DailyPost 2869
MANUFACTURING DREAMS…
With the going down of sincere hard work in most trying circumstances and making your way through all by yourself through the complex yet straight Indian educational system, the development of parallel systems were bound to develop. Failure was not an option and it needed to be camouflaged by the educational system itself. Families mostly started believing that only lack of resources are coming in the way of achieving success, which in India at the first level means clearing a competitive exam and getting a professional seat or clearing an exam for job recruitment.
It was slowly becoming an acceptable thought that professional educational intervention towards the end of an educational career could pull you through to India’s best jobs. The impression was also being spread that educators providing you this intervention are critical to your success. The whole philosophy of professional competitive exams to select the few best and brightest were being challenged. The serious competitors with excellent track record in this given environment started believing that it is better to get some outside professional support. Not getting into the Kota factory, we delve into the quagmire of this intervention for the Indian civil services exam.
This intervention is civil services coaching and Delhi is at its vortex. From humble beginnings today it has become a monster outside anyone’s control. Mercenary commercialization apart, what is really intriguing is manufacturing dreams and selling them to an audience, which in all likelihood will never make it. The media and its new avatar social media have created cult status for the so-called coaching “educators.” Some have become household names. Their progeny is in question and so is their expertise. The creation of dreams and selling it by mesmerising the students can be termed as the biggest criminal act in the field of modern Indian education. You have to get deep in this ecosystem to believe to what level the rot has seeped in.
These educators and their institutions provide you that leap of faith that you will clear. The results are there for everyone to verify. But who is interested in doing that? One simple example is how many of the hindi medium students have cleared year on year? How big is this industry in that comparison? How many of the advertisements are even true in word and spirit? What is the expertise of the ones who teach? Can education be imparted in such circumstances? The man made stress created by such coaching institutes in a variety of ways to extract even the last paisa out of the student can take you nowhere. There are two cardinal principles to the game: how much can a student be improved and secondly is there a need to coach a student for general studies, or writing an essay on ethics or for preparing in the subject one has graduated or done post-graduation?
COACHING NEEDS TO BE HIGHLY REGULATED TO SAVE THE SANITY OF BOTH OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND THE COMPETITIVE EXAMS.
Sanjay Sahay
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