Transforming Education Whitepaper

Dear Friends:

Below is the link to the whitepaper on Improving the State of Education in India.

http://tinyurl.com/Improving-State-Of-Education

Kindly review it and share it with your child's school administrators, fellow parents and help create awareness about the current state of education in India.

This whitepaper is being submitted to Department of Education in MHRD and Smriti Irani, Minister, HRD for their actions.

It is very critical that in this coming decade, India transforms both access to education and its effectiveness. This is key to jobs, economic growth and poverty elimination.

Any additional views, please submit them as a comment to this post.

Thanks again for your participation!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta more

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Ranbir Sinha (Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

1) We have to redesign the curriculum, textbooks, etc. and throw out the junk - Everything in the syllabus must be questioned by a panel of practical and successful people. Throw out anything that is not useful. Prepare them for work and job. The kids have too much to memorize and too little time to think and understand - it is an unnecessary torture that produces no great inventors or leaders. 2) As many members suggested - give the kids nutritious food, enough time to play, teach first-aid and hygiene, moral values, helpfulness, social service. If you do not do that, you will have millions of weak, wimpy, young people with paper degrees and no jobs. Why do we ruin their lives with a poorly designed primitive system ? more

Mar 14

Kishan Jaiswal

Our education system need full revamping..I have put together few suggestions below: 1. Education for children should be limited to basics and be interactive. This will need huge investment and is worth it. 2. School and college education need teaching in a way that enables student to connect their learning with real life so that they can appreciate its significance. This will require huge investment in teachers training, redesigning of syllabus and exam pattern, and building education infrastructure. 3. Higher education should focus more on developing skill to apply the knowledge than simply asking pupil to answer 5 out of 10 questions. more

Mar 14

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Mar 14

Nitin Mahul (Aspiring positve change for india)

Physical training ,exercises ,sports,along with self defence trainings daily should be made compulsory for at least half an hour daily for all the School ..The children now a days are getting obese because of lack of physical exercises..This will result in a healthy tomorrow..Also the girls uniforms should be changed for all the schools..It should be something like t shirt and lower so that it helps the physical activities.. This will also get rid of the skirt culture in the highly expensive schools and would also look decent.. more

Feb 17

Ranbir Sinha (Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

We have too many textbooks with 50% useless/wrong knowledge. We need to update the curriculum based on usefulness and accuracy, reduce pages and numbers of textbooks, go 50% video based learning, and teach more practical classes, encourage thinking & innovation to give the next generation a balanced education. The current system tortures the students minds, and creates unemployable youth, ruining India's future and we must change it. If the Government wants to change it, I am willing to help. Regards Dr. R. Sinha more

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