The other day, met a few friends from Foundation and was discussing relevance of certain subjects and topics at the school. Incidentally, came across Kenny Jacob's (http://www.kenneyjacob.com) website and found a similar topic on his page too.
Relevance of certain subjects and topics has always been a prime discussion in the education field. While some of us have been fighting for introducing more relevant subjects like life skills at the school level, some conservatives still fight it out for the traditional methods. While per Se, I am not against the traditional methods, I would also like to see introduction of certain life skill topics like public speaking, leadership skills, Analysis as against by-heart etc. Also, certain parameters on which a student is tested also looks outdated to me (e.g: handwriting!). How important is it for a student to be judged on handwriting and get lower scores coz of this? Knowledge is knowledge whether the student can write it out or say it out.
A serious thinking needs to be done on this and a awareness needs to be created at the schools and college levels on relevance and irrelevance of certain subjects at the school and college levels. Also, the time has now come to involve industry specialists in designing the course wears and curriculum for the students.
More thoughts on this is welcome please.
Monday, January 14, 2008
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