Paving the way for the Unborn Citizen
Abstract: Many Countries in the 21st century are striving to up their indices including the GDP, HDI. Every government wants to ensure that the people of their nation make a decent wage, do not rely on their social security schemes, and make themselves self-sustainable. The nations of the world also want to make their credit profile better in the eyes of the International Monetary Fund and acquire financial benefits to fund their massive prospecive schemes. Every government wants to make their presence felt on the world stage.This paper highlights what India must do in order to better educate their citizens and pave the way for the future citizens in the light of current events.
Introduction:
Paving the way for the future unborn citizen is to not just make their life easy but to carve a path for their contribution to betterment of society. With the evils of religious and caste based bigotry there are already children living today that are facing a multitude of issues to shine and show their prowess. Legally none of these issues may exist but they exist subtly in the minds of people. We have seen news items that even in silicon Valley the caste system based discrimination prevails today. There are many people who are born in what we call "Forward castes" to families that are impoverished. These children lose the battle against reservation based on caste on the contrary of what we saw in the news about Silicon Valley. We need to address these issues to make sure none of the children born after today, face these issues and they must be helped to grow in a benign society that rewards every citizen by helping them shine in their own way in their own light.
Methods:
Education is not merely degree certificates and this phrase has almost become a cliche to everyone. However, we all have some kind of degree on this esteemed forum. Without that there is no possibility to understand our world. We have to understand our world in order to help it in the first place nevertheless.
Today's competitive world forces children to excel in math and science for instance and the best scores on competitive examinations make the cut to IITs and IIMs. There are 10,000 IIT candidates selected every year out of nearly more than half a million people. Everyone else who didn't make the cut trickle down into the rest of the Universities and colleges based on their merit. The questions we need to ask is, do we need so many Computer science and Electronics graduates, how many Agricultural specialists, Biotechnologists, doctors, mechanical engineers, Educators, Teachers, Evangelists, Inspirers, and how many more people do we need in order to put the sticks together to reach the banana after the above folks chalk out plans on how to do it.
We need people in every field but we only selectively choose folks with the highest scores. In my opinion, this is a grand way to lose Teslas, Einsteins, Curies and other great geniuses who have amazing minds but they do not have the skill to get that score by remembeding a few things for an exam.
In the light of Modern communication infrastructure, internet and platforms like this being made available, we have to create forums to dig and find these geniuses as a start. We have to reach out to every school in every district in every State in the country and not just find the bright ones but to sculpt bright minds and help them express their creativity. We have to make the back benches shine.
We also have to respect all kinds of professions and treat everyone with the same dignity. Some children may develop the affinity to do things and some mau develop affinity to chalk out plans on how to do things. In today's world, we respect the Chalkers and Talkers and not so much in regards to the Doers. This has to change.
The way we can change this is to ensure that the doers get as much remuneration as the chalkers. When their do their best in doing, we have to reward them. Someone might dream a bridge across the shores of Kerala to Lakshadweep but someone still has to pull the levers of the Excavators, earth movers and someone might still be lifting bricks on their heads. We should make sure they get their fair share of remuneration and respect. This way we can expand the consciousness of today's society so parents don't just push their children into Computer science where many end up with a Certification but not a real qualification.
All children must have access to high speed internet, forums where they can showcase their skills. Then, Universitites recognizing these skills and not just scores becomes a challange. We need a massive influx of educators to evaluate and analyze these future citizens based on their skills they showcased along with their scores. We need hundreds and thousands of IITs and not just a few tens given our population size. We need to ensure these aspects are addressed in tandem to make India shine.
Results:
The results we expect from implementing the above are that all children have access to quality education via the internet, with access to forums and platforms to showcase their talents, universities encouraging the prospective student's talent from a spectrum of their achievements and not just test scores, society respecting every profession through remuneration and respect. This will ensure that out of the more than a billion people we have and we will continue to have in the foreseeable future, we will have a colorful combination of professions into which children grow into out of passion and love and not just force from the family or society. When something is done from love and passion, destiny smiles on us.
Conclusion:
Our goal to make India shine in regards to education starts with looking at children as not statistics and test scores but as potential to build something that is needed to make the country shine.
