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I don't think designing a reasonable pedagogical foundation is the problem for india's public schools. you can just copy the one from a decent private school.

by ippisl 15y ago

I don't think designing a reasonable pedagogical foundation is the problem for india's public schools. you can just copy the one from a decent private school. But can you teach it to a million teachers ? can you guarantee they will use it? can you make the teachers engaging ? are they good ? do they even come to to work ? will they take bribes for good test results ? Can you really do all those ? those are tough challenges. india have tried to solve those for quite some time now(probably a few decades). the results are not very good. and the problem is not unique to india. even the u.s. is troubled by education. Now compare this to the rate of improvement of technology based solutions : khan academy , based on the work of a SINGLE person which started in 2005 , now tutors tens or hundred of million people , pretty successfully and for free. even bill gates's children use it.

mnazim 15y ago
Challenges will always be there. Every few years there will be a different set of challenges. The point is do we give up because of these challenges. No. We keep striving. Generation after generation. That is how mankind has progressed. We need to do something similar for our education systems. Neither I say that I know how to do it nor I am saying let's do it all together. I am not sure what will work and what won't. But we(educationists + parents + government) need to pickup the ball and start doing something. Mr. Khan doing a great job. A great service to the mankind. His contributions towards helping people learn things is almost as important as those who invent/discover the stuff in first place. It is a great tool for people to learn. But I say it again Khan Academy is not the replacement for the primary school teacher. One thing that might work immediately is "make profit making from schools illegal". - Every school run by a group of trustworthy people selected from society by the people whose children go to those schools. - High salaries for the teachers but equally high accountability. - Any surplus to be invested back into the school. - Severe punishment by law for teachers, educationists and school managers for failing to perform duties to the best of their abilities.

by ippisl 15y ago

mnazim 15y ago

Challenges will always be there. Every few years there will be a different set of challenges. The point is do we give up because of these challenges. No. We keep striving. Generation after generation. That is how mankind has progressed. We need to do something similar for our education systems. Neither I say that I know how to do it nor I am saying let's do it all together. I am not sure what will work and what won't. But we(educationists + parents + government) need to pickup the ball and start doing something. Mr. Khan doing a great job. A great service to the mankind. His contributions towards helping people learn things is almost as important as those who invent/discover the stuff in first place. It is a great tool for people to learn. But I say it again Khan Academy is not the replacement for the primary school teacher. One thing that might work immediately is "make profit making from schools illegal". - Every school run by a group of trustworthy people selected from society by the people whose children go to those schools. - High salaries for the teachers but equally high accountability. - Any surplus to be invested back into the school. - Severe punishment by law for teachers, educationists and school managers for failing to perform duties to the best of their abilities.