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“In a world where powers are determined by the share of the world’s knowledge, reflected by patents, paper and so on… it is important for India to put all her acts together to become a continuous innovator and creator of science and technology intensive product”. This what technology icon of India Mr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said in his one of his conference, the message is clear, in coming era country with high end technological powers is going to cash her resources and would be the front runner. What Mr. Kalam said is India needs more of talented folks who can deliver excellent research work not only in science and technology but also in every sphere of our lives, be it social science, politics. India desperately requires a strong R&D platform where she could create a launching pad for the new technologies.
All this is blue print, by looking at this India could think of becomming a new super power in times to come or atleast be at power with many advance countries. This is where India lacks the most, the ability to transform words into action. Without a sheer effort of converting these ideas into action these thoughts would remain as a blue print. It’s not that India is a lazy jack, primarily it’s because we dont have proper resources and funding for this to happen, and with our traditional pedagogic ways of teaching this seems to be an impossible job.
Before I begin my thought process, once I was going to a song of Pink FLoyd, one line that made a lasting impression in my mind was “after all we are just another brick in the wall”, seems strange! that what a rock star has to do with this piece of blog. But this is how co-relate thing in life. With the present education system it is evident that dream of Mr.Kalam would remain a dream. For Mr.Kalam’s vision to take birth, our young folks should have an open panorma, where thought flourish not any mathematical formula or physics laws. This where we start a weak foundation. India fails at the very first step of becoming a tech guru. Education is a key to remove all the orthodox and baseless rituals we follow, but the task becomes tough when its own rituals are so oppressive and ossified.

Schools are similar to a theater where the actors like Principal, teachers are mere a script reader, like a theater actor is required to speak what’s written in the script so as our teachers and pricnipal. They have an hard coded program by which they execute their daily task. What I mean is that, the prime concern is to get the overall marks count for the school to get high. Teachers are least bothered about the thought process of the students, what matters to them is they follow the school policy and deliver good scores. At a some stage students too feel that only way to excel is to become book worm, loosing their creativity. A mid set up of getting an admission to a good college they need to have a healthy count of marks, they tend forget the real goal of this education, for which Mr.Kalam was talking about. After all it’s the Indian education system requirement that molds the student in this way.Teacher give a limited chunk of time to a specific topic, for them it is immaterial wether the student understood the concept. If they understood its good, if not its excellent. Keeping this in mind now the board exams have been made optional. The idea is again good, that now since student don’t have any phobia of exams they can concentrate on the fundamentals rather than cramming the formula, teacher also could spend more time on each topic. The policy makers did their part of act, it’s now up to the school actors to execute the script.

Coming to the next stage of Studentship, i.e graduation or postgraduation. In a report it is said that India would be at same technology level like any other developed country and by the end of 2015 or 2020 she would overtale them all. Many would appreciate such kind of speculation, but on real ground this is herculious task. I don’t say that what is being said is incorrect but the facts sings a different melody. Nearly 4,00,000 software geeks turn up every year out of that 3,00,000 are software buddies, major chunk of this goes for job, neglecting the research studies, nearly 20,000 goes for Post graduate and 1000 pursue Phd’s. The problem is mass pool of talented techie filter out at the level of graduation. The reason is also acceptable, India spends about $27 million on R&D where as US spends $368 and China nearly $104. With such small amount the graduate don’t show interest in pursuing postgraduate studies. A survey brings a more clear picture, there is about 156 research population per million, where as the count for US is 4,700 research scholors population per million.
what we dream of, today is just a dream and will remain dream till we take some rigrous steps. To get a cut throat edge in technology we need to have a collective efforts of school artist and college scripts writer. Its high time for us to stop adding bricks to the wall rather we need to start pile up the stones to build our wall a little stronger and larger.

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