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Quest for literacy and education had started percolating down below
the poverty line. A lower stratum, which represents majority of our
society, is showing a healthy sign in this direction. Reality of
life and bitter experiences of illiteracy has made people realize
the importance of education. Invariably all parents aspire to educate
their children to their level best, irrespective of their level of
illiteracy and financial condition. Instances has been noticed where
parents are ready to part with major portion of their merge income
to educate their children.
This was the time when a proper welfare based education system would
have played an important role in quenching the thirst of knowledge
of our masses. But unfortunately commercialization has finds it way
into the Indian educational system. By virtue of which the cost of
education is going up and quality of education is coming down.
We see that schools with commercial objectives have mushroomed across
the country as to pacify the educational quest of the poor and ignorant
people. These institutes capitalize on parents, whose sole desire
is to educate their children but they are not capable of selecting
the right institute for their children nor they are aware of requirements
and demand of today’s competitive world. Their dream is to
see their children well established in life. They feel as if their
dream is being realized, when they see their child moving ahead towards
a school dressed up in a school uniform with a bag full of books.
The much cherished dreams turns into a nightmare when the child shows
poor and unexpected results in the grade tenth exam, which is being
conducted by an external board. This triggers a series of bad experiences,
which shatter the dream of parents, inculcates frustration in the
student. Both parents and students are left unguarded, unequipped
in today’s world of competitive livelihood.
Similar situations are being witnessed when it comes to professional
courses, vocational training centers and polytechnics. We see that
professional courses are being taken up by our youth like a fashion
or a fad, where temperament, inclination and orientation towards
the particular profession play a least important role. One should
not be astonished to see a youth having graduated in humanities and
post graduation in law attending three-month computer course at a
one-room computer institute in the corner of the street. At this
so called computer institute he is being taught basics of cobal and
photon languages by a tutor who has graduated just last year from
the same institute. The student has opted for this course as he has
been unsuccessful in getting employment so far and now he wish to
try his luck with a three month course in computer as he has been
told that there is lot of scope in field of computers.
Thus we see that there is a quest for knowledge and education on
one end and scarcity of quality economical education on the other.
Parents and students aspire to be successful in life by way of education
but are not capable of making right selections at right time.
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