Modern Vs Ancient Education System - What you must know

 Modern Vs Ancient Education System - What you must know 

During ancient times, India had a Gurukul system of Teaching,  whether it is Rich or Poor kid,  all had to go through the same gurukul way of learning.  

Reknowned Gurus used to teach the required skills applicable in those days and focus on over all develoment of students,  unlike the current system, where focus is on only academic performance.  

Our education current system was enforced and influced a britisher named Lord McCulay,  in 1836 where he had been asked to do the survey of India and its education system. He after studying the whole of India, published the report in front of then governer of India of Britishraj. The report highlighted clearly,  that britisher  can not rule on Indians because of their strong gurukul based education, system, which was focused on creating leaders and not followers. 

He then recommended to governer that unless we change or break this system and introduce our own education system,  we will not get labours and followers that we need to rule here in india. If we need more labourers for our industries, we will need to close their current education system and enfore our way of teaching.

 The proposal was agreed upon and then it is known that to stop our gurukul system ,they  used all possible means to threatend our teams and forcibly introduced new system.

Lord McCulay said, that this system of education has  to be such that if we put 5 year old kid in to the school, we should get 20 year donkey out of it. That is  we shoul to "make donkey out of and intelligent man", these were words of Lord McCulay when he introduced this system. 

And we see the result,  over the period of 100+ years,  we are so used to their way of education,  that even after independence,  we did not realise that we shoudl change it and go back to our own way of Gurukul systems.  

If you , we never had holidays or vacation concept in our education,  this was introduced by britishers because during summer they found Indian wether very hot and prefered to either to go back to england or to some hill station in India for relaxing.  We are still following the same concept of vacation and have developed a habit of looking for no of holidays in calendar at the beginning of the year.  

In gurukul,  students were taught all  relevant life skill including self defence,  war techniques,  vedas and scriptures which focused on mind,  body, soul and spiritual development , where as british education focused on making a labour our of skilled man,  who can work in factories and as laborer for them.  Creativity and leadership skills were never harnessed. 

Neverthless,  its never too late to wake up and start bringing that change.

We need to raise above the system of rote learning,  where students just mugg up for getting highest possible marks.  Where ones abilities are judged by percentage he or she receives in board exams or else he or she is labled as dull or average student. Its a system of enculcating fear in the minds of students rather than allowing students to fail often and learn and raise above the failures.  Failures should be taught as stepping stones for success rather than fearing the failure. 

Our new education policy aims to bring out significant change in this direction but we need huge force of trained teachers and trainers who can act as Counsellors and show the path to India's largest population of Youth to Raise a New India.  Tranformed India. Leader India. 

About Author

Nehal Gandhi,  has over 3decades of corporate experience working with MNC companies like IBM,  Wipro, PCS, Mastek and Aptech Computer Education.  He is a Corporate Trainer,  Career and Counsellor,  Education Entrepreneure and Parenting and Life Skill Coach.  He has trained more than 1000 students on various life skills and is also very passionate about bringing transformation in lives of students and bring about the best in them. 

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