Indian Economy

[Varoon4]

Critics are born everyday. They lack confidence in themselves. Surprisingly most of the critics listen to western anti - India propaganda.

Or at the very least, take a balanced view of it. Per capita income is very important, but if it were just a question of population( as some cynics in the media and cyberspace are remarking) why didn't India surpass the UK and Japan in the 1980s and 90s, as opposed to now. India was much larger than those countries in population then as well. There is a reason it's happening in the 2020s.

 

[Okabe Rintarou]

Can you give an example, Like what exactly should we change in the curriculum..?

I have heard this thing "Our Education system needs to be change " thing for decade , I am not saying system is best but so far it's working. I also understand there are lot of room for improvement but very few people come up with something tangible, who are crying about the system.

In the this present era of internet we can literally learn whatever we want, however we want from the Youtube, Swayam, etc...! Not saying we shouldn't blame or improve the system, but if someone is lagging behind the System itself does not deserve all the blame.

Still from My perspective following changes we do need in the System
1. Education should be in Mother tongue (This will not go down with lot of people I know.). Reason for this is because I think students would be able to understand the subject far better in their own language instead of English especially STEM subjects .
2. Less importance to English and little bit more to Hindi (will not go down with South state apparently)
3. Logic as a subject in lower classes
4. Ethics as a subject in lower classes (I am a philosophy major so I have soft spot for this subjects)

STEM in local languages already exists as an option. But IMHO, it will be a backward leap because even for basic vocab, we nowadays have hinglish or other such language blends. And as a result, folks know what axis is but not what dhuri is. Or what cell is but no what koshika is. Or what machine is but not what yantra is.
In both cases you need to learn the lexicon, the technical jargon, anyways. So its not as if studying in local language will mean they didnt need to learn new words.

Also, most books, and as you reach college level, most research papers, are written in English. Its a bad idea to actively train our kids to avoid understanding this knowledge repository. If understanding is the problem, train teachers to explain in local languages. Once you explain someone a concept with English jargon but in local language, even if they are not adept at English, they can still understand it better. Technical writings in English are straightforward, you don't need a high level of proficiency, its not English literature.

By the way, I don't know what "Logic" as a subject is meant to be like. Is it like teaching students critical thinking or is it like Model Theoru in maths?

 

[eastern_bhartiya]

Can you give an example, Like what exactly should we change in the curriculum..?

I have heard this thing "Our Education system needs to be change " thing for decade , I am not saying system is best but so far it's working. I also understand there are lot of room for improvement but very few people come up with something tangible, who are crying about the system.

In the this present era of internet we can literally learn whatever we want, however we want from the Youtube, Swayam, etc...! Not saying we shouldn't blame or improve the system, but if someone is lagging behind the System itself does not deserve all the blame.

Still from My perspective following changes we do need in the System
1. Education should be in Mother tongue (This will not go down with lot of people I know.). Reason for this is because I think students would be able to understand the subject far better in their own language instead of English especially STEM subjects .
2. Less importance to English and little bit more to Hindi (will not go down with South state apparently)
3. Logic as a subject in lower classes
4. Ethics as a subject in lower classes (I am a philosophy major so I have soft spot for this subjects)

Point here is not the study itself, education isn't just studying concepts or theories, your education and academia are different with some overlap, academic influences your politics, culture, scientific advancement, military.

Thing is we have so far created workers for western economics, this economic startegy is viable till we reach a certain after which, we Unless we move into high value industries we risk getting stuck in middle income or even lower middle income trap.

I don't agree with giving active importance to hindi, most non hindi speakers passively adopt hindi, pushing hindi on a official capacity just proves every nefarious point of language kangers.

 

[eastern_bhartiya]

STEM in local languages already exists as an option. But IMHO, it will be a backward leap because even for basic vocab, we nowadays have hinglish or other such language blends. And as a result, folks know what axis is but not what dhuri is. Or what cell is but no what koshika is. Or what machine is but not what yantra is.
In both cases you need to learn the lexicon, the technical jargon, anyways. So its not as if studying in local language will mean they didnt need to learn new words.

Also, most books, and as you reach college level, most research papers, are written in English. Its a bad idea to actively train our kids to avoid understanding this knowledge repository. If understanding is the problem, train teachers to explain in local languages. Once you explain someone a concept with English jargon but in local language, even if they are not adept at English, they can still understand it better. Technical writings in English are straightforward, you don't need a high level of proficiency, its not English literature.

By the way, I don't know what "Logic" as a subject is meant to be like. Is it like teaching students critical thinking or is it like Model Theoru in maths?

Science in mother tounge always has hit me as a dumb populist point, if you have ever gone into higher levels in field like pcm, you know what one doesn't have to be shashi tharoor 2.0 to be understand scientific literature, most of which is pretty straightforward, most teachers already teach these topic in a english+ local language way as mentioned in the post.

 

[samlessheart]

STEM in local languages already exists as an option. But IMHO, it will be a backward leap because even for basic vocab, we nowadays have hinglish or other such language blends. And as a result, folks know what axis is but not what dhuri is. Or what cell is but no what koshika is. Or what machine is but not what yantra is.
In both cases you need to learn the lexicon, the technical jargon, anyways. So its not as if studying in local language will mean they didnt need to learn new words.

In Higher studies can understand, But at least till 10th it should be in Mother tongue and little bit of English concepts to gain familiarity of those subjects in English. This is more towards to Parents rather than Education board as many parent are enrolling their kids to English Medium or Semi English Medium at least this the case where I live, My niece is in 5th std and she can't speak or understand English but she has to learn Math and Science in English as she is in Semi English schools. And for obvious reasons her math and science is poor.

How do People form Japan, Germany and France etc. handle Higher studies as I believe most of them don't learn English.

By the way, I don't know what "Logic" as a subject is meant to be like. Is it like teaching students critical thinking or is it like Model Theoru in maths?

It can be part of Math, or it can be stand alone subject I guess.

 

[eastern_bhartiya]

Another thing, in most countries it's rare to have people learn all kind of STEM subjects together like most people don't study physics with bio, our obsession with PCM creates a lot of students that just deadweight, keep in mind even if you have to have a career in finance, you have to do PCM in 11th-12th, this gives an unseen importance to a weird combination of subjects.

Research is another thing which is handled extremely poorly, researcher even in most high level institutes get like 30k for research, in usa being researcher is a normal job.