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Revamp total curricula for holistic education: Experts
Speakers at Hyderabad Media Television (HMTV) organised Dasa Disa programme on Saturday unanimously expressed dissatisfaction over the current education system, and called for bringing about radical changes to save the younger generation from the deteriorating academic standards.
Guntur: Speakers at Hyderabad Media Television (HMTV) organised Dasa Disa programme on Saturday unanimously expressed dissatisfaction over the current education system, and called for bringing about radical changes to save the younger generation from the deteriorating academic standards.
Moderating the debate, Loksatta President Dr Jayaprakash Narayan lamented that 44 per cent of fifth grade students, citing the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) survey, cannot read second standard texts despite the rise of education opportunities and mushrooming private institutions.
Although the government is spending Rs 17,000 crore towards education, he said there were tangible results to that effect. He observed that there hyper consciousness among parents to educate their children in the ‘best’ of the English medium schools.
Talking about the reforms in the school education, former education minister Dokka Manikya Vara Prasad pointed out that there was a need to earmark 20 marks for extra-curricular activities of the total 100 marks.
S.R.Parina of Vikasa Vidhya too echoed the same opinion, and also mooted the idea to reserve certain marks for general knowledge in schools. Krishna district MLC A S Rama Krishna reasoned that the negative emotions fear, jealousy, and tension as products of ‘exam-phobia’.
He said there is a need to impart life skills to students than getting into rat race of marks and ranks.Meanwhile Agriculture Minister Pulla Rao, intervening in the debate, said that the State government is mulling to bring about radical changes in the education systemto improve quality of education in government schools.
Several ideas and suggestions on how to improve quality of education in government schools came from students, teachers, political leaders and people's organisations. Even those students who had studied in private schools admitted that in private education sector the whole rat race is for marks and ranks and said there is an emphasis on rote learning not understanding concepts.
