What is wrong with the Indian education system?

印度的教育体制怎么了？

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Anshul Agarwal, lives in India

Look at the boy on the left-

看看左边的这个男孩

He is Abhimanyu Sadasivan.

Abhimanyu was a 16-year old student in 11th grade and was found dead on the terrace of his family’s apartment in March, 2014. He committed suicide in the midst of his exams and left a suicide note in his chemistry exam sheet. On it, was written,

他叫阿比曼纽·萨达西万。

阿比曼纽是一名16岁的11年级学生，2014年3月，他被发现死在他家公寓的阳台上。他在考试期间自杀，在化学考试单上留下了遗书。上面写着，

"The CBSE system is based on mugging. Education should be about understanding and applying your knowledge. My death should be a lesson and a reason for the system to change.”

Apparently, he had a pretty high IQ. He liked reading and writing a lot.

He was not alone. There was 17-yr old Kriti Tripathi, a student at one of the Kota's coaching centers. She jumped to her death from a five-storey building in Kota in April this year. Though she had comfortably cleared the IIT entrance exams, she complained that studies in these centers subjected the students to unbearable stress and depression in her suicide note.

"Please Government of India HRD do something about these coaching institutes. They suck and should be shut down as soon as possible," she wrote.

“教育中央委员会系统就是打劫。教育应该是教人如何理解和应用你的知识。我的死应该成为一个教训，一个改变制度的理由。”

显然，他的智商相当高。他非常喜欢阅读和写作。

他并非特例。之前还有一位17岁的克里蒂特里帕蒂，她是科塔一家培训中心的学生。今年4月，她从哥打一幢五层楼的高楼跳下身亡。虽然她已经顺利通过了印度理工学院的入学考试，但她在遗书中抱怨说，在这些培训中心的学习让学生们承受着难以忍受的压力和抑郁。

“请印度政府对这些培训机构做点什么吧。他们糟透了，应该尽快关闭，”她写道。

And there were more. There was 21-yr old Jitesh from Haryana, a student of chemical engineering at IIT-B. He committed suicide by consuming a poisonous substance from the institute lab in May last year as he was depressed due to his poor academic performance. The suicide note stated that he regretted passing JEE exam to make it to IIT. There were 15-yr old Radha and Pragati from MP, who ended their life March this year by hanging from the ceiling of their rooms, for being under stress due to exams and unable to secure first rank in the examination.

The disturbing accounts are numerous. But all point to the same thing: Indian education system forces its pupils to live a pressure-filled life, demanding excellence in the form of an external reward: MARKS. This demand starts right from the begng of school life, and decides the fate of a person- to live a qualified life (as admission to colleges is based on these MARKS cut-off), as well as a dignified life (as everyone acknowledges the merits of being a top-scorer). This system emphasizes children’s report cards, instead of making them understand and apply what they are learning. And most importantly, it never asks them if they are satisfied with what they are learning in school. Never highlighting inner growth and development.

这样的事还有更多。哈里亚纳邦的21岁男孩吉提什是印度理工学院化学工程专业的学生。去年5月，他在研究所实验室吞服了一种有毒物质自杀身亡，当时他因为学业不佳而情绪低落。遗书上说他后悔通过了印度理工学院的JEE考试。15岁的Radha和Pragati来自中央邦，他们在今年3月在自己房间的天花板上上吊，结束了生命。他们因为考试压力太大而无法在考试中获得第一名。

令人不安的报道数不胜数。但所有的一切都指向同一件事：印度的教育体系迫使其学生过着充满压力的生活，要求学生在分数上出类拔萃。这种要求从学校生活伊始就开始了，决定了一个人能否过上好日子的命运(因为大学录取是基于这些分数线的)，以及能否拥有体面尊严的生活。这个体制强调的是孩子们的成绩单，而不是让他们理解和应用他们所学的东西。最重要的是，它从来不会问他们是否满意他们在学校学到的东西。从不强调学生内心的成长和发展。

This is what is wrong with the Indian education system.

1. A pressure-filled, non-relaxng lifestyle.

这就是印度教育系统的问题所在。

1。充满压力，不能有丝毫放松。

"Enough studies, now go play today!" "Take some time out daily to dance, that's what you like!"

These kids never hear these sentences. All they hear is "now go study." If these students were allowed to relax daily, perhaps they would have developed a healthy resistance against the pressures of life. But no. These young people were instead pushed beyond their limits to achieve an always-going-after-marks lifestyle.

“今天学得够多的了，去玩吧!”“每天花点时间出去跳舞，那是你喜欢的!”

这些孩子从未听大人这样说过。他们听到的只有“现在就去学习”。如果允许这些学生每天都能放松放松，也许就会对生活压力有健康的抵抗力。但可惜的是并没有。相反，这些年轻人被要求超越极限，只为了分数而活。

2. Making report cards the supreme focus in life.

Focus on Report cards

2。让成绩单成为生活中最大的焦点。

关注成绩单

“What do you think of your studies?”

These questions are never asked of these students. Rather what they are asked is, “Did you get the highest marks on your report card?”

“你觉得你的成绩怎么样?”

没人会这样问这些学生。相反地，他们会被问:“你是最高分吗?”

3. Making self-worth dependent on external rewards: marks.

Self-worth dependent on marks

3.让学生的自我价值依赖于外部奖励:分数。

自我价值取决于分数

"You are only worthy if you get the highest marks."

A child who is raised on this piece of wisdom will always feel unworthy whenever he scores less than the topmost. Self-worth comes from self, not from marks. And no one can always be on the top; leaving them with a sense of unworthiness for a lifetime.

“只有获得最高分，你才有价值。”

如果一个孩子在这种想法的熏陶下长大，当他得分低于最高分时，他就会觉得自己没有价值。自我价值来自自我，而不是标志。没有人能永远站在最高处；这会让他们在一辈子里都找不到自我价值。

Anonymous

INDIAN education system is doing only one thing "CONVERTING HORSES INTO DONKEYS"

Now let me explain you how.

印度的教育系统只做一件事“把马变成驴”

现在我来解释一下他们是怎么做到的。

1.Teachers never teach you.YES they never teach you they just impose it on you. You are a goof student if you "ANSWER THERE QUESTION CORRECTLY", like seriously? If I know the answer correctly then why the hell would I attend your lecture. If you ask any question you are a nuisance for them. How can someone learn if they cant even ask a question. Forget about question you have to give only correct answer this seriously makes me laugh sometimes

2.THE WORD CALLED "DISCIPLINE" - If a teacher cannot control a class of few students how the hell they can be called teachers. So due to there inability they IMPOSED a word called discipline. As a kid it's your BASIC RIGHT to make noise. Do you expect noise from someone in corporate? No! Then?

3.KILLING THE SUBJECTIVITY- Everyone knows that 2+2=4. its objective but does corporate pay it for that? HELL NO. They pay you for subjective knowledge like how to crack a deal? Does your teacher teaches you that? LOL NO

4.MERMORISING THE THINGS- This is the thing i hate most like does anyone in corporate makes you things remember? No they have google . Does remembering the date when Alexander was born make diffrence? NO

1。老师从不教你知识。是的，他们从来不会教你，他们只是把知识强加给你。如果你“正确地回答了他们的问题”，你就是个糊涂虫。如果我知道答案，我干嘛还要听你讲课。如果你提出任何问题，你就是他们的麻烦。如果一个人连问题都不会问，他怎么会学习呢?忘记问题吧，你只要给出正确的答案，这真的让我觉得搞笑。

2。有个词叫做“纪律”——如果老师不能控制班级里的少数学生，他们怎么能被称为老师呢?由于他们的无能，他们强加了一个词，就是纪律。作为一个孩子，制造噪音是基本权利。你公司的人会发出噪音吗?不会!然后呢?

3。扼杀主观性-大家都知道2+2=4。这是客观事实，但是有公司为这个事实付钱么？他们只为你的主观知识付钱，比如如何达成交易?你的老师会教你这些吗?哈哈，并不会。

4。背诵——这是我最讨厌的事情，公司里有人会让你背诵吗?不会，因为他们有谷歌。记不记得亚历山大出生的日子有什么区别吗?没有

Praanshu Khanna, Final Year, EC Engineering. Love IoT Projects, Hate Exams.

When it comes to Indian Education System, we are dependent. Yes, we are dependent on three things:

说到印度的教育系统，我们是依赖的。是的，我们依赖于三件事:

1.Understanding the concept

2.Teacher's Mood

3.Marks you obtain(which includes factors such as hand-writing, vocabulary, etc)

1。理解概念

2。老师的心情

3。你的分数(会考虑书法、词汇等因素)

So, and average kid who has had troubles with his hand-writing would know the pain on getting hit by a wooden scale on his palm every week(I had a good hand-writing).

I remember a topper in my class couldn't define current and said that, "It's not exam time yet so I haven't studied!"

Why do you need to mug up the definition of current? It's a concept! You're in 4th semester of college, studying to become Electronics and Communication Engineer ffs!

I'm frustrated how people here give more importance to marks.

P.S. She has a CPI of 9.02 and had like 94% in her boards and 84 in her JEE. Compare that to her responses, you'd know what's important.

所以，如果一个普通的孩子写字难看，他绝对知道每周手掌被木秤敲击的痛苦(我的书法很不错)。

我记得我班上的一个尖子生无法定义电流，他说，“现在还不是考试时间，所以我还没有学!”

为什么你需要突击学习电流的定义?这只是一个概念!都已经是大学第四学期了，你们可是要当电子和通信工程师的!

我对他们如此重视分数感到失望。

另外，她的CPI是9.02，分数排名94%，在JEE中排名84%。与她的回答相比，你会知道什么是重要的。