Context: India needs to adopt the new pedagogy in the Education System.
Issues in Indian Education System
Lagging behind: In modern times, when the youths of the US immersed in technology in everyday life, India is lagging behind in Education system.
Lack of quality education: To access the pool of talent, the focus must be on the quality school education, where India fails to do, and stunts its own potential.
Way forward: Solution to improve Education System in India
Grasp requisite knowledge in present grade: The child shouldn’t be promoted to the next grade till they grasp the 100% of what they supposed to learn in that grade.
School needs to teach a student how to learn: In the emerging world of transient skills, the most important function of schooling is to teach a student how to learn.
Teachers need to track each and every student’s progress: Tracking individual students will be beneficial to make everyone understand everything.
This needs an education technology that can tracks individual progress and would help teacher to offer one-to-many teaching for similar groups of several classes.
Medium of instruction should be mother tongue: It will make the children able to understand the teaching. It will also promote the primary language among students.
Promote innovations: Innovation also need to be promoted among children, as it required imagination and creativity, aesthetics and cooperation.
Role of higher education institutions of excellence: Tamil Nadu has achieved singular superiority in higher education. Other states need to replicate the policies.