what is the drawback of present education?

Answer 1

There is definately lack of infrastructure and quality of education in many schools and colleges.They charge more fees and take donations.Education has become like business now-a-days.Even for LKG admissions they demand 35000 or even more in some ICSE/CBSE schools in Bangalore.They do not recruit qualified professionals and pay very less salary.What sort of morale,ethics and values will they instill to their students?There is no authority to question this type of school management?Only God can save the students and poor parents.

Answer 2

The way teachers are taught and what is expected of them is at an inbalance. many Teacher schools are stuck at a 1950's blue collar approach to teaching. Teach the basics and those who will go to college will get what they need to go further then.

Now a days though most kids go to college and need more sooner.

We don't expect enough and teachers don't know how to expect more.

All through college we are told never to teach to the tests, be creative and find many ways to present info. The first meeting I had with my first principle was almost the complete opposite. I was not to teach anything that was not tested and I was to find a way to make sure every student learned all the same stuff, even if that ment some were not learning anything new.

Our system sucks but until we have enough people who care nothing will change.

Answer 3

The way our mainstream schools teach children, for me, its a matter of surprise that how children get to learn things. Not learning things by children is the most acceptable proposition for me, reckoning the current widespread pedagogical (mal)practices and the nature of child-teacher relationship. There are several questions to be asked or the issues to be debated as drawback of the present education revolve around them (I am referring to elementary school education):
a. Appropriateness of the curriculum set by the government
b. Educational Management system
c. Physical infrastructure and learning environment at schools
c. Pedagogical practices
d. Quality in Education
e. Parental Perception/idea of 'good education'
f. What is a school? Is it a distinct building outside the community owned by government or individual? Or is it a interweaved system of child-community-government?
g. What is the expected END of education? The popular belief...

The list may go on and on. We dont have a common shared understanding of the issues mentioned above, everyone see and analyze them in their own ways.We have to arrive at a shared understanding of the above issues and infact, over all the processes related (directly and indirectly) to education to the betterment of the nation.

Answer 4

Education is good, but vaste portion is very harsh towards present generation children. The portions are too vast that children are unable to remember the same. All may not have the same thinking and remembering power so as to mug up and put it on paper. Education should be in such a way that children should not be boring or burden, it should be fun loving and educative to children so that they can learn new things, instead it is in such a way that they have to do or die by remebering and are becoming mad, since every child's parents wants her child to be in the Ist rank which is not at all possible, inturn they put burden on the child to read. First the portions should be reduced and knowledge and meaning should be increased.

Answer 5

Too many kids in the class rooms. I think the old way of teaching needs to change. Kids are bored it has been proven that different ways of teaching work. Teachers claim that more money would solve the problem but that is not true either. Some schools have gotten more money and the problem is still there. I think bill and linda gates are doing more for the education system that anyone. They are on the right track.

Answer 6

Having been a teacher for 5 years, I would say that the main problem is accountability. Students don't appreciate the education because it is "free", but, if school was more of a privilege and less of a mandatory obligation (much like many European/ Asian school systems) it would change the face of education in this country.

Answer 7

The degree to which public education dwells on social engineering has made it less able to produce and nurture certain valuable skills. When we take competition out of the classroom and just try to get everyone to feel good about themselves we deprive children of very important lessons in preparation, creativity, self-esteem and the benefits of hard work.

Answer 8

the most important drawback of todays education system is that it is not practical oriented in concern with actual scenario in market more stress is laid on theory.

Answer 9

I asked my son one day who was preparing for his unit test(VI Standard CBSE syllabus) what the portion was for exams. He answered division of decimals. I asked when was it taught? He said "The day before". I asked him "In one day could you master division of decimals? 42 X 42 = 1764. I asked him where would he keep decimal point in the quotient when 17.64 is divied by 42? I went to school. I met father of the guy who stood first in the class. I asked him whether his son learnt the division of decimals? "Yes" he said. I told to myself the guy is byeheart master. I went to teacher and complained. She said "what shall I do? Parents have complained against me for not completing portion. This is our education.
We pay scant respect to basics. Tell me what is the name of the science that deals with nature, properties, composition, laws and classification of wealth? There is not a single soil testing laboratory in country to test physical properties of soils of farmer's fields. We are out to conserve soil and water without improving physical properties of soils like infiltration rate and water holding capacity. wE LOVE THE WORDS "ADVANCED, TECHNICAL, SUPER SPECIALIZED, APPLIED and hate the words basic or fundamental. Without basics or bookish knowledge one may call applied is brittle.
The basics for improving education would be allocating more resources for education. We spend hardly 2-3% of our GDP on education where as the less advanced spend more than 7-8% of GDP on education. For a population of about 60 crores children of age group 5-15 we need at least 2 crore teachers. Do we have? Stick to basics and education will improve.

Answer 10

schools are designed for a 1950's life, yet this is 2006.

there is no student accountability
lack of discipline
little money, little resources
education is just not important to young people or their parents