Why is the Indian education system still archaic? Just book/ teacher centered, emphasis on rote learning?

Question

Indian education system - knowledge to be transmitted by teacher rather than discovered by learner. Is'nt it high time to adopt the Western style -extroverted, visual, analytical, being creative, where student learns to exhibit his/hers own distinctive learning style and build character.?

Answer 1

No, The Indian Education system is great, we have 2 kids studying in primary overseas.

When I was 7 years old we learned a lot, practised English, Hindi, Maths, Social Sciences and Science and we had different teachers for different subject.

Here my kids have only one teacher teaching the everything !

And I speak from the experiences which I had and my kids are having here. My kids are having a overdose of the visual stuff you are talking about and they get tired writing 2 lines in their notebooks. The teacher just gives all the audio visual stuff and hopes that every kid learns. We do not know what the kids are being taught. The teacher just deliver their lecture as this is there job.

we were more disciplined, had less stress and learnt the meaning of WE.

Here they only learn ME.

That is why throughout the working life people have to be taught the meaning of team work.

Yes due to changing times Indian schooling system has to be changed as well.

The difference between the Indian approach and the Western Approach is that the Indian system makes sures that who ever goes through the school would sure to have the minimum level of skills.

In the Western system some kids would shine very well and a lot would drop out. Sometimes I am amazed how the department stores have operators who can not do 10 + 10 in their head, they have to have their calculator to do so.

We are here and surviving and thriving in a foreign land because of the education system which we had in India.

Answer 2

What we will have to understand is that God didn't make everyone equal. Some use their imagination, some use intuition, some use pure rote. To be equal in the class-room the teacher handles in one specific way for all. The exceptional students will shine in their own right while the lesser children will get what the teacher is explaining in most simplistic and equal terms.