The document discusses the history and structure of India's education system. It notes that India traditionally had a Gurukul system where students lived with their teacher until lessons were complete. This was replaced by a British colonial system focused on subjects like math and science in classrooms. Currently, India has a four-level primary/secondary school structure divided into standards. The document stresses that quality primary education is important for a child's development and future standard of living, but that quality primary education is lacking particularly in rural villages. It proposes developing a platform to solve issues like ensuring quality education for all, focusing on skills, rewarding creativity, reducing gaps between rural and urban education systems.
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1. Title:Educationforall
Summary:
The historyof Indianeducationhasitsrootsto the ancientageswhere theyfollowedthe Gurukul
system– a systemwhere the studentsresidedinthe house of theirteacheruntil the teacherfeltthathe
has impartedall thathe could.The subjectstaughtvariedfromSanskrittoScripturestoMathematicsto
Metaphysicsandthe knowledge attainedwouldbe passedontothe future generations.However,this
systemwaschangedduringthe Colonial erawhenthe Britishsetupschoolsthatfollowedacurriculum
confinedtosubjectssuchasMathematics,Science etc.While the ancientsystemincludedmore
interactionwiththe nature,the modernsystemwasmore classroomoriented.
the school systemin India has fourlevels:lowerprimary(age 6 to 10), upperprimary (11 and12), high
(13 to 15) and highersecondary(17 and18). The lower primary school is dividedintofive “standards”,
upperprimary school intotwo,high school intothree andhighersecondaryintotwo.
The importance of primaryschoolingwithrespecttothe overall developmentof achildandcareers in
future cannotbe understated.Infactit wouldnotbe wrong to saythat the qualityandquantityof
primaryeducationthata childreceivesplaysanimportantrole indetermininghisfuture standardof
living.The lackof qualityprimaryeducationparticularlyinsmall villagesof the countrywhichhouses
more than 70% of Indianrural populationisworryinginsofar as sucha situationwillleadtomore
inequalityandwideningof gapbetweenrural IndiaandUrbanIndia.
Our teamis initiatingtodevelopaplatformtosolve these keyissues
We aimto achieve:
1.qualityeducationforall
2. Focus on skill based education
3.Reward creativity, original thinking, research and innovation
4. Get smarter people to teach
5. Implement massive technology infrastructure for education
6. Re-define the purpose of the education system
7. remove gap between rural and urban education system