Can we change the generations...? Can we change the country...? Can we change the thoughts and ideas of the upcoming societies...? Yes, We Can...!!! Just improve the Primary Education System of the country... I have a dream to lay down Smart Primary Education system for the upcoming generations... n' have seen this dream long back when I was in alma mater... when I used to curse my teachers... when I used to find reasons to not attend the school... when I never enjoyed going to school... when I used to think, school-life sucks...!!!
And I still visualize the same dream...!!!
I tried to imagine how children are barred by the un-required school’s local rules and regulation.... 1st school regulations, then teacher’s rules, and then parent’s reign... Oh, I just used to hate the school-life when I was a kid... when I was in primary education… when I was longing to have fun…!!!
A small child wants fun in his life… if education is fun, then what else he would need… A fun bounded Smart Primary Education is required and is the need of the time. A poor quality or say un-smart way of education, where children are forced to learn and not motivated, may even lead to illiteracy in worst case… it will leave an impression on the person for this life time and will be visible when he is ready to handle the future… when he will be the karnadhar of society…!!!
I am not blaming that we don’t have a good primary education system in the country, we do have but we just have good system… the people who are responsible to run the system in a proper way, have the attitude of “devil-may-care”. They don’t bother at all, and it happens generally in small towns… I am the one who is victim of carefree education regime, but I still have the Dream…!!!
A Smart Primary Education can be put up on three basic pillar of the educational society. 1st who is the receiver, 2nd who is giver, and 3rd who is affecting or influencing or involved, and they are the the Child, the Teacher and the Parent respectively. A smart education system involves all these three mainstays intact to generate the kind of education phenomenon which will create a fun and interesting environment for all three pillars to increase their involvement towards are better society and future. These three pillar need to be supported by a deep base of strong moral, principles and ethics to make the primary education more centric towards our basic responsibilities and great future.
This is the Smart Education what I dream, and believe me… I gonna live my dream one day…!!!
PS: A recent OECD study states that those few countries in Africa that years ago significantly invested in (primary) education, now derive economic growth from this investment.
Shivendra Singh
July 22, 2009