BHUBANESWAR: Language Barriers in Education: The language barriers in our education system is making our youth, their talent and confidence down only because they are not sound in a particular language that is English. The main focus of the students has gone in learning English rather than polishing their expertise in which they are good at. The efforts, time and hard work they put in learning one single language could have given them an innumerable amount of success in some other skill of their talent and choice.
Not all the students come from a well to do background so they can afford English medium schools. For that matter many English medium schools which recruit teachers they themselves are not sufficiently fluent in English. So only prioritizing English as a mode of teaching-learning process and the language as a symbol of class hierarchy in different spheres is certainly putting down the lion portion of our young population at backseat.
For example, if we take the whole Northern belt of our country, like UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, etc. holding a major portion of population, the students there are so laborious but lack money to avail education in a better school. As the quality of the school is bad, they lack command in English. So they lose their confidence at all stages in life.
In other foreign countries such as China, they speak their own language in every top meetings, events, programs etc. The top most officials in China would be speaking their language at any situation. Now there is technology to translate the language directly when one speaks and listens just through the real time converter. Moreover, there can be translators whenever required. So the main focus of the task would be on the the brain storming, policy making, strategy, talent, invention, creation, like productive work not on learning language.
The education system in India is not one for everyone. Different people belonging to different economic strata send their children to schools which suits their bank balance. A student from rural, poor family goes to a government run school where there is no system of teaching. A student from an urban rich family goes to a better school, can afford all the necessary scopes and opportunities, gets exposure of good teachers, environments etc. The these two categories of students later are peddled as competitors which is utterly unfair in the first place.
The nation has to implement ‘one nation, one education system’ to curb such deep rooted issues. If the schooling system was good, there were no need for private coaching in education.
Women’s Participation in Workforce:
India has to increase the female workforce participation. The women in India are still lagging behind when it comes to workforce participation. Our society has divided the role of man and woman in a very weird manner. The man has been assigned with earning money and woman is entitled to the household responsibilities and protecting the respect of the family. This division itself is a faulty discrimination not only for woman but also for a man.
It is not that the women are not capable. They have proved themselves in every possible fields. The aviation field, healthcare sectors, education, even the top notch spheres which used to be known as male dominated like science, technology, military, Air force, railway and so on. So equal opportunity should be there more vibrantly irrespective the gender division of labour.
-OdishaAge
