Dear friends,
I am excited to share with you that I authored
a book on educational leadership and life leadership titled, “School
Leadership: Faculty First, Students Second, And Institutions Third.” I dedicated this book to Megastar Chiranjeevi who wrote foreword for this book. Here is
the free book chapter. I would appreciate if you could share your thoughts
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Education is more than a
Religion in India
“The principle goal of education is to
create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating
what other generations have done.” — Jean Piaget
Indian education system is widely
discussed across India but it is hardly addressed with practical solutions. There
are innumerable articles published on it but most of them underscore from the
perspective of problems, not solutions. Unfortunately, the Indian education is
still in doldrums. In this context, we will discuss the challenges and
solutions to make it to relevant and vibrant to ensure employability,
employment, empowerment and enlightenment. First, we will discuss educational leadership.
Educational
Leadership
Educational leadership is a
collaborative process of leading various stakeholders including students,
educators, parents and external bodies to ensure quality education to students
to build next generation of leaders. At the academic level, it ensures blending
curricular and extracurricular activities to shell out students as complete
personalities to encounter life challenges successfully. It ensures employability, employment,
empowerment and enlightenment.
Indian
versus Overseas Education
In developed countries especially
western countries, the students who have the requisite qualifications,
intelligence and ability are only allowed to pursue education and courses. The
educators are passionate who do remarkable research in their areas of interests,
and add an immense value to the students. The educational institutions are
ethical and follow the guidelines strictly. They are transparent and systematic
in their approaches, policies and practices. They innovate regularly with new teaching
tools and techniques. They emphasize both theory and practice where students
have the opportunity to understand and apply their knowledge effectively in the
real world scenario. When students ask
questions the educators are competent to respond to their questions since the educators
do research regularly. The students have access to quality resources. They
interact with other students who are equally brilliant and knowledgeable.
Hence, knowledge proliferation and transfer takes place quickly and
effectively. Employment opportunities are higher for students because the
educational institutions offer great knowledge, skills and abilities. The
industry is ready to absorb such students who are well equipped with both
knowledge and application. It makes easier for the industry to absorb students because
they are proactive with basic level of knowledge and expertise. Hence, overseas
education is relatively better than Indian education.
How
to Revamp Indian Education?
Indian education is not up to the
standards of global education but it has the basic standards and knowledge.
Currently it emphasizes 3 Rs ― reading,
writing and reproducing. To enhance quality education, there must be adequate emphasis
on theory and practice. The students must have passion, basic knowledge and intelligence.
The educators must be passionate about making a difference in the lives of
students with inclination for research and consultancy. The educational
institutions must be ethical, systematic and transparent. There must not be
management quota and capitation fee. There must be emphasis on both curricular
and extracurricular activities in the educational institutions.
Indian education system must reinvent
its teaching pedagogy. It must take risk to explore new ways of teaching
pedagogy and research. Although education is basically for enlightenment, it
must be for empowerment and employment to help people lead comfortable and
meaningful lives.
India is a less developed country with
the second largest population in the world. Hence, ensuring quality education
is a daunting task. However, it is possible if appropriate steps are taken by inviting
the intellectuals to restructure it. Above all, it requires an integrated
approach from all stakeholders including educational institutions, parents,
students, teachers, government and nonprofits to ensure quality education in
India.
Build Minds and Careers
Build minds to build careers.
When you build minds you can build careers of the students. It enlightens them to
find their own career paths. Show the light to enable them to find their own
paths to become trailblazers. Conventional cliché is to teach people how to
catch fish. The unconventional cliché is to show the people where the location
of the fish is because presently people are smart enough to learn the art of
catching fish.
Indians value education
more than money and religion. Every parent wants to provide better education to
their children to enable the latter to lead better lives. Hence, emphasize
building minds and careers in students.
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