Don’t teach me….Allow me to learn….
“I am not from your field” -an interesting statement by my friend wedged my mind this week. It was simple and unconscious attempt to say that our academic disciplines are different. This statement suddenly made me realized something about our education system. A system which plays great role in producing good citizens or civilized human being who has specialized skills to contribute in development of mankind. India spends huge chunk of its social sector budget on education but no Indian university is listed in top 200 hundred universities of world. This seems a shocking situation to me, it raises question, what is going wrong with our education system. When I thought and shared my concerns with people from other countries, I realized that education systems of every country is undergoing under transition. The only difference is that some countries are managing this transition well while some are not (like India). The most shocking observation is that it’s not higher educ