Education in India is been a topic of great concern the education crisis runs wide and deep. 116 million of the poorest children live in India. 55% of ten-year-olds in India cannot read basic text. 75% will not go on to college. Most of those who do are not fully equipped for life. 

But my topic of concern is not all these things but about those who had the opportunity of good education and still find themselves directionless. I have gone through 20 years of formal education as per this modern system of education, aspiring to be successful but after devoting most of my teenage and small share of adult life I realized that I have been left unsatisfied. Let me tell you I am not alone there are millions of youth who are going through the same experience like me. 

Education which should have been a support to children has become a problem, learning things which they do not even care about, sacrificing their childhood so that they can achieve the things which makes them miserable for rest of their life. Education should be about helping children find  lives full of expression and encouraging their curiosity. However, current education systems do not take into  account children’s individual sensibilities and talents but train young people in a uniform or ‘packaged’  way. This type of education will smother human genius. Nothing new and wonderful will happen.

Right now,  the whole education process is just about survival. Education should not be about survival. It should be  about broadening your horizons. Because people have become so mad about their economic status, we  have twisted education into a way of milking money from the world. This has to change.

Today, the world  is no longer about people, it is about the economic engine we have built. It has become bigger than us and  we are afraid to stop it even for a moment, so we have  to keep the engine going all the time. Unfortunately,  education has mostly become about manufacturing  cogs for this machine. We can't let the machine fail,  so our children have become the spare parts and fuel  needed to keep it running. You think you need to  instruct someone only if you have assumed they  are of a lower intelligence than yourself, which is a  serious mistake. There is sufficient scientific  data to show that a thirty-year-old is not as intelligent  as a child before he even enters school. The only  reason we look smart is because we have more information than the child, which we try to show off through  instruction. Instead of instruction, we need to empower teachers to inspire and transmit what really matters  to them. Then, a child would surely sit up and listen, and every school system could become a fruitful  process. 




Education is not a production line. It is an organic happening. You cannot create an education system  independent of the society in which we exist. Are we as a society willing to cultivate an eco-system suitable  for a child to grow up in the best possible way? This is a question all of us should ask ourselves. Are we  going to do what we like to do, or are we going to be conscious of how every action of ours will impact  future generations? It is very important that we look at this because educating a child is not just a teacher’s,  parent’s or school’s business – it is the responsibility of the entire society. So now is the time that we have to  decide what we want, do we just want our children to be just graduated or we really want them to fully  flower themselves with education. Now is the time that we have to decide as artificial intelligence is around  the corner and people in future will not have jobs in organised sector and especially our country with this  huge population, it is in our hands, either we can be boon or bane to the world this is the choice we have to  make now.