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It can't be more despicable to live in a system that only fails you every moment you are at it. Sadly as I say this I don't have many people by my side to back my claims. They in fact by all means accept it and some others claim it an exceptional platform to shape their lives. Indeed, in essence it is meant to be exactly that, if only it was more efficacious and adequate for the world we live in today. I speak of the inexorable educational system, that knows not of 'change'. There were once those times when our predecessors shunned the English system and considered it as a taboo for the revered cultural teachings of India, and now are the times when we must move on, but yet we want to hanker to something when the status quo demands a different deal.

We have the former Economics Professor as the Prime Minister of our country on his second term now, however, Education doesn's look as bright. I'm speaking of those numerous teaching shops that famously claim to inculcate all it takes to be skilled and qualified for the right job. There's so much universality in their language that you feel you're under an umbrella Education Bazaar. Nonetheless things don't look so dingy anymore. The Right to Education Bill which apparently existed in the Constitution is believed to have been passed by the Government and certain other proposals have been put forth, like having a central board that would decide on curricula, making board exams optional, having private players participate more vividly in the education process and also calling in foreign univeristies to have campuses in India. Of course a Stanford, Harvard, Oxford sounds as much tempting as eluding. Let's not deny that there are going to be plenty of objections from various areas concerning foreign universities setting up campuses here, primarily the inevitable question of reservations will be mooted. The revamp of education per se will have a lot of conflicts before it comes into any real effect but what we've lost out on today, can't be undone. However, it must be seen that educational reforms take their time to show effects, perhaps a decade long, so if we don't do anything now, the already pending period will only have to be stretched longer.

The method of teaching and evaluation has become so hackneyed and oddly so, we've grown immune to it. How many of us really question the pedagogical methods employed to imparting education? How much of what we study holds relevance to what must be known? We're trying to squash too many things into one bottle, aren't we? We're all wearing blinkers and set goals that would give us good grades and thus good jobs. It brings me to ask do we subconciously show contempt for dialectical methods just as the way the Greeks once did when Socrates tried to develop them? Can't we do away with mindless memorization and concentrate greater on developing a creative way of learning. We're a a good population of young people who have tremendous potential to serve the nation and largely the world if only we got ourselves the right start in education. A few early years of correct moves will result in commendable leaps in the future. We have plenty of players in the private field who shell out quite an amount of money on higher Technical education, we need them to invest in primary education. The reality lies in the roots, we need them to go deep down, hold on to rocks that would stand the heat of all times, for that's where lies the the secret behind the huge tree that speaks of its productive fruits.