A recently held knowledge conclave in a posh up class resort in southern Bangalore answered a lot of questions as to why our nation, India suffers a whopping 34.62 percent illiteracy and inconceivable fluency in the English language. The speakers — reputed educationists, entrepreneurs and vice chancellors of the nex- gen Universities could neither speak a grammatically accurate sentence in English, nor could “in brief” answer the specific questions that were thrown at them.
Teachers teach students to be 'to-the-point' and answer the given question in the shortest possible way. Well, these speakers neither followed the former lesson nor the latter. Now for a few example. The answer to a simple question, “Do you think the colleges in India are doing enough to suit industry employment?” was met with an answer as complicated as, “Thank you you ask the question. I think the question that has been raised here is very relevant, a good question. Before I go to answer that (go where?), let me take the opportunity to thank all of you to come here and spend three days at the conclave. Our company, XXX, which has been working for XX years has contributed a lot to the country.....” thus starts an advertisement speech, with a mother tongue influence and grammar so bad that it makes me wonder how such companies are multinationals. Asked the 'lady in yellow', a law school teacher from the north of the country, “ICT becoming important, technology introducing, what role of teachers any more?” It took everyone a while to comprehend the English
With such people leading the education sector and putting their best foot forward to bring revolution in the hitherto glum education sector of India, I wonder how any educated youth can be employable in any company — even a call center. No wonder pseudo spoken English classes have seen a boom in the last few years, training mother-tongue instructed college pass-outs how to sell credit cards to people in the West for the US and the UK — in a language that was banned for them in primary education, a time when they could have picked it up easily.
Teachers teach students to be 'to-the-point' and answer the given question in the shortest possible way. Well, these speakers neither followed the former lesson nor the latter. Now for a few example. The answer to a simple question, “Do you think the colleges in India are doing enough to suit industry employment?” was met with an answer as complicated as, “Thank you you ask the question. I think the question that has been raised here is very relevant, a good question. Before I go to answer that (go where?), let me take the opportunity to thank all of you to come here and spend three days at the conclave. Our company, XXX, which has been working for XX years has contributed a lot to the country.....” thus starts an advertisement speech, with a mother tongue influence and grammar so bad that it makes me wonder how such companies are multinationals. Asked the 'lady in yellow', a law school teacher from the north of the country, “ICT becoming important, technology introducing, what role of teachers any more?” It took everyone a while to comprehend the English
With such people leading the education sector and putting their best foot forward to bring revolution in the hitherto glum education sector of India, I wonder how any educated youth can be employable in any company — even a call center. No wonder pseudo spoken English classes have seen a boom in the last few years, training mother-tongue instructed college pass-outs how to sell credit cards to people in the West for the US and the UK — in a language that was banned for them in primary education, a time when they could have picked it up easily.
4 comments:
Hey Debolina
You gave a Good point to think on...Liked your post.
Regards,
Dhawal
thanks...
Hey Deb,
Very well said. It is because of this situation that India's education sector has not improved yet. The scholars are hard to see in the right places and the quota system is worsening the situation. I believe if people are judged according to merit there is no need for reservation nor will there be such leaders who can't practice what they preach.
Keep writing. Regards.
It's true that what is preached is in actual not practiced.Keep up the good work of pointing out such points.
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