Personalization of our education system

Authorities at BDMI, one of the top CBSE schools in Kolkata believes that personalization of our education system is an extremely important step to provide quality education to the students in India. Assembly line education is designed to produce assembly line workers. There was a time when this was actually useful. As of today the drift of economic world is moving away from assembly line production. The biggest problem with the Indian education system is that it is built on the presumption that if something is good for one kid, it is good for all kids i.e. one size fits all.

Some kids learn faster, while others are comparatively slow. Some students tend to be visual learners, while others are auditory learners. Some others learn much faster from experience. As one massive monolithic education system has to provide education to everyone, it is natural to assume that one size fits all. If however, we can innovatively decentralize the education system, and if the government does not obsessively control the “syllabus” and the method of instruction, there could be an explosion of new and innovative courses designed towards serving various niches of learners.

For example- the market for learning dancing. There are various different dance forms that attract students with different tastes & background. Different teachers and institutes have developed different ways to teach dancing. This would never have been possible if there was a central board of dancing education which would be designed to enforce strict standards of what would be taught and how such things are to be taught.
So basically central regulation kills choice, and stifles innovations among teachers & students alike. In case of education, availability of choices, de-regulation, profitability, entrepreneurship and emergence of niche courses are all inter-connected with one another.

A system to reward creativity, original thinking, research and innovation should be setup. Our education system rarely rewards the highest & most deserving academic accolades. Deviance is always discouraged. Risk taking has become a matter of mockery. Our testing and marking systems has to be built to recognize original contributions, which comes in the form of creativity, problem solving, valuable original research, as well as, innovation. If this is done successfully Indian education system could be overhauled overnight. We must remember that memorising is no learning. It is the biggest flaw in our education system, which incentivizes memorizing & puts it above originality.



Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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