minute on Indian Education, delivered in 1835. It reads,

“ It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

Macaulay was Secretary to the Board of Control under Lord Grey from 1832 until 1833. After the passing of the Government of India Act 1833, he was appointed as the first Law Member of the Governor-General's Council. He went to India in 1834. He served on the Supreme Council of India between 1834 and 1838. He introduced English education in India through his famous minute of February 1835.

. He called an educational system that would create a class of anglicised Indians who would serve as cultural intermediaries between the British and the Indians. 

Macaulay succeeded in implementing ideas previously put forward by Lord William Bentinck, the governor general since 1829. Bentinck favored the replacement of Persian by English as the official language, the use of English as the medium of instruction, and the training of English-speaking Indians as teachers. He was inspired by utilitarian ideas and called for "useful learning." Macaulay convinced the Governor-General to adopt English as the medium of instruction in higher education, from the sixth year of schooling onwards, rather than Sanskrit or Persian then used in the institutions supported by the East India Company.

  By doing so, Macaulay wanted to "educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother tongue" and thus, by incorporating English, he sought to "enrich" the Indian languages so "that they could become vehicles for European scientific, historical, and literary expression".

 Macaualay's preference for the English language was based on his view of the local languages as "poor and rude" and on his belief that the body of writing available in Sanskrit and Arabic was no match for the scholarship available in English. He famously stated in his "Minute on Indian Education" (1835): "all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgments used at preparatory schools in England." His final years in India were devoted to the creation of a Penal Code, as the leading member of the Law Commission.

The term "Macaulay's Children" is used to refer to people born of Indian ancestry who adopt Western culture as a lifestyle, or display attitudes influenced by colonisers. It is used as a pejorative term, and the connotation is one of disloyalty to one's country and one's heritage. This frame of mind or attitude is also referred to as .Macaulayism

Macaulay held the indigenous culture of the Indian peoples in low esteem and saw his as a civilizing mission: "We must at present do our best to form a class of persons Indian in blood and colour but English in tastes, in opinion, in morals, and in intellect," Macaulay declared.

There is another reference i came to read here under from differnt source make me enlighted lot more with historical facts.

In the Round- table conference in 1931, Mahatma Gandhi in one of his speeches said, "The beautiful tree of education was cut down by you British. Therefore today India is far more illiterate than it was 100 years ago." Immediately, Philip Hartog, who was a parliamentarian stood up and said, "Mr.Gandhi, it is we who have educated the masses of India. And therefore you must take back your statement and apologise or prove it." Gandhiji said he would prove it. But the debate did not continue for lack of time. Later one of his followers, Shri Dharampal, went to the British museum and examined the reports and archives. He published a book "The Beautiful Tree" where this matter has been discussed in great detail. By 1820, the British had already destroyed the financial resources that supported our educational system- a destruction that they had been carrying out for nearly twenty years. But still the Indians persisted in continuing with their system of education. So, the British decided to find out the intricacies of this system. Therefore a survey was ordered in 1822 and was conducted by the British district collectors. In the survey it was found that the Bengal presidency had 1 lakh village schools, in Madras there was not a single village without a school, in Bombay, if the village population was near 100, the village had a school. Teachers as well as students of all castes were in these schools. The Brahmins accounted 7% to 48% of the teachers, and the rest of the teachers in any district, came from other castes. Further all children had their education in their mother tongue.

The equivalent of the present day primary education lasted 4 to 5 yrs. We all know that it is universal primary education that is important for taking the nation ahead, not just a few getting higher education. The British administrators admired the dedication and capacity of the Indian teachers. By the time the students came out of the schools they had acquired the capacity to be competitive, and to understand and have proper insight into their own culture. One Mr.Bell, a Christian missionary in Madras took the Indian system of education back to England, and introduced it there. Until then, only the children of the nobles were given education there and he started education for the masses in England. So, we gather that it is from India that the British adopted the system for educating the masses. (source The destruction of indian educational system)

I am not expressing my view on the present educational system in India prevailing,nor expressing my opinion but its voice of a common person who strongly believe to make a better citizens of India  with freedom of becoming what ever he wants, not bounded to only  few fields like engineer, doctor ,  accountant  . It is certainly high time to decide what we need for our children to build a nation which once upon a time was hub to deliver knowledge to the world, this peninsula used to give genius people to the world. can we not revive ourselves?

with my best wishes