With the new reforms in Indian Education System, India is about to witness an increased number of Universities. In fact, almost all the colleges may be ‘renamed’ as ‘University’ in the next 10 years.
Once there were only few Universities in India and people literally fought for a ’seat’ for professional courses. Soon, people from Middle-class and Upper-middle class won’t talk about ‘merit’ because they will be carried away by the ‘New Universities’ which may offer some attractive courses at a huge cost (which these people may arrange for some educational loan and repay after they get placed in a good company).
What these “new educational reforms” have failed to do is that they never made “education” as a thing for “knowledge”. Also they never made a person “learn naturally” but just memorize and reproduce in the exams.
I’m just waiting for the day when:
1. A student learns a course out of his/her own interest.
2. A learning atmosphere prevails in the classroom (similar to The Physics Society classroom conducted by Prof. Ananthan)
3. Job & Education are de-linked from each other.
4. Talented person can shine in his/her field of interest.
5. The current “memorize & reproduce” exam pattern is changed and replaced by “understand and write” exam pattern.
The rise of Universities in India may help me achieve these things listed above or it may become ‘yet-another-business’.
