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Post by confuzzled dude Fri May 15, 2015 8:25 pm

Every year, hundreds of millions of children enrol in public, municipal Indian schools, strictly following a set-out curriculum. This is normal, as every country sets up a curriculum that each public school has to follow. However, the issue in India is not what the children are being taught, but how they are being taught.

By interviewing people who used to be taught in the schooling system here in India, I found that the Indian education system is set out in such a way that children are constantly memorising dates, lessons, and various other pieces of text or information that they must regurgitate. There is no creative or innovative thinking involved. The fact that the Indian education system overvalues memorisation over innovation and originality is its biggest limitation. Memorising material simply isn’t going to teach children the skills they require to be successful.
However, creativity isn’t only about finding success in school or later, as most of the interviewed students said. Some said that creativity “allows children to express themselves for who they really are”, and not become people “who just know how to follow directions”. One even argued that restricting creativity might give children “the idea that expression is a negative thing”. Not only do people think that creativity might educate children in order to help them succeed later, they also think that on a personal level, creativity is a great and important thing. Creativity will allow people to express themselves and be who they really are without doubting themselves.
As Ken Robinson, a famous educationist, said: “Creativity is putting your imagination to work and it has produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.”

If education systems keep discouraging it, people won’t know how to put their imagination to work — an indispensable skill in our era.
http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/how-to-create-a-better-school-system/99/

If Modiji wants Google to happen out of India he should start with revamping the school system

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