Centralized Education System

 Centralized Education System

The way to eradicate these problems is have a centralized educational system through visual and hearing facilities in all corners of the state and the country. The changes required in the present educational system are as follows:

1.   There will be a centralized educational system.

2.   The system will have mostly audio-video systems of study. The reason to this is because students at young rarely grasp the audio or writing way of teaching. Visual teaching is a must for effective response from the young minds.

3.   The date of studying a particular chapter should be decided before the year starts and the whole syllabus for the particular class should be completed within the stipulated time i.e. one academic year.

4.   This system (discussed in point 3) should be centralized, i.e. every school has to complete the chapter in the stipulated time.

5.   The system used in the urban areas will be same as that used in the rural areas. No discrimination should be made as it will be centralized. This will allure students from both urban and rural areas.

6.   There will be a website containing all subjects of all classes. The chapters will initially be locked. As the chapters are covered, the students can access them online at their will as they get unlocked day by day.

7.   The teacher will not have the provision of unlocking any chapter before time in school or at home. After coming to school, he or she will get the code to access it. The password will be changed regularly by the officials of the centralized system.

8.   There will be less homework, all stress hould be given to the classworks in front of the teachers. Most students try to escape the study at home, specially in rural areas. So, classworks are more important.

9.   In audio-visual teaching technique, where there is no homework, books are not required. The whole chapter studied on a particular day will be available in the internet.

10.               The rural students coming from families below poverty line will be given hard copy of the chapters studied on the particular day free of cost. Same goes with the urban students.

11.               The hard copy is available to students above poverty line, but they have to buy them.

12.               Economically, the system is worth as the cost of books is reduced. The urban people have fair knowledge of using computers. Parents and guardians will help their child to go through the chapter taught on that day at home, if required. Besides the output of the students will increase. Recent studies say that the percentage of perception by reading is 30%, by hearing is 50% and by seeing is 80%. So, surely there will be the development of a huge population of students.

Thus, the centralized system will surely help to make a better future for the generations to come. But, my theory of improving the nation’s future is not a completely new thing as it had been applied in some form in other developing countries. There are African countries where most of the people are rural in nature. The development of their nation is going on at a steady rate by the NGOs. Their nation’s government is also with them. We have NGOs in our country that can help us, but, it may not be a perfect plan. To make a new system applied to an older one is surely a tough work, and that to in our country with so much population, is a huge challenge. But slowly and steadily we can do it.

"Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in Man"- Swami Vivekananda

My Gen-next edu plan

The important part is to implement the master plan. The process may take a year or more. Sudden changes in the education system may cause panic among students, teachers and guardians to cope up easily. The master plan to implement it is given below.

1. All chapters of all subjects from kg standard to standard four should be recorded by eminent teachers. The teachers who will record their voice should be clear and should have a good depth to emphasize the important parts of the chapters. The whole may take maximum of one month for proper completion. If syllabus is revised within a year, then the revised syllabus should be recorded in the coming years. Again when further revisions are made, the knowledge can be passed to the schools via internet (urban schools) and radio transmission at a particular time (rural schools).
2. Within a year, all schools (urban and rural, if possible) will be equipped with the audio and video facilities in the class.
3. Next, the recorded voices will be distributed to all the schools in pen drives and internets (if downloading is required). The urban schools can easily download and use it in the class. The audio files are for the teachers to learn and know about the changed topics in the chapters for a particular subject.
4. The teachers in the rural may not be equipped with the facilities of internet or computer systems. For them, the radio is one of the modes of knowledge about the outside World. So, the whole syllabus will be transmitted through the radio at a certain frequency at a particular time chapter wise. The knowledge about which chapter will be broadcasted at what time is given to the rural schools previously. The broadcast will be repeated again at night. Then, they will easily get a glance of the changing ways of education. This will be cheap and can be completed properly within a month.
5. The teachers have to be trained with the visual process. There are 50,000 schools in Kolkata and 10, 00,000 schools outside Kolkata at primary level. The training sessions will be conducted in some 50 schools. One experienced teacher from each subject from each school has to attend the training session.  The training session will be conducted in the hall or auditorium. After the training sessions, question and answer session will be conducted for further clarifications of doubts. The whole session will be videotaped and will be sent to all schools for their reference.
6. Meanwhile another group will conduct sessions in the rural schools in the similar manner. Only in this case the number of teachers per session will be more and teaching by posters will be taught elaborately. After the training sessions, question and answer session will be conducted for further clarifications of doubts.
7. The whole process of visual teaching will be completed within a year. The sessions will not be provided in the weekends (if required then weekdays will be included). The sessions will show the ways of teaching.
8. Thus, after the sessions, if any more doubts are their then they can submit them to the headmaster of their respective schools. They will communicate with the centralized system members.
9. Within this month time, the videos preparation will be started. The videos will consist of slides (e.g. PowerPoint slides) and some motion pictures. The motion pictures will be mostly animated for lower classes as it will increase the interest of the students and they will stick to it, thus increasing their efficiency.
10. For the schools, if video facility is not possible due to electricity connections problems, then they will be provided with posters of the slides. The videos will be converted to posters. The teachers can teach them through pictorial representations of the chapters.
11. Within a year, the installation of visual facilities in all urban schools and poster facilities in all rural schools will be over properly.
12. Hence, within a year, a new and improved education system can be implemented efficiently and economically.

The state of West Bengal is always changing and improving. Now literacy rate is just below 70%. We require proper and centralized development for all children. So the new educational system, Gen-next edu is a sure shot success mantra for the upcoming generations to come. The budget is not very high with respect to the increase in efficiency of the students. I think that increase in literacy is justified to any budget. It will equip both the rural and urban students to think for themselves and their family for a better future of our country. Development should start from the foundation itself. Together all can create a better tomorrow.