Indian Educational System

Education is the most important national activity, the backbone of a country’s progress. It helps to strengthen the fabric of a nation to produce men of education, enlightenment, and character”. However, the rising wave of unrest and growing population of the educated unemployed in India strongly suggest that there is something fundamentally wrong with our system of education. One thing is admitted by all; that the education given at present is narrow, bookish, and far removed from the practical needs of our society. The real aim of education is to develop the physical, intellectual, and moral qualities of a student so as to make him into an integrated personality, capable of living a purposeful life. At present, this aim is hardly fulfilled by our educational institutions. The greatest defect of our present-day educational system is its excessively passive and mechanical character. The student fails utterly to play an active role in the attainment of knowledge. He mugs up the facts given to him and vomits them out on paper in the examination hall. That is why a student who does well in his college examinations, often fails miserably in the examination of life. Thus, the present system of examination has ceased to be a reliable test of a student’s ability.