CURRENT EDUCATION – OUT OF ORDER?

 Que - In the current scenario of competitions and national level entrances, Einstein would have failed in his entrance exams? Analyzing the current rush of students in entrance exams and increasing difficulty level of competitions, you are supposed to write an article. (Also highlighting differences between practical learning and mugging up books and effects of later one on a student's creative thinking.) 

Topic: CURRENT EDUCATION – OUT OF ORDER?

 There’s a well-known quote that a fish can’t be judged by its ability to climb fish. No selection suited here more than this. The education system currently prevailing in India, the competitive rat race haul is all about one person knowing every bookish knowledge while fine arts is considered a hobby or just a tryout of a failed person.

 In my perspective, Einstein would have failed in these entrance exams because Einstein was a

person with independent thoughts, who had a spark of curiosity, who was more of discovering things on his own and unraveling the hidden truths of physics. He could never be the person who would go to study all subjects without interest, cramming them endlessly, and using copied logics given by mentors. He was a person of thoughts, interests; he would find out about the things he was curious about and not the topics syllabus instructed. In the current education system, entrance exams focus on completing the question list, while Einstein was a person who would go to the extreme depth of the topic even if it is more profound than a sea bottom. He was a person to examine the whole sea, even after finding the pearl, he probed to reveal more secrets of the sea and become acquainted with each pearl. Needless to say every concept of physics is not less than a pearl and physics is all a deep sea. 

Major chunk of the current tech macrocosm does steal the pearl found by someone else using prefixed knowledge, repetitive logic patterns; only a few people away from these can start a journey to find their pearl. The young generation now doesn’t comprehend to lead but to follow; they start doing what others are doing and never hunt for their piece of cake. They are even unaware of their passions, interests, and skills in pursuit of following the blinking world. We can’t generalize it for all but nonetheless majority counts. Practical learning is all about applying bookish concepts into real life and finding their true essence. It makes students learn skills, learn about one’s own interests. It gets rid of the fear of studying among students. 

Unfortunately, the current education system in India majorly focuses on cramming and mugging up things. Mugging up things only increases our vocabulary and never knowledge. Why do students sit and cram their answers, and why can’t they write them on their own? Why don't they remember things taught in class? Simply because visuals and practicality are rarely involved in studies. Education is not about words and books but experiments and experience. It’s the understanding to use a concept when required. The current state of affairs indicate that students are left with no enterprise to question the given concepts, they consider everything correct and conclude as what they are taught and never try to apply that concept practically, and even they are not inspired to do so. 

What students nowadays have started thinking is that education means learning and cramming preset syllabi in different classes and passing out. They are unaware that their education involves: 

•   Discovering facts on their own. 

•   Finding new principles. 

•   Questioning the directions given years ago. 

They need to realize that the people who gave all the laws in their textbooks were also humans no superior to them then. Even the current generation has boundless resources. Why can’t we make our laws, our theorems, why can’t we propose models ....WHY?? 

We need to realize that we are not robots who will only think and work as we programmed. Humans are considered all living beings as we can think, create, discover, invent, and all out of the box, even about the things we have never heard of. It would be combined efforts of all teachers, mentors, guardians to get students out of this vicious cycle of cramming and put them into a whole new space where they can run to find themselves. And Einstein, being a person who dropped out of school but still proposed his own laws and theories, would be the major inspiration for us.