Education in India has been a shoddy affair. That is why PM Modi began the Skill India initiative. It is either learning by rote or learning to occupy a titular position for a regular salary. Since ancient India, learning to explore and research new ways of doing things has been eluding Indian society. That is where we lose to the world.
Health in society? You need better trainers in gyms. The equipment may be average but if the fellow or the girl behind you is yelling in his unique accent to push your heart beyond endurance then it’s not worth it.
When Delhi NCR and other cities like it get a bad name in comparison with other megalopolises, one of the reasons is the trainers in Delhi NCR gyms. They are not fit to be trainers. They have no idea how to drop the horse-cart-driver-with-whip role. Trainers in Delhi NCR are usually lunkheads picked up from the straggler’s association. We need better training for gym trainers.
Teach the teacher is a concept alien to India. There are no organised institutes to teach refined tailoring techniques, nothing for gym trainers with courses in phycological handling of gym customers, no worthwhile institutes to teach the emotional part of sports coaching. All the millions of Fashion Technology and Fashion Management institutes do not teach even the basics of sticthing and handling of sewing machines. In India, where does one learn to be a great (not average) car mechanic, a great carpenter with artisitic skills, a great cook (not a chef with innovative, confusing and unexplained dishes), a brilliant electrician. These places do not exist. Just look for a medical college teaching bedside manner on the lines of Scottish physicians in the 1700s and 1800s.
What about software development? Where do they teach you to build something in India like a Microsoft, an Alphabet (Google), a Meta (Facebook), a Cisco, a Coca-Cola, a Hewlett-Packard, a Texas Instruments? Besides coolie level coding where they teach you thought driven skills in software development?
All classic skill education in India is taught in unorganised and torturous atmosphere under a guru-shishya parampara environment where the pupil is expected to submit to the tune of humiliation and the guru is the master of the pupil’s every aspect of life. This is medieval.
Education in India has been a shoddy affair. It is either learning by rote or learning to occupy a titular position with a regular salary. Since ancient India, learning to explore and research new ways of doing things has been eluding Indian society. That is where we lose to the world.
