Superior Education Ecosystem; Enhanced Future

The essay -- "Superior Education Ecosystem; Enhanced Future"

Interdependence is the fundamental code of an environmental ecosystem. Thus, education is a replica of an ecosystem. The interrelation among all the students, the teachers, the non-teaching staffs, the guardians, and the regulatory board or authority refers to the education ecosystem. It is discerned in various levels, like in schools, colleges, universities, vocational training institutes etc. Again, one level of ecosystem is correlated with the others like a thread holds all the flowers together to form a beautiful garland.

            Precisely, from kindergarten to primary school, from primary to secondary school, from school to college, from college to university, and from university to professional training centres, a unique ecosystem is found. Now the question is – Is the education ecosystem still pure and corruption-free even in the 21^st century?

            Remarkably, the lottery admission system in the government schools emerged in this century. Consequently, most of the times, many meritorious pupils cannot get admission to schools fairly, while those with little intelligence can get a ticket to school easily. Again, many parents’ financial instability hinders their kids from getting admission to English-medium schools.

            Moreover, proper evaluation is not done to all the students always. Be it school, college or university, many pupils suffer from frustration after the publication of the board results, because most of them can apply hardly for review, since RTI is not entertained in all cases. All these affect the transparency of education ecosystem. Since the basic place is being impeded, the students are hindered in admission to most colleges and universities because of marks-based entrance system.

            Furthermore, political power has entered such education ecosystem. For example, the son or daughter of a politically powerful person is often provided with many privileges. Students’ union becomes the rule-maker. Therefore, particularly in colleges and universities, political corruption hamper the entire ecosystem.

            Actually, an educational institute must salute equality and fraternity. However, most of the institutes in the 21^st century use these two ideologies verbally, but practically speaking, these are not followed at all. For example, we can point out the experiences of ragging in schools and colleges. Moreover, sexual abuses towards the female kids in the schools add fuel to the fire.

            In the vocational training centers, again, much mental torture, or should we say, sometimes physical torment too are done to undermine and suppress the talented. Sometimes, most regrettably, it is noticeable that the teachers too have to support the injustices done to the innocents in order to save their (teachers’) own lives.

            Sometimes it can be found that the teachers become victims to disrespectful comments on part of the rowdy students. Again, sometimes it is the teachers who fail to understand the students’ psychology. Hence, a rampant conflict takes place.

            It is interesting to note that many times the students, their guardians, and even the teachers demean and pass humiliating remarks to the non-teaching staffs, considering them to belong to lower middle classes. After all, we have no right to belittle any sort of honest work.

            Worthy of note, because of not getting proper dignity to the merit and talent, many Indian students go abroad for higher studies. This brain drain leads to such a vacant situation when the country wants proper and dedicated teachers. As a result, the education ecosystem suffers even more.

            To bring remedial steps, we first must ensure introduction of digitization to every education ecosystem. Moreover, comprehension of student psychology is mandatory. Thereafter, face to face interaction between each pupil and each teacher must be handled. Parents’-teachers’-meeting must be given utmost importance to ensure a healthy relationship among the students, the teachers and the guardians for working out every sort of problem. All the institutes must install CCTV cameras. In addition, proper understandings between one another, amicable environment and on-time implementation of clever education system by the government will be extra advantages.

            The three probable measures required to improve the quality of education ecosystem are, namely, maintenance of infrastructure, quality of the teaching procedure and that of the teachers, and extra-curricular activities. First, an infrastructure must include spacious classrooms, clean and hygienic toilets, accessible drinking water, activities, laboratories and computers for each student. Second, the teachers are the keys to the students’ knowledge and hunger for more knowledge. Hence, the teachers must be friendly and qualified, and the teaching techniques ought to be methodological with smart classrooms and digital course contents. Third, all the institutes – be it a school, a college, a university or a professional training center – must introduce facilities of sporting and cultural events for the expansion of the students’ talent as well as for the utilization of their knowledge into real life.

            Education ecosystem can be superior according to the valuable words of Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.”

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