compare India's new education policy and Plato's education system?
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With the approval of the New Education Policy 2020 in July, India is all set to witness a much needed reformation in education, one that focuses on the essentials of learning in the present, while preparing students for a future they get to shape. The current system that has often been criticised to be rigid and redundant, focusing more on content and results, will now pave way for NEP that aims to encourage cognition and creativity. With its multidisciplinary approach, students will have the opportunities to innovate and adapt, allowing them to swiftly move between different interests and fields, enabling constant up-gradation of skills. The policy doesn’t just change education for students, but the board and facilitators too, thus restructuring the entire system to be more learner centred, based on the pillars of access, equity, quality, affordability, and accountability.
The last time the education policy was reformed before this, was in 1986. Despite the humungous changes across the world, with respect to learning, skills, technology and careers, India has been following the same education system for 34 years, while education polices across the world continued to change dynamically, thus leaving out students here with less leverage, as compared to their counterparts globally. With the new policies in place, this aperture is reduced, ensuring the knowledge and opportunities students receive here, are on par with global standards.
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The purpose of this study was to explore Plato?s basic educational system as advocated in The Republic and The Laws and to examine some of the similarities of the Platonic system of education and twentieth century concepts of public education in the United States. After determining the specific problem and its value to the writer and readers, the author studied the Platonic system of education through extensive library research. The Platonic system of education summarized and identified and then the author through extensive descriptive research tried to identify those similarities which were found in the United States educational system relative to the Platonic. Plato?s influence upon Western thought has been very great. It has been exerted in two main directions: 1. he stressed analysis and objective thought as he originated and developed the institution now called the Academy, and 2. He simultaneously held concern for the less objective as he philosophized about faith, visions, and mysticism to the extent of having influenced early growth of Christianity. Modern education is indebted to Plato. His ideas are pragmatic and selectively used in our educational system.