Education System by Hithesh Choudhary
hey there everyone hitesh here and
welcome to my home and welcome to the
tedx talk as well
i never thought that i’ll be saying
these two things and the same
sentence giving a tedx talk right from
the comfort of sofa
in the home this is really a strange
time
now since you’re already at my home
let’s talk about an unforeseen journey
and talking just about me in my home
would be rude
so let’s talk about an unforeseen
journey of a student
not just a student journey of
all the student who goes through an
indian education system
right from their preschool to their 12th
standard
this journey is going to put up a lot of
questions in your mind
now i’m not saying i know the answers of
these questions
neither i’m saying that i’m right
neither i’m saying i’m wrong
figuring out answers of all of this
question is responsibility
on the shoulders of all of us so
figuring out answer of some of these
really ambiguous question is on let me
take you today on the journey of a
student right from the preschool
till the 12th standard so let’s start
with the preschool
life of a regular student in india is
extremely competitive it is so much
full of competition and sometimes this
student
doesn’t even have idea that he’s even
competing in the race
whenever there is a newborn baby the
first thing that parents
do is enroll their students in the
preschool
now he’s competing even for the
preschool
usually principal takes interviews of
these kids
these toddlers who cannot even remember
their name
in the age where he should be learning
from his
or her grandparents or maybe his mother
or father
that where is your nose where are your
eyes
what comes after two what comes after
five
in that age that scared student is
sitting in front of a chair in front of
a principal
to get an admission in the pre-school
i don’t know if it is right or not
that’s your job to figure it out
but i think competition on that level
that shocks me somehow this student
actually
survives in the preschool somehow don’t
know how they promote them
but somehow he survives and eventually
he moves into school and the standards
like
first second or third where he learns a
little bit about the stuff
and this is the age where students love
to play games
why they shouldn’t it’s so much fun they
asked
their dad that hey dad i should be
joining some academy like cricket
because
it’s so much fun to play the game and
his dad sees that all of the kids and
his friends
kids are going into the academy he
enrolls him in the academy
now this kid gets so much interest in
the cricket that he says hey
i want to become a cricketer and at the
exact same
moment his parents says that hey you
shouldn’t become a cricketer you should
focus more on
studies there is nothing in the sports
much in india there is so much of
competition every guy wants to become a
cricketer
and i am sitting here thinking that if
cricket
is having so much of competition haven’t
you ever looked in the people who are
preparing for the government jobs
i’m pretty sure that is much more
crowded there
and in the meantime we are having this
discussion that whether you should focus
more on your cricket skills or not at
the meantime
there hits the break of the car because
academy is here
your dad on the one hand is saying that
hey i’ll pick you up from the academy
back
after two hours and at the same time
says don’t take this as
a full time even if you are good in that
focus more on studies
i am all about pro studies i love
studies
but in the meantime this students move a
little bit ahead in the life
he moves into the journey of seventh
grade or eighth grade which is a very
crucial age
in this age this students get a hobby
a hobby of playing guitar and this
guitar is so much
interesting that he moves his journey
from becoming a cricketer
to becoming a musician and being an
ambitious
student open-minded who wants to become
anything
in this world he says to his parents
that i want to become a musician and
that’s when you get a
big lecture from your parents that hey
there is no money in the music industry
and it’s not a great industry
you should rather focus on your studies
now if we are talking all about money
that how much money can you
make actually it wonders me that
how much a policeman actually makes
after studying
so much after giving so many of the
amazing exams and the physical work and
the training that they go through
how much is actually their salary
and if all that you want from your kid
is to make money here’s an interesting
choice of career option
why don’t you inspire your kid to become
politician
because i yet have to meet a politician
who is dirt
poor just like an ordinary person and
there is minimum liability if you fail
to do your work
also if a politician is
not filthy rich just when he gets a seat
he becomes somehow miraculously
amazingly rich if he’s not getting rich
somehow magically his relatives or his
son
or his wife gets insanely rich
here’s a food for your thought how about
teaching your kid hey
become a politician coming back on to
the journey of this
student this student realizing what
should i become what should i not become
he somehow manages to go into the 10th
standard
and 10 standard is a really crucial
class
everybody says that i also got the same
thing from my parents
and everybody around me now not every
student is
able to perform highly in the 10th
standard this
student got just 45
marks in the 10th standard he is
promoted to the next class
although he is super happy that i’m
being promoted to the next class
but none of the society parents and
teacher
is happy with him i really don’t
understand
why are you not happy with the student
who is scoring 45 percent
this is a big question we need to put
a big why that why are you not happy
with 45
is it low percent then how is it the
fault of a student that it is a low
percentage
your passing standard is 33 percent
and he has a scored way above your
minimum threshold criteria
so it’s you whose fault it is
the entire society should raise the
standard that below 70 percent nobody’s
gonna get pass
so if the entirety or majority of the
class is gonna stay in the same standard
because you don’t like people with the
45 percent
entire class should fail the whole idea
of promoting somebody into the next
class or next level or next phase
is that he is ready for that and if you
think that the person with 45
person marks is not ready why to promote
him
so next time when an interview asks that
why you have scored
less marks in the 10th just openly say
that
i haven’t scored less i have scored way
above the threshold
it’s the standard which is really low
the criteria here
is faulty but definitely i’m not taking
the side of students who are not giving
their 100 person
but definitely we are also equally
liable and we are equally responsible
to change this criteria when the same
student reaches in the 11th standard
you say to him that now you can elect
your subject you can opt your subject
absolutely wrong
no student in india is allowed to select
the stream of the subject of their
choice
in 11th standard because if somebody
who has scored low and wants to choose
physics and maths
with that 45 percent he has gonna go
through the hell
of all the links and all the favors that
he can call through to
get admission with the maths and science
team despite he is so good in that
if somebody who is scoring 95 of
marks and is interested all about arts
and history
he’s gonna have a long lecture with the
dad with neighbors with principles that
why
are you even opting for arts you
are a science student so can you tell me
how this is a selection of a subject
when students
are not allowed to select the subject
from now onwards i’m gonna call this as
forceful
allotment of subject in 11th standard
and if you happen to be the brilliant
mind
which is judged by the percentage only
you’re supposed to get into iits as well
now the next goal from your parents is
to select the iit
which one should you go for not based on
where are the best teachers available or
where are the best projects available
but based
on which college got the highest package
in the newspaper
which student was able to bag the one
crore package
and a shift to usa
and on this exact moment you realize
that i have learned in the early school
moral science book that brain drain is a
problem of the country
so should i take this big amount money
package and just leave the country
and then exact moment you realize
that when our talent from our country
goes into another country and does
extremely well there then only we start
to appreciate that
see my point with this entire narration
of journey is to
point out some of the ambiguities in our
parenting in our society
in our criteria i’m not saying that
everything is absolutely wrong but there
are certainly a lot of points which are
totally wrong
and they are just not wrong in the
criteria there are a lot of
wrong things in the parenting as well we
are living in a society where even to
sell educational products
companies need to hire entertainment
celebrities and not
educational celebrities because we don’t
have any
society is us and we are society
it’s all just a place from where you are
looking
there’s a lot of improvement needed and
this improvement is not going to come
on the very first day but right now is
the time that we need to start at least
to work in the direction of that
improvement the step one to solve any
problem is to recognize
that there is one kids are highly
impressionable they are naive they are
at such a young age that they can get
impressed by
anybody when they see these vlogs where
these
vloggers are living these lavish life
and without showing them what’s
happening behind the scene
they just see this is the best life that
one can have
it is very important for these kids to
meet real life heroes as well
to policemens to army generals and
majors
and also to all these amazing
entrepreneurs behind the amazing
companies that they have established in
india to learn more about the giants
and the monstrous industries that these
entrepreneurs have established in india
we have people like tata adani ambani
i know some of you might not agree about
what they do or not
but one thing is sure they have
established great empires in india
so why don’t you teach to inspire them a
little bit more about
their stories too they are watching a
lot of youtube
it’s your parenting job to tell them
more about these inspirational figures
of india
parenting means it should be free from
money parenting means
it should be high in moral values and
then only
there will be good politicians coming
out from our society
the politician who you blame for
everything
saying that they are all corrupt and all
just bad
they are coming between us they are the
part of our society
and it’s now our time to improve this
society
and just like always i would like to end
this talk
with one of my own coat you were born
alone
and you’re gonna die alone impact is the
only thing
that you’re allowed to take with you
rest all
will be taken by others stay safe
signing out hitesh