A good education makes an individual develop personally, socially as well as economically. Education helps us to do our daily life activities in the best possible ways. Education makes us dutiful. Education helps us to acquire new skills and knowledge that will impact our development in life.
HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN INDIA
Takashasila,was the earliest recorded center of higher learning in India from 8th century BCE. It is debatable weather it cod be regarded as an institution ornot in mordern sense since teachers living there may not have had official membership of particular colleges, and there did not seem to have existed purpose-built lecture halls and residential quarters in Taxila, in contrast to the later Nalanda university in eastern India
Secular institutions cropped up along Buddhist monasteries. These institutions imparted practical education, e.g. medicine. A number of urban learning centres became increasingly visible from the period between 500 BCE to 400 CE. The important urban centres of learning were Nalanda and Manassa in Nagpur, among others. These institutions systematically imparted knowledge and attracted a number of foreign students to study topics such as Buddhist Páli literature, logic, páli grammar, etc. Chanakya, a Brahmin teacher, was among the most famous teachers, associated with founding of Mauryan Empire.
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| The remnants of the library of Nalanda, built in the 5th century BCE by Gupta kings |
INDIA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM
Education in India has an ancient tradition that dates back to the Vedic Period (1500 to 500 BC). By the time European colonialists arrived, education mostly took place in traditional Hindu village schools called gurukuls, or in Muslim elementary and secondary schools called maktabs and madrasas. The British colonialists then imposed an education system based on the British system and introduced English as a language of instruction. The first institutions of higher learning in a Western sense to emerge in British India were the University of Calcutta, the University of Bombay, and the University of Madras, all founded in 1857 based on the model of British universities.
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| Traditional hindu schoools, gurukul |
The British, sought to spread European science and literature and develop a loyal English-speaking workforce, recruited mainly from India’s upper classes, to administer its colony. They established education departments in the colony’s provinces and discriminate disbursed funds in favor of English language schools teaching British curricula. On the eve of independence in 1947, India had 17 universities and about 636 colleges teaching approximately 238,000 students. Undoubtedly, the British had altered the shape of education in India, but they left the country with a grossly unequal and elitist system—an estimated 80 percent to 90 percent of the population was illiterate at the time of independence.
The period after independence was characterized by a rapid proliferation of teaching institutions across India as the country attempted to create a modern mass education system under the leadership of its first prime minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru . India’s first constitution, adopted in 1950, called for the provision of free public and compulsory education for all children until the age of 14—an objective that still eludes the nation today, enormous progress in expanding access to education over the past 70 years notwithstanding.
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India was established as a decentralized country with a federal system of government. Thus, India’s states emerged as strong actors after 1947 and autonomously administered most aspects of education in the decades after independence. However, the central government of the Indian Union began to incrementally assume greater responsibilities with the establishment of institutions like the federal Department of Education, the University Grants Commission (UGC), instituted in 1953, and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), founded in 1962. In 1976, the constitution was eventually amended to make education the shared responsibility of the federal and state governments.
STRUCTURE OF EDUCATION SYSTEM
The education system in India is sometimes called a “10 + 2 + 3” system. This means that the first decade of a child’s education is mandatory, per the federal government. Most students begin their schooling at age five, in the form of preschool. By the time they're six, primary school begins. Students remain obligated to attend school until age 14, at which point they may choose to halt their education.
| School Type | Age |
|---|---|
| Pre-Primary | 5 |
| Lower Primary | 6-10 |
| Upper Primary | 11-13 |
| Secondary | 14-16 |
| Upper Secondary | 17-18 |
FEES STRUCTURE IN INDIA
While many parents choose to send their children to public school, especially in their younger years, expat families often choose to send their children to international schools instead.
This is advantageous as students apply to universities abroad, which tend to favor their national curriculum. It’s also helpful for children who have no prior knowledge of Hindi or their new regional dialect.
While this can seem ideal, it also comes with a cost. International schools range from 323,000-1,500,000 rupees per year, which is relatively expensive. Those fees also don’t cover uniforms and textbooks, the costs of which can seriously add up, or boarding, which may be necessary depending on the region in which you live.
WHO INTRODUCED ENGLISH EDUCATION IN INDIA?
Macaulay introduced English education in India, especially through his famous minute of February 1835. He called for an educational system that would create a class of anglicized Indians who would serve as cultural intermediaries between the British and the Indians.
CURRENT EDUCATION SYSTEM
There is a vast development due to the modern devices in India like smartphones, computers laptops etc etc....
also many institutions are present and teachers with high knowledge helps out students with their quires and better than older days teaching system and many co-curriculum activities like sports, art and crafts, pt, music classes etc...
as much as the developments of our present education there are many drawbacks of our education system compared to other countries. Other than any county India has more syllabus and the school gives more pressure to the children
where the children get depressed. As they spend more time in studies without a gap at homes by sitting in a place without moving even an inch. This causes many health problems like back pain,obesity etc and that affects the future of the students by health..
All are not same with their mindsets until the kindergarten teachers taught us A FOR APPLE and the thing is we didn't think by our knowledge
they just dump their knowledge someone dumped in their heads. The just give answers for every question we ask and dint let us think it from our own mind and if we say our own ideas to the world they keep us a name- IDIOT.
This education system made 99% of the people have the same mindsets and creativity and the other 1% is an IDIOT as i said.
Education is a conformism, they force students to study in a specific way. In this way our creativity ideas are crushed like a paper and thrown into a dustbin. This society respects only who mugs up and vomits in paper getting marks and the others are useless, worthless, blah blah and even their parents though do it. for example if the child who dosnt study well has a neighbour who studies well and their parents will be like- see the next house guy how he studies and see your marks... everything is decided by marks not creativity, but the child who dosent study well maybe good in sports, art but the world just wantmarks rather than knowledge and the thing why we study is all for MONEY. People are just a literate robots working under a person. Some of the students dump themselfs the subject and forgets their natural talents. EDUCATION SYSTEM IS ACTUALLY A HUMAN SYSTEM. I am not saying that education is a wrong thing the system is wrong
- AISHWARYA
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