September 5 Special: Why Many Qualified Teachers in India Become 'Incapable' To Teach?

September 5th is considered to be a special day for citizens across India. The day celebrates the birthday of Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan who was a professor, academic, philosopher as well as a politician who served as the first Vice-President of Bharat (India) and later on became the country's second president.

Dr. Radhakrishan has achieved various prestigious awards during his lifetime. Some of them include:

Bharat Ratna (1954)
Peace Prize of The German Book Trade (1961)
Templeton Prize (1975)
Order of Merit (1963)
Order of the Aztec Eagle (1954)
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1954)

Apart from all his professions, he was primarily recognized as a great teacher and was celebrated by many students.

One of his famous quotes is:

"True Teachers are those who help us think for Ourselves"

The System of Education in Ancient India:

Here's what Abhijit Chavda, an Indian physicist and historian has to say about the ancient education system of Bharat:

Why do many teachers in current India become 'Incapable' to teach?

First of all, the word 'Incapable' here is used with the intent to describe the situation of teachers in India. Every week or so, a new video pops up on YouTube highlighting the problems faced by teachers especially.

Hence, I decided to conduct a small research and try to figure out what exactly goes wrong with our teachers.

Based on the research, a report can be formed in the following way:

There are a variety of reasons why value addition in education in the majority of Indian schools are little or none. A few factors have been listed below with explanations that seem to impact the most:

Syllabus covered in the education system:

The Indian Education System is adapted from the ancient Colonial education system that was meant to 'Mentally Colonize' factory workers so that do not have independent thoughts and particularly become self-dependent by ancient India's glorious knowledge.

When the Industrial Revolution began, there was an urgent need for more factory workers who would just take in orders and execute them well.

But since the people of Bharat were habituated to think and decide independently, it is said that the British had faced difficulty fulfilling their ambitions. Hence, they used education as a powerful tool to 'Brainwash' the people of the country to accordingly meet their needs.

This curriculum was designed with a complete focus on rote learning and so-called obedience where the student had to obey each and every word of the teacher, ultimately crushing his independent thought process.

The rote-learning was made possible thanks to the syllabus covered in it which had almost zero practical applications in the life of an ordinary man.

The leaders of Independent India decided to adopt this system as it is without giving a second thought to its impact on the future of the country.

The last recorded major change in the syllabus of textbooks was said to be done in the 1980s, which is obvious by the date is obsolete today. The syllabus even today hides a colonizing mentality with almost zero practical applications and a complete curb on Independent Thinking.

A Huge Generation Gap

To put it in simple words, the generation gap here can be referred to as a vast difference between the thought process and analogy of real life outside the school/college of a teacher vs a student.

The youth of modern India don't have or didn't feel basic insecurities that the people of their parent's generation and before had to face.

People who were born before the 1990s had tremendous pressure on their shoulders to rebuild a country of 1 Billion population all from scratch.

Yet it was until 2007 that India became a Trillion-Dollar economy and at least a considerable chunk of its population entered the Middle-Class category.

The combination of a colonizing education system, poverty, and hunger, extreme political events, mindset of a worker instead of an owner all 'bombarded' the working population of India where ultimately it became a 'norm' to excel in the rote-learning system, get a qualification and search for jobs.

But the modern youth of India today has witnessed a richer 'Bharat' that has great ambitions to become a 5 Trillion Dollar economy in the next four-five years. He/She has a more practical way of solving real-life problems and hates to curb Independent thoughts and supports developing their internal skill.

Lack of Interest in many Faculties:

Here is an interesting case study conducted by an International Motivational Speaker and Founder & CEO of Bada Business Dr. Vivek Bindra which speaks everything about the faculties who teach in the majority of universities in India: