There are very little things right with the education system in India.
The education should be such that it helps people get a livelihood and increase quality of life. But Indian system at school level teaches only to cram up books and facts, which will seldom directly give them a job when out of school. It helps them only to take admission in further courses. Abnormally high percentages are now a norm at senior secondary/12th level.
After withdrawing courses in sex-education, today a school in Mumbai prohibited girls and boys touching in schools, including handshakes and hugs.
I miss the point. Why highlight the difference between sexes, when the whole world acknowledges equal opportunity & equal responsibility between men and women? Why distract young minds into thinking awkward dos and don’ts when they should be thinking studies?
Sex education that could equip the young generation to protect themselves, in a nation with one of the highest number of AIDS patient and still growing, was withdrawn from curriculum in the name of culture. And now this regressive act of highlighting the girl-boy difference.
There are debates on medium of instruction, culture, and conservative edicts … come on…does no body care about education here….
2 comments:
I totally agree with you.
Infact sometimes I don't understand,what is THAT culture .. Indians cribs so much ???
Isn't it the same place (or culture) which used to have child marriage at one point of time .
There was a lot to be considered, not all were happy with that decision.
Agreed that there are some fanatics who would have linked it with culture and stuff (for their personal gain ofcourse) but most of them were afraid of the rising obscenities. We (Indians) are still to understand what freedom means. Freedom does not only mean doing whatever one likes, but also to understand and accept the limits. Freedom is not 'Free'.
I do not agree to the step that was taken for the particular problem at hand, but the alternatives were tedious and time-consuming. And our government does not visualize for anything more than 5 yrs. They want, after all, to come to power again and for that they choose short term solutions.
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