Is our education system broken is our education system creating followers or leaders ? Credits : Veritasium https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium

1. Education System
Is it Producing Leaders or Followers
From the perspective of
Namit Sinha

2. Methodology
of
our education system
1. Teach 2. Test 3. Mark

3. Drawbacks of our
education system
• Getting high marks is the only positive feedback you
can get.
• Rote learning where
History = learning Dates…
Language = learning Poems…
Math = learning formulas.

4. Our Teaching Methods are boring
Drawbacks of our
education system

5. Programmed to learn/read only
for an exam
33% 42%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Never read
another book
after school
College
graduated who
never read
another book
Citations : NEA (New Enterprise Associates) article “Reading at Risk”
45
24
56
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
% Who read
a
novel/story
Read Plays/
poetrey
% who read
any book
In past 12 months

6. What our system is doing
is creating
Blind Followers
• Most of them are trained to follow orders
• Get a decent 9 – 5 Job
• Still India manages to become 3rd largest base for
startups in the world in 2015
Citation : thehindubusinessline.com

7. How we are trying to
abate the problems
• Use of Audiovisual aids in classroom
• Focus more on teaching practical knowledge
• Use of Internet
• Use of MOOC’s (coursera , nptel , eDx)
• Live lectures streaming on Youtube.

8. How we are trying to
abate the problems
No
they are not going to work !

9. This will revolutionize
education
• Nothing has been said that often and as incorrectly
as that sentence.
“ Motion picture would revolutionize education ”
In 1922 Edison said

10. Then Came The Radio
• In 1930’s there was radio which was destined to
revolutionize education

11. Then Came The Radio
• In 1930’s there was radio which was destined to
revolutionize education
But it too Failed to produce
any
Quantifiable results

12. Finally Came the internet
• In 1980’s computers were the revolutionary solution
to our educational problems.
• Researchers suspected that if we taught kids to
program , say “how to move a turtle on the screen”
it would improve their problem solving and
reasoning skills.

13. Finally Came the internet
• The children’s became good at programming the
turtle but their reasoning and problem solving skills
remained the same.
• We still did not learnt from failures of our past
predictions.

14. What does a revolution
looks like
At least not like this
1960’s 2015’s

15. What about Audio/Visuals
• Do animations help better to understand a topic as
compared to a static ?
• Does a video promote learning better than a book?
• Are live lectures more effective than televised
lectures ?

16. What about Audio/Visuals
No Significant difference

17. Why do we need Teachers
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18. Why do we need Teachers
• Fundamental role of a teacher is not to deliver
information .
• It is to guide
To inspire To ExciteTo challenge
Their student to want to learn

19. Technology does help
in the process of
learning
But using Technology is at best a evolution
Not a revolution
The most important gear in the clock of learning is the teacher who inspires the students
To learn instead of scaring them by bombarding information