Reforms at the shortest can be defined as the improvement by making changes. Thus a reformative move can only be said made when the change is for improvement. To carry out reformation through scrutiny, inspection, assessment and proposals are to be made and then pondered over. When it gets a complete green signal, then alone are the measures put to practice and thus so on. Reformation thus can’t simply begin in the after-math of a disaster, that too, by a one-point resolution.
The postponement of the examination session from October-November to march, in no manner can be called a reformatory move. The decision, not even a proposal, was simply issued by the cabinet by a press-release, ‘exams were postponed to March’. Thus scrutiny of this statement itself says how reform-neutral it is. It simply is an unwanted delay of six months to the various academic sessions and is deemed and destined to yield no positive result.
The reforms are supposed to be a change for the positive. If the change has to be initiated, it should either be for good or should be not conducted at all, especially when the topic concerned is education. Lets make a scrutiny. Let’s try to assess what will March session do and what the reformation ought do;
–> The examination pattern is going to be the same.
–> There will be mug up of the prescribed topics.
–> There will be the same sale and purchase of examination guides, notes, probable questions and answers.
–> There will be no inside understanding of the topics but an exam oriented study.
–> The focus throughout will b eon questions and answers and why not, the examination pattern is going to be the same after all!
–> There will be a strict under-syllabus work.
–> Students will put the four months to no good use, they will mug up in the fifth month, vomit the same on the exam sheet and as soon will forget.
–> They will be promoted to the succeeding classes and the process shall go on and on and on.
HOW ACTUALLY THE REFORMATION OUGHT TO BE:
–>The primary objective of reformation, specially in our context ought to be making education, educative.
–> Learning happens to be a constructive phenomenon to mugging up. While the former is for a lifetime and sustains across generation the latter is the matter of days and hours.
–> Reformation is to cultivate creativity. It is to generate a human capital full of ideas and innovations and not 9am-4pm working machines.
–> It’s about robust activity, teaching vigour and developing personalities.
–> It is the making of such courses that induce a person into knowing himself and locating his potentials, thus going by the path that suits him and not running in the direction of majority.
–>Reformation in education calls for the need of mentors and not teachers. What a student needs is not spoon feeding it but is direction. A student needs to be only mentored, the rest of the path itself him and educates him.
–> Reformation is helping the students to be themselves the milestone of reformation.
A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE:
In terms of number the engineering population of our country far exceeds that of the United States yet in terms of working we lag far behind them! Why? Because ours are literate engineers and theirs are educated. Eight semester exams and an engineer is manufactured here Eight months of mug-up and 40 months of whatever you like to do! The Americans on the other hand believe in making practical engineers, who work with instruments and not on practical notebooks! Irony, how can notebooks be practical! What are thus our engineers? More than half of them earning their bread from non-Engineering professions and the very little practising engineering from 9am-5pm engineering clerks!
This is the difference between the literate person and the educated one. If reformation is actually sought and not the reformation word mocked, then such moves should be taken that will turn the former like the latter. Seems, the need of the hour is to correct our definitions and act to their expectations and make reforms the way they ought been marked.
“We shall over come someday…” —-Mehak Dhaar
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