Muses of Murari

America is nervous about its future generation. It thinks its future generation is not equipped enough like that of India’s and China’s in the area of education to face new dynamics of 21st century. This is some kind of irony. Here, in India, there is huge hue and cry about poor educational system and the enormous public awareness of improving it slowly sprouting in, among citizens and government alike. In other hand, America is fearing our educational system!

Certainly, America worried about numbers. Think this way, the number of bright students passing out every year in India in good colleges/universities is huge. There is good possibility that this figure exceeds the entire US student population passing out in a year. Same is the case with China. With this information, no wonder, people in US, started to re-think their old beliefs that is US education system is best in the world. That’s what happening now.

Generally in India, if a school kid does not do well academically, parents get worried. They do all in the world to make their kids to study and get good grades. Even if the child has interests in sports or in arts, parents tend to discourage them. Because, here in India, we are like genetically coded to give top priority to education. If not genetics, at least economics pushes the education to the No.1 item in child’s growth. For many of the middle classes & lower classes, good education is the ticket to success. In US, it looks like, parents give more importance to sports, arts than to studies!

The thought of students losing their competitiveness to Asians, is slowly sinking in US public knowledge. Already, we heard news stories from US corporates like Microsoft fighting with US government to issue more H1B visas to foreign nationals for the lack of enough highly-skilled people in US. Now, this study might be putting US into introspective mode.

US worrying about losing its future generations’ competitive edge. In India, many educationists & thinkers worrying about quality of education! Each one has their own share of story to tell.

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