2. Key questions
What is education?
What was India’s education system in Pre-British era?
What Changes in education system made by Britishers?
What are the Challenges faced by Indian education
system?
• How can we overcome them ?
• Recommendations
4. What is education?-Class inputs
Current Dominant paradigm-Philosophy of life
• Money
1000 years back
• Social status
• Happiness
• Relationship
• Power
• Materialism and cultural capital
• Value of every single skill set
• Sweeper
Other aspects
• Degree
• Learning
• Facing the world
• Making the living
• Contribution to society
• Building the knowledge structure
5. What is education?
Change weapon
• Most powerful weapon to change the world
Education vs Learning
• Process of facilitating learning
Education vs Schooling
• Learners as objects
• Value add to life??
• Facts learning?
• Schooling-Objectification of learning
• Social disadvantages ignored
• Producing factorized products
6. What is education?
Education
• Kindle the spirit of inquisitiveness
• Replace empty mind with open one
• Social process
• Develop Potential of people
• Cooperative
• Inclusive
• Intelligence plus character is goal of
education-Martin Luther
7. Type of Education
Based on content
• Fact based Education
• Physical Education
• Value education
• Skill Education
• Financial education
• Moral Education
• Political education
Based on mode
• Formal
• Structured environment
• Objective- degree
• Student- teacher
• Informal-Alternative schooling( Shikshantar, Forest Kindergartens, Home
schooling Open class rooms_
9. Class inputs-India’s education system in pre-british
era
British
• Good schools
Good
• UK-not too much pressure
• Skill centric , Hands on , Experience based
• No books
Gurukul system
• Long period of time
• Disciplined schedule
• Respect for teachers
Inheritance transfer of crafts
10. Ancient education system in India
Goal of education
• Character formation, Personality development, Infusion of spiritual and religious
values
History
• 3rd BC
• Residential schools- Students lived in the same house with Gurus
Mode
• Oral
Payment
• Free
• Gurudakshina
Teaching method
• Reasoning and questioning
11. Ancient education system in India
Subjects
•Herbal Medicine
•Drama
•Literature
•Philosophy
•Astrology
•Warfare
•Statecraft
•History
Vedic education
•Vedas .
•Grammar
•Understanding the secret of nature
Storytelling/Case studies
•Mahabharata and Ramayana
•Human goals, Duty to the society
Upanishads
•Exploratory learning process
13. Minute by the Hon'ble T. B. Macaulay, dated
the 2nd February 1835.
In one point I fully agree with the gentlemen to whose general views I am
opposed. I feel with them that it is impossible for us, with our limited means, to
attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to
form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we
govern, --a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in
opinions, in morals and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the
vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science
borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit
vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
14. Minute by the Hon'ble T. B. Macaulay, dated
the 2nd February 1835.
But I would strike at the root of the bad system which has hitherto been
fostered by us. I would at once stop the printing of Arabic and Sanscrit
books. I would abolish the Mudrassa and the Sanscrit College at Calcutta.
Benares is the great seat of Brahminical learning; Delhi of Arabic learning.
If we retain the Sanscrit College at Bonares and the Mahometan College
at Delhi we do enough and much more than enough in my opinion, for
the Eastern languages. If the Benares and Delhi Colleges should be
retained, I would at least recommend that no stipends shall be given to
any students who may hereafter repair thither, but that the people shall
be left to make their own choice between the rival systems of education
without being bribed by us to learn what they have no desire to know.
The funds which would thus be placed at our disposal would enable us to
give larger encouragement to the Hindoo College at Calcutta, and
establish in the principal cities throughout the Presidencies of Fort
William and Agra schools in which the English language might be well and
thoroughly taught.
15. We are a Board for wasting the public money, for printing books which are of less value than
the paper on which they are printed was while it was blank-- for giving artificial
encouragement to absurd history, absurd metaphysics, absurd physics, absurd theology-- for
raising up a breed of scholars who find their scholarship an incumbrance and blemish, who
live on the public while they are receiving their education, and whose education is so utterly
useless to them that, when they have received it, they must either starve or live on the public
all the rest of their lives
Minute by the Hon'ble T. B. Macaulay, dated
the 2nd February 1835.
16. Discussion
Gurukul as a system
Japan Education system
Alternative schooling
• Innovation in India Learning in the school
without walls (Learning World S5E30, 12)
• Can ice stupas solve the water crisis in the
Himalayan Desert - BBC News
• Elementary schools in Japan
18. Class inputs-What challenges do our education
system face
Challenges
• Theory more than practice
• Lack of quality teachers
• Physical abuse
• Peer Pressure
• Parental pressure
• Engineer ,doctors- gods
• Infrastructure
• Sports
• Education
• Primary schools
19. Assignment
Focus on just one challenge
Which is one change/Innovation you
would like to implement? Discuss in
detail
• What policies you will formulate?
• Who will be the decision makers?
