This is the time of academic results. I have seen a lot of advertisements by educational institutions and news about students who scored higher marks (in fact few missed by two or three marks to get the full marks). What I noticed is our education is still a factory which tries to hatch more engineers, doctors, CAs, and Software Professionals! Don't we need any other profession in this world? Yes we do! If we have a problem with our electric cable, we need an electrician, if there is some problem with water supply, we need a plumber to rectify it, if we want to relax in the evening we might need to go to a movie/theatre/concert, so don't we need actors, artists, and singers?
Unfortunately, most of the people who are working in the above mentioned profession are people who might have failed drastically in the current education system or people who escaped from the system where their parents and teachers tried to inject the wrong 'medicine' upon them! All of you know how difficult it is to get a plumber, electrician, carpenter...you name it!
Of course we need 'good' engineers and doctors and at the same time we need good teachers, policemen, politicians, cartoonists, journalists, sports personalities etc etc. But how good is our education in delivering all these materials?!
Do our education kills creativity? I have seen one of Ken Robinson's TED talk regarding the same subject. Unfortunately our schools/education kill creativity of most of the students! We cannot blame teachers. Unfortunately they are only a cog in the wheel of this education system which has been started in the 19th century to cater the manpower need of industrial revolution ! Fortunately in the recent times, there has been a lot of thinking and effort has been put on to revive our education system but that is not enough.
