WHY THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IS ROTTING IN INDIA.

Recently, we wish to introduce Japanese language as one more foreign in the Indian schools. We have visited lot of schools and colleges. The truth is many schools don’t have foreign language. The funny part is under foreign the schools are teaching Hindi and Sanskrit. French is one language that is prominent. Japanese language has many advantages. Japan is the second largest economy. In India, there is huge demand for the Japanese language professionals. The supply is very limited.

The students wants to learn the foreign language, the parents wants their children to learn the foreign language. But the institutions are resisting to introduce the Japanese . Why?. I personally spoke to many head of the institutions. My assessment is, it is not the students who need to be trained or teach. First, It is the head of the institute need to be trained. Most of the head of the institute don’t know the out side world. They are moulding the students the way they are rather than the way the society demands. They are king inside the campus and they want to be like that. Their ego did not allow them. I can call it as ‘blind arrogance’.

Secondly the teachers, most of the teachers are pathetically poor in terms of knowledge. The teachers know only the text book. Out side that nothing. Apart from text book the teacher don’t know anything. Their own justification is that what the schools wants. The result at the end of the year. The result at SSLC/Matriculation and Higher Secondary Public exam. If any body has vision and ideas beyond that. No. The crooked system is producing the crooked product.

Where the change has to come? The change has to come from the top – the head of the institutions. If the head don’t have the vision, the system is doomed.

I moved to the colleges. Where it is still worse. Some times the even faculty don’t know what they are teaching. I have seen students are not interested in attending the lecturer class. Even the students say it is waste of time. The Management department, the lecture, who did not worked in any company teaching about business. The faculty who did not go to market and meet any customer are teaching marketing management. The faculty did not mange any branch and responsibly for any branch sales are teaching about leadership qualities.

A lecture who did not see any shop floor at all teaching Toyota Production System / Lean management concept in the class room. I think it is a joke. It is every where.