May I add an outsider's perspective to the debate?
Education, as we understand in our country, is still perceived as nothing more than a passport for a job. Period. A mere rite of passage to be got over so that you can start earning a living. More fancy the credentials, higher the earning potential. If the education has been finished in an ivy league institute in India or abroad, the bid will be in dollars or euros. Next time you are in the midst of a group of parents with kids applying for undergrad courses, please step back and listen quietly to the discussion. It is amazing how most of it is all about "scope" and second guessing which sector will do well and with what pay offs! Who made the maximum placement offers? What was the size of the comp packages?
But, mercifully, it is changing. Many parents today speak of offering opportunities for exploration to their kids, which those parents could never have when they were young. Often you hear candid admissions from 50 plus professionals that they are in wrong professions and their true callings were elsewhere. So the ideal of education for its own sake will be realized when every student sees education as a means to pursue her or his passion and not as an entry ticket into a profession or job that maximizes earnings.
For this we must help students discover their strengths, talents and gifts early on and actively encourage them to pursue an education that will actualize those talents Someone with a gift and inclination for art should not be coding software consoling herself that she can anyway purse art as a hobby over weekends.When education is undertaken in pursuit of one's passion, it becomes a life long quest and an end in itself. It is a difficult ideal, no doubt. But then ideals by definition are never easy
Since education most often decides what we do for a living, here is a must-watch YouTube video on a book I read recently that offers strategies to align our avocations to our interests by finding fulfilling work. (I am still not able to figure out how to pronounce the author's name though ☺) Hope you enjoy the talk!
Thanks for your time and mind space
Warm Regards
Sridhar Srinivasan
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Prabhakar Waghodekar <waghodekar@rediffmail.com> wrote:
Professor Agarwal is absolutely right "man is the weakest link" in the living organisms but endowed with intellect that helps him to create man-made world. I reproduce my earlier e-mail:
""The objective of education, i.e. survival, like that of any living creature is well understood by human beings from the time immemorial. Only tools and techniques are got upgraded as one generation sits on the giant shoulders of the preceding one.
On the other hand education and training is done by all living creature save human beings only as a natural process of evolution that is not the case for human race that has instituted their own systems of (formal) education through academic institutes. Have you heard anytime that tigers are trained and educated in accredited schools?
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Subject: Re: [MTC Global] [The Last Big Debate of 2015] What's wrong witheducation for education's sake?RESPECTED LEARNED SIR,On stand alone basis, left to himself, Man is most unskilled, weakest living species on this planet. Left to himself, at birth,he is good for nothing. on his own he can`t EVEN breathe ( Nurse has thump its chest for him ti initiate the process ofbreathing, he can`t drink, he can`t eat, he can`t even sit he can`t stand he can`t defend) He is totally incapable of surviving ifleft on his own. in this comparison animal is much better.Man has to acquire all the life skills from the Society only.God has given life and not living to man . Man has to learn living by himself. Here societyhelps him.Let us define role of education / teachers from this perspectiveNow, I leave the stage for my learned colleagues and take a seat in audience.WITH REGARDS.Dr M R Aggarwal PhD
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On 1 January 2016 at 06:00, Raghavendra Talneru <tsrsagar@gmail.com> wrote:Very relevant questions. It is the responsibility of all the educationists of this country to think seriously and respond.
On 31-Dec-2015 3:38 pm, "Prof. Bholanath Dutta" <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:Are schools and universities meant to be making sure their students have the skills to succeed in an increasingly competitive jobs market, or is the purpose of schooling slightly more open ended? Does it need to have a purpose at all, beyond instilling knowledge - and a passion to keep learning - into pupils?--
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