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Debate on English education is a boon or bane for students

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English - a boon or Bane for students

The British ruled in India for a period of around 190 years. During this time, whether for their own benefit or not, they introduced a series of structural organizations in India that we still reap benefits from. Although it is argued that 190 years of foreign rule is too high a price to be paid for these, the fact that if not for them, these would have taken far too much time to enter into the Indian societies, cannot be denied. So what exactly did the British leave behind? A totally new system of education, law, administration and politics. Some scholars are of the opinion that India prospered at a faster rate after the British Raj than what it would have had if the British hadn’t introduced their superior ways. Others are of the opinion that civilization was suppressed under the Rule. Be that as it may, the fact that we have inherited many aspects of our present institutional structure from our colonisers, is undeniable.

Some scholars are of the opinion that India prospered at a faster rate after the British Raj than what it would have had if the British hadn’t introduced their superior ways. Others are of the opinion that civilization was suppressed under the Rule. Be that as it may, the fact that we have inherited many aspects of our present institutional structure from our colonisers, is undeniable.The basic and perhaps the most prominent legacy that the British have left behind is their language. “Of all the legacies of the Raj, none is more important than the English language and the modern school system. That is, if you leave out cricket!” said former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in one of his speeches at The Oxford University. India is home to at least 200 to 300 million English speakers, potentially the largest English speaking population in the world. The inheritance of language and, to some extent, the university system of education, has put India on the global map to a great extent and has resulted in billions of dollars’ worth of earnings for the country. Indian citizens trained in their respective fields get better opportunities internationally and are preferred over their counterparts from other countries because of their ability to communicate their work and ideas in English.

The development of this thought process can be traced way back to the British themselves. Initially, when the English East India Company set foot in India, their main aim was to only trade and not to educate the people. Their focus was in educating only a certain mass of people from the higher classes who could be “Indian in blood and colour but English in taste”, the ones who would serve as interpreters between the administration and the common people, popularly called the “downward filtration theory”. This is where the idea of superiority of people who can communicate in English started.

Although credit can be given to our colonizers for giving us the English language and getting us on the global map, the way the Indian society came to accept the language is still potentially problematic. Undermining talent for its inability to express itself in the so-called “superior language” leads to its gradual fading away. Even as we have come a long way from being enslaved by “the English”, we are still enslaved by “English”. This certainly will take a very long time to go away, but it is safe enough to say that an effective start has definitely been made in that direction and the day will come when we no longer let our language-based idea of superiority take over our sense of fair judgement.

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