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HOW TO SHAPE COLLEGE
EDUCATION TO SHAPE UP
TOMORROW’S NATION
Dr. Chandan Medatwal
Assistant Professor (OB HR), NIIT
University, Neemrana, Rajasthan, India
“Give a man a fi sh- you feed him just for day. But
teach him how to catch fi sh and you feed him for a
lifetime”
This adage itself justifi es the title of this article,
still, let’s delve a bit more into how nation building
can be done by strengthening the skills of school
going children through a proper education system.
T
here is a concept called ‘Tabula Rasa’, which
has been researched upon keenly by many
prominent philosophers and psychologists.
It means that humans are born without any in-
built mental matter. Hence, all the knowldge and
development comes through experiences and
perception. Cognitive psychologists have pointed
out that children are like Blank Slates. You can
write anything on them and they would reciprocate
and radiate the same script. So, you understand,
how important is it for the education system to
to impart such skills for the developing children,
so that they can grow up to brighten the nation’s
future. Their insights and foresights must be
developed with proper understanding and futuristic
orientation. Real success of citizens is in the success
and strengthening of the nation and vice versa, as
there is no nation, would could be complete without
its people and no people who could be identifi ed
without their nation. Without a state, people would
go haywire and without people, the state would be
useless.
From micro to macroeconomic level, we at the
adult stage, can directly contribute to shape the
future of our nation. But where did we acquire this
potential from? Was it through the television? Or the
Radio? How are Indian companies that are around
75 years old, contributing to the economic growth
of our nation? Ofcourse, the genesis is the School.
There are civil servants, because of whom our
nation is able to run its policies. These bureaucrats
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have provided the sculpture to the nation for a
convinient functioning for the people. How has it
all happened? Their foundation has been education
too. But there is a sure need to re-evaluate our
educational system, to check whether it supports
the mindset of nation building in young children
or just individual growth.
There are several government schemes and
NGO lead programs for running intensive camps on
education, like communication skills’ enhancement
by the National Training Center, Delhi; NGOs
like Pratham also run a lot of Train the Trainer
programs. Such programs have low cost investment
and high impact on education. But their success
depends on the enthusiasm shown by the teachers
and the students.
Across the globe, education reform embraces the
idea that trivial changes in education will have large
social returns in citizen health, wealth, well-being
and nation building. From ancient times, one goal
that has been persistent is to reduce the expense of
the conventional education. Higher education is
fl ourishing in many aspects, be it management or
technical. Their curriculum as well as their extra-
curricular activities are the pathfi nders for hidden
talents. There is not just one aspect of the child that