In the austere land which pioneered the system of Gurukul Vidya—where children would enroll at the onset of their teenage and make residence with their Guru, keeping away from their families and all other material conceptions of who they were outside their Gurukul- it is an object of bewilderment as we see presently students acquiring knowledge and performing their school activities within the comfortable confines of their homes. How efficiently has the ‘Vishwa Guru’ –Bharat conducted this method of education is a subject of massive debate and discussion. In my opinion, though the Indian diaspora has seen no paucity of effort to redeem the education system that had taken a fall in the infamous Corona period, the online education system has been utterly disappointing up until now—not just in India, globally. Zoom calls, Google meets etc. seem to act as an obliteration to the study process that was supposed to mould youngsters into pallbearers of the future of this country. Under issues of network problems, irregular schedules, the harrowing fear for health generally and moreover general loss of interest on side of the students—all led to an amalgamation that has severely inflicted harm on our online education paradigm. Even with the personal interactions, live classes and assessments—the issues of rote learning and defective curriculum had always taken the blame for the disturbing study which said that 78% of Indian graduates are deemed unemployable by any company of good credentials and 88% showed a lack of even the most basic skills pertaining to their subjects of graduation.
Under such circumstances how can we ever advocate the benefits of online learning over physical classes! Even physical education subjects are being taught over online platforms which is completely a sham---how can you understand the intricacies of how to tackle a spinner ball in cricket over video calls? How can you understand how to defend your ball against an onslaught of opponents in basketball? Under the pandemic situations—this method of study was the only option available to us. To prolong this practice over the traditional and effective method of study would be a crime against the country’s learning procedure.
Another major issue to ponder over is the utterly despicable state of evaluation procedures in online learning. Students employ all sorts of tricks, searching answers over the internet during their assessments without knowing even the most rudimentary lessons of their syllabus and the most pitiful fact about this method of examination is that—such students end up scoring high marks and are accordingly assessed and promoted—instilling in them a dangerous sense of confidence which can prove extremely harmful to the student’s growth on an overall basis. A few students who are actually obedient, willing to learn and want to honestly follow the examination procedures even at a point where they have the option of neglecting these rules completely and getting away with it—they score less than the students who gain high marks through their dishonesty. This predicament is an utter injustice to the efforts of the sincere students. Even this single fact should be enough by itself to portray the fallibility of this detrimental online education system.
At a time of extreme significance in the Indian educational diaspora where the government is on the threshold of incurring a revolutionary set of changes to be brought under the shift of NEW EDUCATION POLICY-2020, senselessly dragging the online system would be our own downfall. No amount of in intricate technological innovations could ever hope to replace the personal touch of understanding and curiosity that a teacher could instill in a student. Algorithm-driven machines could conduct recorded lectures and store terrabytes of information from the syllabus—it would never hold a candle to the compassionate and supportive care that a teacher could provide. The online learning method was an instrument for periods of emergency, instilling it as permanent would simply be disastrous. We must inculcate technology for our convenience in the educational paradigm but still retain our roots of the great teaching system
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