Qualitative Higher Education: Mantra for New India

Qualitative Higher Education: Mantra for New India

Dear Readers, I have a simple question; however seems very complex to answer, 

What is the Focal Point of today's education: Getting Educated or Graduated?

Education must provide “life-building, human-making and character making” assimilation of ideas to develop an integrated person.

As Swami Vivekananda says “Education is the manifestation of the perfection already present in man”. 

  Every year 5th September, the birth Anniversary  of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Second President  of India, being celebrated as the Teachers day in  India, we the teaching fraternity introspects  asking questions to ourselves to get most reliable  and practical answers: 

Are we really educating? or 

graduating? 

What is my answer?   Why? 

How I can make effort to change this system?

India has been in need of teachers qualitatively educated, imbibed with morals, and professional ethics in higher education sectors to motivate the students to venture into the field to provide solutions to real life problems.

Teaching with basics to higher level generates the curiosity in the students to further their interest in collecting more relevant literature, about the history, mathematics, and statistics of the domain of study. Consistently pursuing this, knowledge gets processed as skills.

The practical’s and field visits aid the students in learning to Apply, to Analyze, to evaluate and to create in real world. There are few teachers silently working in this arena; however, their number is very small. Hence, India require many more such TEACHERS, self-motivated, genuine, determined, polite, unbiased, down to earth, believing one’s own ability, motivator, who can churn out millions of students, those can contribute immensely in building a positive world.

Quality Education: derivative of contact hours of teachers with the students. The qualitative contact hours between students and the teachers tremendously improves learning capabilities of the students. Teachers must invest more time in teaching, counseling first. It is imperative for the teachers to engage the classes qualitatively and the highly qualified teachers of the institute should provide quality time to the students in the class, laboratory and on field visits, during the academic year, imparting them with the knowledge to refine the skills to face challenges ahead.

Quality education to students can be delivered, if students, teachers, governance machinery work in synergy, like three legs of a tripod. If any one of the leg cripples, tripod cannot stand. Parents and local industries / Govt. organizations / NGOs voluntarily joining this movement brings in the transformation changes.

We the Teachers must take to our heart and soul “Teaching-Learning” as a Mission and make all the efforts to realize this mission. This can happen only, if we the teachers rise to the occasion to provide qualitative education which enables the students to learn, unlearn and relearn to acquire more and more Knowledge of the domain and rest in general to face the challenges impeccably.