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In the modern world education is not just a requirement and moral value, but also an expensive market product. One of the major characteristics of modern education is the directly proportional relationship between the age of educational institution and its value. While other market products value innovation and complete change and modernization of the portfolio, education values proposition based on the conservative and tested system that is checked and evaluated through years. Thus, when we talk about modern education, we assume combination of technological developments and conservatives of old and traditional educational institutions.
Let us look at such sound names as Harvard, Oxford or Cambridge. The name is the prestige that a lot of people trying to get and this reputation makes these universities attract the best intellectuals from all over the globe. Educational system puts a lot of efforts to keep traditions and conservative elements of the educational process.
On the other hand, progress makes it a necessity to implement new technological advancements available on the market to enhance learning process and take the most out of innovative educational solutions. This contrast and cooperation of modern technologies and traditional education can be evidenced even in the architecture of universities: when you enter the old buildings with long history and see computers and systems that coordinate and direct education.
Anyway, modern education as a market product offers a lot of newer and less traditional universities that position themselves as fresh and innovative alternative to the old and “stagnated” institutes that are no longer the best. These newborn educational systems create significant competition to the traditional education and, consequently, contribute towards generating of natural competition and progress in modern education. One of the negative consequences of this competition is commercialization of the education and growing price for good name that will open doors to the career development
Warm Greetings of the Day Ladies and Gentlemen!
As you all know we have gathered today to discuss our Indian Education System and what all prospects it holds for our students and of course also for the students flying in from abroad. If we trace its roots, we will realize that our modern education system is not actually our own, but has been taken from the west. The Indian modern-day education in India came with the Britishers who were accompanied with the Christian missionaries. What these Christian missionaries did was that they founded various schools for imparting secular education to the Indian natives and also to draw them towards Christianity.
If we were to go back to the ancient history of the Indian education system, we would realize that it was founded based on the gurukula system wherein the emphasis was laid down on the direct relationship between the guru or what we call in modern times the teacher and his sisya or pupil. This form of education system laid stress on living an austere life and the study revolved around gaining the knowledge of Vedic literature. It was largely dedicated to the teaching of philosophy, theology and philology. It was an all-inclusive education system branching out from spirituality and philosophy to the study of the art of war and stressing on good moral values and a healthy lifestyle.
Education was imparted on the basis of Varna. Both the women folk and sudras were deprived of the education system and vocational courses, if any, were meant for the old members of the community and families. During the medieval period, the ‘madarsa’ system prevailed which much dominated the educational system at that time. The schools were largely madarsas and pathshalas, which were functional, under the supervision of the maulvis, chiefly for the Muslim students and under the supervision of the Brahmin priests for Hindu students respectively.
There was seriously no change observed in the thinking of the people towards education during that period mainly because both the Hindus and the Muslims were still holding on to their traditional outlook and laid emphasis on philosophical as well as religious education instead of secular education.
However, we should also not forget that it’s only post 17th century that secular education gained a huge impetus in Western Europe and it was not until 19th century that the idea of scientific knowledge came to the forefront.
Whatever the case is, the present education system in India is still not fortified enough to provide its youth with enough job opportunities. The education system is still confined to its classroom teaching and is not well equipped to offer its students a great practical learning experience so much so that when they complete their education they are able to earn their livelihood without facing any obstacles. The education system needs to remain grounded to reality and concomitant with the present market demand so that the students can become revenue generators and not a liability on their immediate family. This is all from my side.
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