IIT Roorkee recently launched its new official forum Think Tank.
I would like to share my articles on the forum here on my blog.
hem07ume wrote:
we have recently seen that the news of the md of tata steel, refusing to take on iit graduates in his company in outlook magazine creating ripples in the education community and the proffesional world.He talked openly of the degrading standard of iit's. He say's the PRESENT IITIANS ARE NO MORE THAT BRIGHT AND INQUISITIVE LOT BUT JUST A BUNCH OF ROBOTS WHO WORK ONLY FOR THEIR GRADES.Do you support him and if so please suggest measures to reverse this change that can wreck the iit image wordwide....
I wrote:
I support the above view and as a matter of fact this is the only way things can be brought about to the notice of the officials that the system of education in IITs needs a drastic change towards the interest of students. IITs are supposed to nurture the talent of students by helping them identifying the profession they are most suited for and honing their abilities to make it their career. But sadly enough our education system focuses more on marks and less on learning from the school system itself. The JEE entrance exam is made more of a milestone achievement in the minds of the students than the actual purpose behind good education. In the IIT system also, the entire focus is on grades and truly enough, IITians are not anything more than grade generating robots anymore. Those who chose to pursue their interests either end up in frustration or depression or witness a series of fail grades because of the rigid system of attendance and education. I believe that the entire education system has become more focussed on nothing more than marks and the understanding of proper education and the interest of student has been lost somewhere. The only way to change this on the IIT front is to accept the fact that students need to be given a flexible framework within which they need to produce input. The focus has to be more on input than on result. Secondly, the flexibility setup has to be good enough for the students to allow them to pursue a career of their interest instead of a focussed education. The understanding exists that the system cannot suddenly abolish the well-defined degree system and let them free. But through introducing more optional courses students can have a better chance of studying the topics of their interest. The optional system as already exists in the institute electives can be further extended to inter-departmental courses. And eventually the focus on providing a Mechanical or Computer Science degree can be shifted to providing a general B. Tech degree which indicates the number of courses or credits pursued from each department. The third important factor is to remove the compulsion of attending classes and enforcing it to such an extent that a student as intelligent who can easily perform well in a course, because he knows it or he is that intelligent, whatever might be the case has to attend minimum 75% classes and waste his time and he gets an 'F' grade if he fails to do so. Does he deserve an 'F' grade? I don't think that he should be failed for more intelligence or knowledge. The fourth important consideration is to reduce the stress on the number CGPA and grades as the entire consideration of students rests on these and in the process they abolish there interests and see them as a threat to a career rather than a career itself. What can be done instead is to provide a complete index system reflecting the students performance in various departments. (as suggested earlier, the student should be free to choose courses from any department). A fifth consideration would be to introduce arts and humanity sciences as respectable fields in the education system and there would nothing better than the IITs to start with it. Foreign colleges are a good example of this ability of their structure to allow the student to pursue their interest. And finally the bureaucracy has to realize the importance of education as an asset to a student in its present form through helping him or her in pursuing the field of their own interest instead of forcing upon them an old illogical education structure.
I would like to share my articles on the forum here on my blog.
hem07ume wrote:
we have recently seen that the news of the md of tata steel, refusing to take on iit graduates in his company in outlook magazine creating ripples in the education community and the proffesional world.He talked openly of the degrading standard of iit's. He say's the PRESENT IITIANS ARE NO MORE THAT BRIGHT AND INQUISITIVE LOT BUT JUST A BUNCH OF ROBOTS WHO WORK ONLY FOR THEIR GRADES.Do you support him and if so please suggest measures to reverse this change that can wreck the iit image wordwide....
I wrote:
I support the above view and as a matter of fact this is the only way things can be brought about to the notice of the officials that the system of education in IITs needs a drastic change towards the interest of students. IITs are supposed to nurture the talent of students by helping them identifying the profession they are most suited for and honing their abilities to make it their career. But sadly enough our education system focuses more on marks and less on learning from the school system itself. The JEE entrance exam is made more of a milestone achievement in the minds of the students than the actual purpose behind good education. In the IIT system also, the entire focus is on grades and truly enough, IITians are not anything more than grade generating robots anymore. Those who chose to pursue their interests either end up in frustration or depression or witness a series of fail grades because of the rigid system of attendance and education. I believe that the entire education system has become more focussed on nothing more than marks and the understanding of proper education and the interest of student has been lost somewhere. The only way to change this on the IIT front is to accept the fact that students need to be given a flexible framework within which they need to produce input. The focus has to be more on input than on result. Secondly, the flexibility setup has to be good enough for the students to allow them to pursue a career of their interest instead of a focussed education. The understanding exists that the system cannot suddenly abolish the well-defined degree system and let them free. But through introducing more optional courses students can have a better chance of studying the topics of their interest. The optional system as already exists in the institute electives can be further extended to inter-departmental courses. And eventually the focus on providing a Mechanical or Computer Science degree can be shifted to providing a general B. Tech degree which indicates the number of courses or credits pursued from each department. The third important factor is to remove the compulsion of attending classes and enforcing it to such an extent that a student as intelligent who can easily perform well in a course, because he knows it or he is that intelligent, whatever might be the case has to attend minimum 75% classes and waste his time and he gets an 'F' grade if he fails to do so. Does he deserve an 'F' grade? I don't think that he should be failed for more intelligence or knowledge. The fourth important consideration is to reduce the stress on the number CGPA and grades as the entire consideration of students rests on these and in the process they abolish there interests and see them as a threat to a career rather than a career itself. What can be done instead is to provide a complete index system reflecting the students performance in various departments. (as suggested earlier, the student should be free to choose courses from any department). A fifth consideration would be to introduce arts and humanity sciences as respectable fields in the education system and there would nothing better than the IITs to start with it. Foreign colleges are a good example of this ability of their structure to allow the student to pursue their interest. And finally the bureaucracy has to realize the importance of education as an asset to a student in its present form through helping him or her in pursuing the field of their own interest instead of forcing upon them an old illogical education structure.
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