1. To understand something in a real sense needs two things: growing experience and reasoning power with the growing age, termed as maturity and some things to be stored in brain, unconscious mind, back up like a computer memory, computer does not understand the meaning of a code. Cramming and rote leads to habit, the organs are so trained that without any thought process text pours out automatically.
2. For example, reciting a poem or prayer is not often understood- sensing the meanings of words- by the kids, but it can recite it any time, anywhere without putting any effort, but a natural flow of words. The meaning is probably at a later age.
3. Reciting trains tongue, voice, pitch, etc., that may have positive effect on both mind and health.
4.Reciting sharpens the wits.
5. It helps improving concentration of mind.
Understanding of the contents relates with the maturity, experience and growing age help improve the power of understanding. And this power improves many folds if one is habituated in younger age.
We are proud of Information Technology age and computer is expected to store many things in abundance so to say for infinite period. But are we sure that after say 500 or 1000 years the same data could be expored in a meaningful way through the technology then available? I am not sure. But reciting has made it a real life situation. There are several families devoted to certain Shashras like Vedas generation after generation through reciting the Shashras translating every thing pronunciation, text, meaning, etc., uninterrupted for thousand years.
Understanding is one of the outcomes of education and it accelerates if one is close to nature. In Western Education model, emphasis is laid on understanding. One of the reasons why Indian students shine in advanced countries is their traditional or cultural habit of reciting, rote learning.
Thus, rote learning and learning through understanding need to be looked into with proper perspective, treating them complimentary to each other keeping in mind that understanding follows rote.
MOOC and Flipped classroom concepts are already on anvil that encourage minimum number of classroom sessions only for interaction because of obvious reasons. We insist on one hand minimum 75% attendance (in some cases 90% or 100%) and on the other on Credit system. The education now has become a costly affair, beyond the reach of masses that constitute 70%-80% population. And the big question is why students are shying away from classes especially when the cost of education is not affordable? We need to resort in a big way to such models as disruptive innovating schools, e-learning, open and distributed learning, MOOC or Flipped classrooms.
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:30:11 +0530 "Prof. Bholanath Dutta"
>The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government had promised to improve things in government schools of Delhi. The first step in this direction seems to be deputy chief minister and education minister Manish Sisodia';s letter to the Union human resources development minister suggesting the no-detention policy be put on hold till other necessary changes are made in schools. Hindustan Times catches up with Sisodia about the rationality behind the decision.
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Why do you feel that the no-detention policy must go, at least for now?In our country, education is not about learning. Instead, it is about cramming and rote learning. Education, in its current form, is a test of children';s capabilities to remember things, not understand them. In such a scenario, the no-detention policy';s purpose is defeated.According to Right to Education activists, doing away with the no-detention policy is the easy way out that ends up harming children.I am in favour of the no-detention policy but only when education is about learning and not cramming. We, however, have failed to address this in our classrooms. All our systems, especially the process of taking exams, are geared towards making children remember things and not understand them.What needs to change?We have to look at our teacher training. We may have brought in a no-detention policy, but teachers are not trained according to this policy. They are still taught the method where you assess a student according to the marks she gets in an exam.How can the no-detention policy be successful if the one imparting education is not aligned with it? Did the text books change in line with the new policy? No they didn';t. We need to take a holistic view of where we are in terms of education as a whole. We can';t copy and paste in our schools, what has worked in other countries without first providing the basics.What can the Delhi government do in this regard?We are working on various plans. But I think it is very important to understand that education is not about human resources. Education does not mean developing resources. It means developing a humane society and yet we have a ministry for human resource and not education. Our aim will be to build a more humane society, of which human resources can be a part.
[Hindustan Times]
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