No.
But the questions itself has lots of things to be clearly explained. To anwser the above question we need to find an answer to the following question.
What is the "sufficient knowledge" expected as part of getting educated in a particular subject?
When the experts create a syllabus for a particular course, they have to keep in mind the amount of knowledge expected to be built inside the end user or Student.
Is this enough to ensure that the student will gain intended knowledge after doing the course?
The answer is NO.
For this to happen the following things need to happen during curriculum development.
- The curriculum/syllabus should be built upon from fundamentals
- The curriculum/syllabus should contain simple practical application related to the subject
- The syllabus should contain some excersizes which should make the student think more on the subject.
Most of the time we find that, the course material / syllabus satisfies all the above criteria.
The reason being the fact that most of the time tried and tested educational experts will be behind the making of any syllabus.
Even with this kind of syllabus, we could find a lot of students who must not have gained knowledge as expected by the syllabus maker. Why?
The answer is teaching methodology.
Of late the teaching methods are becoming less effective. It has become completely person dependent.
Professionals end up in teaching at technical institutes since they could not get into any of those lucrative IT jobs. Hence they may not have the passion in them to make students learn
Colleges are focussing on good results in exam rather than the overall knowledge development of student.
The result is that terms like integration and differentiation is not clear to students who have completed graduate courses in Mathematics, even though they have used these for solving a number of problems.
Education industry has grown up as a business establishment where the primary aim is business profit, resulting in value degradation of the educational system.
Who can change all these?
Ofcourse in a democratic set up like that in India where everyone is a leader and where everyone's thinking is self centred and where everyone is thinking about his benefit in doing this, itz difficult to change.
The end result : We will have a bunch of highly qualified professionals who are good for nothing with the exception of a minority who has a self made ability to understand and learn things effectively
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well...just to add on....it's definitely our education system that needs to change..we tend to continue the same mistakes what our predecessors did - knowingly or unknowingly..if we look at Indian education system we're still following the leftovers of the system what "the Red Coats" left behind before leaving India on its own...the system that taught us or rather continues to teach us to become "clerks" who lacks entreprenurial skills...coz they wanted educated "clerks" from India to support Brit Entreprenuers...and they've succeeded in creating a majority of "clerical" population left with few exceptional entrepreuners who stand way ahead of other Indians...and guess what most of these Indian Entrepreuners have had their basic education abroad and not in India...though Brits have left us giving Independence the education system still continued and India started generating the new age "clerks" (in different sizes / capacities) who fly abroad to assist foreign businesses boom..!! We say with proud that Microsoft Windows would've never seen light without Indians....yet another example of lack of enterpreunial skills and presence of "clerical" skills....well please don't get offended by my usage of "clerks" to classify the larger population of geniuses that India Create...they are unquestionably GENIUSES but the education system has directed their energies towards giving majority of benefit of their skills to other "Smart" individuals who've been educated in better systems...who've learned the art of Entrepreneurship...as long as the conventional system of education prevails no matter how well developed the syllabus is or how excellent the delivery is...or whatever higher education one undergo the mindsets generated by the education system actually builds walls around individual thoughts that are difficult to break....!!
well subz your blog have ignited these thoughts which used to pop up in my mind everytime anybody talked about Indian education system...!! Well if this comment makes you feel that I'm against Indian education system that's not what my intention is...!! Just wanted to bounce of my thoughts on how effective our system has been in creating real entrepreuners :-)
Nice thoughts and findings.. God bless u...
Education industry, teaching methodology etc are some reasons... true...
Let me see this in a different angle...
1) Through 4 yr syll. get some fundamental ideas on subject. 2 yr PG & 3 yr phd .....
i hope ur expectation may fulfil with this pattern of study from an IIT or like institutions ..
2). 4yr BE + 2yr Pg + 3yr Phd can call a professional ....( NOT good for nothing...)
From this BASE use self made ability to understand and learn things....
3). age 17+4+2+3 =26yrs
this will be the time of maturity for life.. Education is for LIFE
One got education ... dont know how to live or to accommodate (divorce etc) ... what is the use of education..?
"Ofcourse in a democratic set up like that in India where everyone is a leader and where everyone's thinking is self centred and where everyone is thinking about his benefit in doing this, itz difficult to change." TRUE....
BUT POSSIBLE................ if change start from the middile strata.......
Solution : first step : All the engrs in India try to give higher education to their children as above with in the current set up what will be the result....?
CHARITY BIGINS AT HOME...
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