EDUCATION - IT'S INCOMPLETE

Education... Dictionary.com says Education is the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
Going by the definition i feel my so called uneducated my grand father is more educated than the so called educated people whom i see in my office or any where.

I am forced to sit and think. Why there is a discrepancy, All my life i have learned to reason why... Why people who finished graduation seem not completely educated, I guess something is wrong with their schooling. What is wrong with their schooling, i guess something is wrong with the system... What is wrong in the system, we should understand...

As an old adage goes  - Young mind is like fresh cement it captures everything that comes its way.the children comes to school a fresh mind to learn everything that will be taught at the school.What happens at school is the question to be answered?... Let us take myself as an example to make it more realistic and try to answer the questions.

So now we have to identify the flaws in the system going by the definition of education.
It is not only our role to identify the flaws but also our responsibility to fix the flaws.Let us again go by definition, one by one...

Education is the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge - General knowledge is the knowledge available to everyone, starting from sky is blue...
How it is imparted in the school ? - I had a specific period on GK, where my teacher used to teach me what is given in my GK book during the course of the year, nothing more and nothing less.please note i never had any exams on GK as it is not considered a subject.apart from these my school is kind enough to allow students in other GK and QUIZ competitions.

So now GK is being taught to the extent possible, What is wrong with the system ?
let us go by the example used -  At school they taught me sky is blue but they never taught me WHY THE SKY IS BLUE ?  - My education is incomplete. this is an example, very similarly i have been taught with many things without i knowing what it is and why it's so ?

To Fix it - It should be made mandatory in the schooling system that the students should be explained why? why? when ever any phenomenon being explained to them , students should be made to understand the logic behind any topic than to learn something by-heart. If learning why is taught to students from young age it will develop kids overall understanding of any subject and it will help him a life time.

Education is the act of developing the powers of reasoning and judgement - The Powers of reasoning and judgement, believe me or not, i had seldom given an opportunity to reason out and judge at my school. only place where i can practice it during the games hour, where i can reason how i played, how to play, which strategy to follow, and i can also judge my or teams performance.For this i just need a bunch of mates to play with and not necessarily a school. School has once again failed to educate me nor helped me reason out or judge.

To Fix it - Schools should dedicate some periods during the week for emotional, logical, verbal, & non verbal reasoning for the students. Should be taught the ways to reason out. It would be great if they are given some real life cases to reason out and to judge apart from the schoolistic reasoning.

Education is the act or process preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life  - I should say this is the Gross failure of schooling or even during graduation, recent suicides during release of 12th results and even at IITs and other institutions are the testimony to that fact. If the students are educated to be intellectually mature, the suicides will never happen.

To Fix it - This the most important role of education in students life, to help one grow intellectually to lead a mature life. all the students should go through personal counselling from a dedicated counselor for any particular school. The counselor should understand the concerns of the students and help them fix it in the way the better for every individual students. the role of the counselor should be to guide the students and should make the students to take decisions and should help them lead a life on their own.

We identified the flaws in the system just going by the definition of Education, apart from these there are numerous things to be addressed, yet these are the basics.
Once the basics of the Education is followed at schools and at Colleges during graduation,
am pretty confident that we can see more educated men in our amidst, and more importantly India will become more powerful as a nation in due course because of these educated men.