Sunday, August 04, 2013

Personally, each subject should be interactive. All information provided in the subject should be transparent and neutral. All the subjects should somehow facilitate different kinds of talents and skills in each student. The education system including schools should not be based off of any religion. It should be an atheist place of knowledge that encourages people to question what they learn and become better human beings. This should be done in the primary section of schools. If a student is weak in something, they should be given more time and a choice if they want to retry or move to something else that interests them. Retrying should not mirror failure. The current system makes failure seem as the worst thing that can happen to you and it also makes it seem as if the effects of being not "good enough" are irreparable. The first phase of education should be individual oriented. Right now, the system molds students that are all carbon copies of each other and that is seen as a good thing.

According to the performance of each student in the first phase, they should be allotted subjects and activities that they enjoy doing. Each phase should have a week long orientation prior to it where the entire phase is introduced properly and the students are encouraged to be more inquisitive. The system should make it clear that everyone is equal yet different. It should abstain from sexist, racist etc. remarks, cartoons and statements. Right now, children are being taught that women are more suited for household chores and child-making which makes girls aspire to grow older and marry someone. THAT'S IT.

There should be a reward system for students who perform exceptionally. What teachers do currently is that they point out exceptional students and scold others for being incompetent fucks which discourages them from even trying. Dating etc. should not be looked down upon. There should be sessions where all this is explained instead of being termed as unacceptable behaviour. People should be encouraged to stand up for each other. The current system, though boasts of Indian equality back in the days, it instead encourages snitch-y tendencies and behaviours and so do the teachers.
I remember my first experience in arts. In class 4, my art teacher Rachna Khurmi ma'am said,"Is ladke ka kuchh nahin ho sakta." when I tried to use paints on my own for the first time and I got it wrong. That hit me so hard, I never touched paints again until class 11 where I failed miserably at painting to the point that it brought me to tears.

The third phase should be future-oriented. Basic life chores etc should be covered via simulation or interactive sessions. Like using banks and other facilities. Students need to be prepared for the future and also be given more information and knowledge in whatever interests them. All sorts of sports should be part of the physical sessions. Girls and boys should be encouraged to play together and not separately. Who died and made volleyball a girl-only sport? If someone does not like physical activities, they should be given more attention. All this should be gentle and should not be discouraging. I never liked sports. All the physical trainers hated me and never even bothered to encourage sports in me. Instead, they shunned me for not being as active as others and made jokes on me. Because people have never been taught to stand up for each other and have never been taught to put themselves in others' shoes, other classmates of mine also expanded on those jokes.
Anyway, this phase should be very important because you're actually making final touches to the human being you have been sculpting over the years. You would want this human being to be successful and open minded. Throughout each phase the institution and the families of the students should be in constant contact. The education should be such that even the families are encouraged to learn. The institution should also have informational sessions and classes for the families on special days. The quality of education and personality development should be constantly worked on so that the information the students receive is not stale and boring. It saddens me to see how broken this system is where the teachers increasingly hate students and generalize each student to be a monster, where students think that being rebellious and destructive would help them in life and where this rebellious behaviour is not controlled and contained systematically. Basically every school is pretty much the same no matter how many materialistic facilities like smart boards, school anthems, school logos, lifts and different kinds of computers are put in. They've been put in just to show off. When have they ever used those smart boards to teach us? They're still just hanging on the walls like regular boards even if they have so much to offer.

The system needs an immediate overhaul so that each student is different yet skilled and talented and open minded.

The first step to make such a productive-inclusive system happen is that they make education free for all.
Also I'm bored bye.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

People have different stances on the politics of wherever the heck they live.
I live in India so there are different groups who support the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Indian National Congress, and all the other sick-twisted parties, including the.. Shiv-Sena? Wait, is that even a party? I don't know. It's just some dudes ruining everything awesome in the name of Hinduism or something.

I, for one, have none.