In pursuit of Quality

Quality is something that is very relative and contemplative. I find it more like a jalebi - the savory Indian sweet. The spiral shape ensures you to see the centre but never reach it. 

The Indian Education System is witnessing a tremendous change from outside as well as within its purview. The need for quality education, extricates the best of ideas from the most eminent people in the system. These people formulate, propose, implement and reflect upon the various policies and guidelines to strengthen the education system. 

With so many guidelines and policies, the education system gets structured and crispy clear to adhere to, but at the same time it gets strangulated and stifled. The statutory bodies and all, demand an independent and stringent implementation of policies along with reporting, that ensures the teachers are busy throughout the year to prove to them; the best of education and institution. 

When teachers are more worried about undertaking activities for compliance and report submission, then obviously, teaching remains just a formality. The discussion on 'Teaching is an art' or 'Teaching is science'; takes the turn for 'Teaching is a formality'. And why should it not be ? When children in current times have to be aware of inter and multi disciplinary courses, then undertaking various activities benefits all. The practical exposure ensures experiential learning too. 

This is what forms the paradox of the Indian Education System and defies the purpose of defining its quality. Stakeholders question the exorbitant fees to be paid with no assurance of employability in an already over populated nation where the system tries in the best way to assure quality there by comprising teaching and stakeholders who are disillusioned with the idea of pursuing education with no gains in sight. 

In trying to ensure quality, the teachers put in their efforts not in teaching but in its administration and management, so as to enlighten young minds who succeed in projecting 'know it all and dare it all' attitude for a situation that is more chaotic. But in chaos, symmetry rules. We, as citizens look up to the educational institutes to channelize young minds in the best customizable way.