[Assam] Who will Teach? (EDITORIAL-The Sentinel,21.08.07)

[Buljit Buragohain]

                             Who will Teach?
Going by the Prime Minister’s Independence Day promise of establishing 6,000 new high-quality schools, 370 new colleges, 30 new Central universities, five new Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research, eight new Indian Institutes of Technology, seven new Indian Institutes of Management and 20 new Indian Institutes of Information Technology, one would be tempted to call it an education revolution in the making. However, we know what sort of education is imparted in the educational institutions of the country, barring of course the IIMs, IITs and select universities. Most of the educational institutions in the country have the distinction of producing an unemployable army of youths who have only certificates to showcase, but who do not know what it means to translate what they have learnt to practice. More important, most of the teachers in these institutions are reluctant to do away with their past conditionings or to accept new teaching methodologies. Add to this
 the acute shortage of quality teachers, right from the primary level. So when the Prime Minister talks of quality educational institutions, does he bother about the depleting pool from where he will be required to recruit quality teachers? And can he retain them, given the poor pay package on offer? Otherwise, there may still be a politically correct education ‘revolution’ with mere concrete structures.
   
   
  (The Sentinel,21.08.07)



       
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