Effective Education
Expected Outcome
- Positive attitude
- Intelligence
- Competencies having demand
- Critical & logical thinking
- Excellence & Quality
- Productivity
- High moral values
- Ethical
- Respect & Empathy
- Engage only in legal acts
Attributes of Effective Education
- Objectives-based (rather than mere exams & certificate oriented).
- Student centric rather than teacher centric.
- Facilitate explore knowledge instead of spoon feeding facts & theory.
- Build competencies through activity-based learning.
- Facilitate continuous self-evaluation.
- Build ethical & professional learning environment.
- Provide leadership opportunities.
- Focus on quality & not quantity.
- Encourage to strive for excellence.
- Build effective communication skills.
- Build team work (as oppose to study in isolation).
- Continuous improvement of the education process.
- Plan & prepare for the future.
- Innovation with new technologies.
- Make education more affordable & accessible.
Features of Modern Student Evaluation System
- Check the understanding, and NOT the memory.
- Evaluate if one can apply the knowledge to practical situations.
- Test the ability to handle complexities.
- Check the intellectual capacity.
- Check the attitude.
- Examination questions/assignments must be interesting & challenging, rather than induce stress and dullness.
- Answers must have the room for imagination and own opinions. (Discussion type questions.)
- Questions/problems must be future oriented.
- Examination papers & assignments must be proof read for 0% errors.
- Unbiased professional evaluation.
- Do NOT test outdated facts.
- Do NOT expect exact points mentioned in a reference or text books.
- Have room for alternative valid points.
- In exams, do NOT restrict students from accessing books or internet. (Exam environment must be similar to real working environment.)
Attributes of Miseducation
- Exams centric.
- Teacher centric.
- Test student's memory.
- Focus on quantity.
- Does not promote critical thinking.
- Often under the influence of religions.
- Try to eliminate education opportunities by various undue hurdles.
- Allow violance like ragging.
- Produce people with no real demand to the society or industry.
Results of Right Education Vs. Miseducation
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Have high value & demand in open and competitive society.
Have little value demand in open and competitive society.
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Critical thinkers & change the future direction of the society.
Follow the popular opinions & traditions.
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Have employability & opportunities anywhere in the world.
Have little or no employability & opportunities outside the country.
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Help creating more career & business opportunities in the field.
Try to close opportunities & create barriers to enter in to the field.
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Do not rely on government or politicians.
Rely on the government for survival.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."