Thursday, December 18, 2008

Education-- adaptation and experience!!!

Here I want to reflect upon what Raju sir taught us in the class room. He told us that education is not what we get in the classroom but it is gained out in the real world. I t comes with different experiences and our adaptation to that particular situation. This is very much related to my experience of fieldwork. I know whole fieldwork was to gie us the real insights of the rural india. But Prashant and I had an unique experience during our stay at Katri. Probably you all must be knowing about our bitter experience and that we had to leave the village. This experience make me think about what sir taught us. When I reflect upon that experience today, I am in total agreement with the sir. Here in classroom we can sit together and develop hundreds of development plans. But real challenge comes at the time of implementaion. That experience taught me how different is the reality from our classroom or campus environment. It showed me how difficult for any NGO or field worker it can be to enter a new village and implement the plans. We all should think about this and understand by heart what exactly sir wanted to convey. Really education is not a classroom practice but it is a practised and gained in the real world. It gives us the opportunity to understand various situations and our approach to tackle them. We should learn from our previous mistakes and improve upon it. That's what the real education is--continual adaptation.

2 comments:

irfan said...
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irfan said...

dear jani,
i agree to what you say.i would quote some examples first..a 6 year small child in a mumbai slum was able to speak 4 languages.he has been to no school nor any formal education was imparted to this kid. can any one still say this kid is not intelligent(assuming education a means to achieve intelligence).what does an institution teach a kid of that age..is this kid by any means behind those who go to school? a porter's son who never attends a school is an amateur potter when he is 12 years old, by virtue of his association with his father. now when such a kid is sent to school..where is his skill or talent being projected..isn't he on his way to become a professional potter. when he grows old he would know what his market is and what shud he do, etc.,
the present formal education system in fact deteriorating the cognitive ability of humans. he needs clear and some times written directions for every obvious thing..
this classroom education system is just standardising an individual to act or perform in a prescribed way that suits the system. in this process the individual looses his creative instincts and his thinking is limited to those boundaries of text or material..
tell me why were many of the great scientists school drop outs??