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Mangalore: Education system should change with time - Mohandas Pai at SAC event

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Mangalore: Education system should change with time - Mohandas Pai at SAC event

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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (VM)

Mangalore, Mar 8: Lauding St Aloysius College for all its achievements over the decades, T V Mohandas Pai, chairman of Manipal Global Education on Friday March 8 said that other institutions should also change their system of education and keep up with the times and train students to become global citizens.

Addressing the gathering during the 133rd College Day celebrations held at the College premises on Friday, Pai conveyed Women’s Day greetings to the gathering and said, "The past years were not kind to women as we have seen various atrocities and insecurity faced by them. We should make sure that women live a life of dignity, and get all the rights as laid down in the Constitution."

He further added, "I am sure women will soon dominate all the sectors as they are attaining prosperity and have stepped into various fields. In the US about 55% of the women are graduates and most of them have entered into the corporate world which also indicates that women in the next 15-20 years will dominate the political sphere too.

"Any new development in the world will lead us to face new challenges and people who win these challenges are those with high capabilities. For education to be competent, it has to change with times. Getting information from sources will not be competitive knowledge, most important is to use the obtained knowledge in solving life problems and be creative, innovative and emerge in a new way. We should create a problem-solving mindset and make sure that students go into a voyage of discovery," he said.

"Technology is dominating our lives as we are entirely dependent on it. For example, Facebook has the largest online population and within a few years it will cross China’s actual population which is 1.3 billion," said Mohandas Pai.

Fr Joseph Rodrigues, rector of St Aloysius College presided over the programme.

Principal Fr Swebert D’Silva, Fr Denzil Lobo, finance officer Fr Andrade, registrar (evaluations) Dr Narahari, vice principals John D’Silva, Judith Pinto, Ronald Pinto, Fr Francis Almeida, convener Prof Ligoury Mendonca and president of students' council Sanath Achar shared the dais.

Various cultural programmes like classical, folk, regional, fusion dances performed by the students enthralled the audience and created a festive mood. The College choir sang the College anthem.

Prizes of various competitions held during the academic year were also distributed on the occasion.

 
  

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  • Mahesh, Udupi

    Sat, Mar 09 2013

    Thomas Alva Edison had only 3 months of schooling in his Entire life and changed this world for once and forever.
    From ordinary bulbs to digital recorders he dominates eveything!
    To know what Education really is everyone should read 'out of our minds' by Dr.Ken Robinson.

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  • Bulsam, Mangalore

    Sat, Mar 09 2013

    There are five things about the Indian education system that we hope changes.
    The evil of mugging or rote learning is yet to be wiped out from a majority of Indian schools. Owing to the fixated style of question papers that have been doing the rounds in board exams from time immemorial, rote learning has continued. Rote learning is sometimes disparaged with the derogative terms parrot fashion, regurgitation, cramming or mugging because one who engages in rote learning may give the wrong impression of having understood what they have written or said.
    A student is evaluated only on the basis of his/her performance for the duration of three hours of the exam. If the axis of grading and marking is shifted to classroom participation, project work, communication and leadership skills and extracurricular performance, only then only a genuine student will shine out.
    We look down upon vocational streams and look up to medicine, engineering, the IIT’s and the IIM’s. Students at the school level need to be educated through career counseling regarding the kind of streams that exist and the importance of each of them play to make an economy diverse.
    We have just three options to after Class 10 and they’re stuck with Science, Arts or Commerce. If they’re not good enough for either of these, they set into diplomas and certificate courses. Indian education system needs to introduce combination courses in which students can opt for a major and a minor subject.
    Tuition classes are mushrooming because students say that the teaching in schools is lax and not good enough for them to clear exams. The teachers say that in the tuition class students jump ahead many chapters before they are even taught in school. This makes them loose all motivation and steam to attend school in the first place.
    Now we see some changes slowly being made by education providers. But I wish Mr. Mohandas Pai and others should pressurise the Education Ministry to look into this matter.

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  • Langoolacharya., Belman/Washington,DC.

    Sat, Mar 09 2013

    People,

    Our education system need a major surgery....it should be more practical and hands on like in western countries...sooner it happens its better.

    Our higher education is tougher,impractical,Inflexible and less hands on....most of the things taught are not relevant to current world......

    Jai Hooooo

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  • Sunil, Mumbai

    Sat, Mar 09 2013

    I think you are absolutely right. I am into the industrial sector for past 10 years and I still remember my Engineering subjects and guess what I found only 50% - 60% was relevant to actual industrial practice.

    I think this is because the lecturers, professors and people who actually design the syllabus do not have much industrial practice.

    Gradually I found out that some of the topics given in the text books published by Indian authors were also not upto the mark but we relied on such text books just because they were easy to mug up and write the exam....scoring marks was the main objective there nothing else.

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