Changing the Education System to improve the inner quality of human being

Education plays a great role in the life of everyone all through the life. Getting proper education is very necessary to get success and happy life just like food is necessary for healthy body. It is very important to live luxurious and better life. It develops personality of the people, provides physical and mental standard and transforms people’s living status. It promotes the feeling of physical, mental and social well being by providing better life. Good education is constructive in nature which constructs our future forever. It helps a person to improve his/her status of mind, body and spirit.

Education is not simply imparting knowledge in a particular faculty or subject or making one fit for securing jobs or fair well in exams, but at the same time is also a training in logical thinking which helps the coming generations adjust to the ever changing environment. It also means opening the doors of the mind, cleansing the soul and realization of the self. Education should aim at making human life better not only through economic upliftment of individual but also through social, moral and spiritual strengthening. Thus education is not only a way of earning but it also helps to develop human personality with skills, values, morals and enhancement of different qualities of human. So education is a vital means for the potentialities of a human being to emerge in a positive direction so that a man can live in society with full of dignity.

The existing education system is inadequate and needs to be changed in a manner that it improves internal qualities of humans. Educationists also feel that the present education system is not adequate. The major cause of deterioration in human values in present education system is corruption, privatization of educational institutions, teacher’s absenteeism, political interference and lack of value education in the curriculum. The present education system seems like factories which is producing many literate persons but they are unsuccessful in the struggle of life. In present scenario, education means how to earn money or job and the aspect of values and morals is completely neglected. This attitude has increased many perpetual problems in Indian education system. Today most of the unsocial activities are being committed by well-educated new generation. The relationship between teacher and student lack confidence towards each other. Students lack humanitarian attitude towards other persons, family, society and the nation. All destructive situations ultimately stemmed from emotions, people should try to increase constructive emotions. "The basic human nature was based on compassion which is a positive thing. If human nature was based on a negative aspect, there would have been no hope for change." Thus, there is greater urgency to think about ancient education system in India. We have to seriously think of improving the education system that changes both the physical and emotional aspects of human being.

As said by Dalai Lama "Man made the problems but we also have the ability to reduce them and eventually eliminate them. We need a sense of oneness. Different views, faith, and things like race/caste are minor issues. What we need to remember is that we all are humans and have the same right to achieve a happy life" 

There is extreme modernisation in the world but people should also have a peaceful mind. People live in big houses but there is a lot of tension within them. Material development provides only physical comfort but modernisation does not necessarily bring us inner peace. School is the common platform for all children coming from various backgrounds. Therefore, schools should have to conduct various value education activities that meet the rising needs of modern society. These activities should concentrate on the development of the children, young, adults and teacher while focusing on areas like happiness, humanity, cooperation, honesty, simplicity, love, unity, peace etc.

India had the potential to bring about this peace, it was the only country where all major traditions live together and the 3000 years of Indian culture was rooted in non-violence and religious harmony.  The only way to arrest this deterioration is to provide value-orientation in Indian educational system. Thus there is an urgent need to re-introduce value based education in the curriculum dealing specifically with human values, to redesign the fabric of Indian educational system. In India, it is necessary to increase ethical values, philosophical thinking, study, research and moral development in education system that will lead to improve the inner quality of human being.

The author of this article is Assistant Professor, Pioneer Institute of Professional Studies