Real Education...!

. Namita Bhandare deserves kudos for the write-up. She rightly states that our education system must be overhauled and needs some imaginative curriculum. Education is about gaining skill,respect, a job and of course improving our ideas and creative solutions. In America, education means freedom, all encompassing, as it should be. Unfortunately, India still believes in exam-centric education which involves mostly memorizing the syllabus and cramming for an examination at the eleventh hour. It is mostly knowing the syllabus by heart without understanding it and its practical application. There is a need for our politicians to give importance to the girl's education. Nitish Kumar's pet scheme to give cycles to young girls as an incentive to go to school, has paid him dividends! It is not surprising to know that lack of toilets in girl's school is the real reason for many girls drop out by secondary school.It is disheartening to know that only 13 million of our 220 million high school children reach college study.Sarva Siksha Abhiyan should cater for higher studies too.We must make our University education at par if not better than foreign universities.Most of our MPs, CEOs and even our PM Manmohan Singh have been educated in foreign universities. Moreover, getting a foreign degree is a fashion statement  just like speaking in English, rather than true education. The author is fully justified in saying,education is nothing if it does not teach life skills and humane values !