Season 3:
Education: Role of
Academicians :)
And so the question ensues: Expectations
of change from whom?
Usually people say, so what,
in every nation conditions or problems kindred to this subject either subsist or
the system is muddled up. But tell me one thing, is it necessary for any
economy to copycat occasionally or always! Why can't one introduce a new
concept which is More Effective & Less Bureaucratic?
If someone comes out &
officially declare that Education Sector is an 'Industry' to make Juicy Profits,
verily, I won't refute. Never Ever. And would undoubtedly accept it. But when
one starts categorizing, segregating on the basis of that, then I have a
problem, Indeed!
I understand, there exists numerous
vested interests & concerns of stake holders, that includes Print/Electronic
Media (revenue related) in this sector. Means coaching centres for one exam targeting
even children who are hardly in 6th
grade. Is this justified? Or let's say Academicians aspiration wanting to join Institutes
post retirement either as Directors or Deans or as part of the Academic or
Governing Council discussing the Institutes Balance Sheets. Fair Enough! But like a slave, serving
those, who holds a bottle & stick in their one hand & gun in another! Can such
Academicians bring change? Or those whose backbones have become so stiff, don't know why (Robots are far better),
that instead of understanding student grievances, they are more interested in
playing Bureaucracy, can they bring
change or could they even be considered as good teachers? Or their aspiration of
becoming OSDs to guard existing policies without any longing for transforming
it?
Now,
it's not a blanket assumption, but sadly, the environment is more populated
with such figures. But it is also not a myth that: "It's immensely arduous to find a good
Teacher".
Obviously, one can't expect a
guy who is trained in C++ to design circuits. He has to be first trained in
Embedded/VLSI tech. for 6M - Year. Thence, I am not amalgamating Schooling or Training
with Education & then
categorizing & stamping the identity as the dependable ones.
It's a general understanding
in the Education Industry that one can lose any Academician in the midterm as one
can find many Asst./Asso. Profs. in the market, anytime. But they can't take
any chance losing any student NOT
because the so called Academicians want any student to complete the whole term,
but more on the ground that they CANNOT
afford to lose the subsequent semesters FEES from that student. And even if
they lose so, it's not the Institute but the Student who is more affected. Ok!
Did this pattern help in changing the conditions of many parts on Terra who
are/were facing economic/ideological/civil crises or execution of any sustainable
diplomatic resolutions?
I have the highest regards for
teachers, good administrators & academicians. As I know only they have
power to change the world. But they also need to change their outlook & stagnant
ideology while defining Credibility. Remember Kahn & his orgies or Pachauri?
Thence, is this a whole network
or nexus, good or bad, you decide. I know, I am standing alone. But as long as
this mindset would proliferate & I know which would from corporate to communities,
occasionally, good words from my end would always be pondered upon it.
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