The future of a country depends on the abilities of the young generation and it is the responsibility of the country to identify and enhance skills of every individual to gain optimum output from every citizen.
Further, the economic growth of a country is depicted by the amount of foreign exchange it owns and one sure fire way of ensuring a continuous flow of foreign exchange is to create a big patent base. For this we need to generate more and more research and generate ideas which could be transformed into products that generates long term benefits.
A child starting his education needs to be continuously tested for the abilities displayed by him/her and guided accordingly throughout his training stage to enable him to reach the goals desired by him and to use his capabilities to achieve the actualization of self and betterment of the society.
For the first few years when his mental and capabilities have just started developing, we need to ensure that he/she gets a conducive environment where we develop a strong morality, an open mind and a healthy body. For this from the age of 3 to the age of 5(The formative years), the education should majorly focus on making the child understand the basics of morality, discipline and 'the general meaning on good'. It should also include healthy sports and games that are aimed at instilling qualities of leadership and innovativeness at the same time providing entertainment and adequate exercise of physical and mental capabilities.
After this from the age of 5 to 10, the education should focus on teaching him about his/her culture, introducing concepts of religion, history,geography,language etc of the country. Also it is required to impart knowledge about the basics of science and mathematics.
At the end of the year, an aptitude test needs to be held to test the physical and mental capabilities of the child and a comparison needs to be made to the ambitions of the child to decide the future of the education. Based on the evaluation, the further course structures should be made such that they enhance the capabilities of the child towards achieving the desired ambition. e.g if the child wants to go into defence services, the course should emphasize on developing physical capabilities, leadership qualities, scientific skills and most importantly discipline. Whereas if the child wants to be an athlete, development of physical capabilities should be given more importance. If the child wants to a scientist, development of physical capabilities should not be given lower priority to development of scientific skills. In short from now on the education structure needs to be more flexible and more moulded keeping in mind individual aptitude and capabilities and thus more personalised. This should exist from the age of 11 to 18.
During this time tests should be taken to check whether the child is correctly responding to the course properly and is actually gaining from it and make changes as necessary.
After 18 a test needs to undertaken to check what are the ranges of profession the person is suited for and guide him/her to a graduate course for the same. At the final year, the person needs to be tested for various things like, what are the specialisations that need to be introduced to create a trained individual with special skills better suited for a job set, whether he is more suited to corporate environment or he needs to be put in the government enterprises and whether he/she is suited for further education. e.g if a person is graduating in computers, he may be suited for specialising in databases and is eligible for having further education in distributed databases. A person who is more suited to be a politician, needs more emphasis on developing better people skills, culture and morality exposures, management and financial skills with leadership quality development and philosophy.
At this time, it is important for non government organisations like IEEE, ACM, CSI, SIAM, IET, IAENG etc provide mentorship facilties and facilitate industrial trainings, internships etc for enhancing the scope of education through combining practical knowledge with theoretical knowledge. This will also help identify individuals who are better suited to Research and Development activities and can be separately trained into more effective product and idea generators.
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