I am feeling sorry for the students of India burdened with intellectual workload

There has been discussions on reducing the learning burden of school kids; but the learning burden is just increasing. This is because the educational administrators, the teachers, the parents, and the public are aimless on the goals of the education system.

The school curriculum is framed by educationalists who are 'arm chair intellectuals'. They are not economists, psychologists, sociologists or planners. They are just teachers who have been teaching all the time and know nothing else other than teaching. So they follow what has been followed traditionally. They do not have the capacity to think what the society needs.

Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011

Teacher Education Career is Road to Doom!!

Never think of becoming a teacher educator if you are not rich enough to pay donation at a private aided college for getting a lecturer post. Out of some 230 B.Ed colleges in the Kerala State 17 are aided colleges 4 are government colleges and the rest 90% are in private/self financing sector, meaning teaching shops.

Chances of getting job in government college is less; only state government school teachers who have qualifications manage to get it; they are given priority in appointment.

In the aided colleges that are run by religious institutions mostly they look at your caste and religion besides the amount of money you would give as 'donation', which should be several lakhs; means these posts are reserved for the rich and powerful.

Most likely one is likely to get employed in a private or self financing institution with monthly pay not more that what a mason or carpenter gets. And you could loose your job even if you go for maternity leave. You are not a teacher or a human; you are a product, a commodity -a factor that decides whether the institution will be profitable or not.

Never pursue M.Ed or PhD in Education; Look before you Leap. You career could be doomed and you will find yourself crying the whole life if you think that teacher education as a noble career and decide to pursue it. Study what happens to the teacher educators before you choose the career

Kerala State Syllabus 9th Std. student learning computer..stupid computer education

I had written in this blog before that Information Technology curriculum is created in a most ridiculous manner, with students forced to cram up stuff. 

Instead of taking a person into a pond to teach swimming, what nonsense it would be to ask him to write an essay on how to swim!! 

Computer education make students hate computers.. this should not be the way to administer computer education.

Following are the photos of a 9th Std. student learning computers for half yearly exam:

Who will save our Education System?

Who will save our kids from the BORES who frame the syllabus and execute it blindly and deafly?

Kerala 8th Std. Social Science Question Paper: shameful and pathetic ignorance of question setters

See the poor English used here. Kerala school children are unlucky to have these sub-standard persons as their teachers. There is something wrong with the teacher recruitment and teacher training.

The pathetic English used in Std. 8 State Syllabus half yearly exam question paper...

See instead of 'half yearly exam' it is 'half year exam''; what is this 'cool of time'? Why it is not "Std. VIII" instead of "std VIII"?

please see question 7 (c)

"can a person standing a point B? Why?"

what sort of English is this?

Even the typist who typed this question paper does not know that a sentence should start with capital letter and that a full stop should be adjacent to last letter of a line.
ഇതിനെ 'അബദ്ധപഞ്ചാംഗം' എന്നൊക്കെ വിളിക്കാമോ എന്നറിയില്ല. മൊത്തം തെറ്റുകള്‍. ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വ്യാകരണം, ടൈപ്പിംഗ്‌, എല്ലാം തെറ്റാണ് എന്ന് മാത്രമല്ല  കുട്ടികളുടെ നിലവാരം അനുസരിച്ചല്ല ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍ ഇട്ടിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഒന്നാമത്തെ ചോദ്യം തന്നെ എട്ടാം ക്ലാസ്സിലെ കുട്ടികള്‍ക്ക് ചേര്‍ന്നതല്ല എന്ന അഭിപ്രായം ആണ് എനിക്കുള്ളത്. 

Q.2. The sentence should have started with capital 'W'. It would be better if '..services of a commercial bank' instead of 'services of commercial bank' is used

Mumbai school 'asks' students to buy iPads

Computer Education in schools -making students hate computers

Ever since I bought my PC at home, I had got addicted to computers. Purchasing a laptop later and getting a broadband connection actually made me more and more addicted. I had a hundred things to do with computers.

I have been using MS Office run in MS Windows and have been quite happy with these programs. Lately, I am using cloud software such as Google documents for most of my works. It is so comfortable.
I never used programs like LOGO or Ubundu. Just heard of it. I didn't want to switch over. But when I see my school kids forced to learn these programs though they are not likely to use it ever, I feel sorry for them. Some ideology crazy leftists might have mooted this idea of free software in school education. School kids are learning something to satisfy the ideological perceptions of these so called intellectuals. Why shouldn't we teach students something that the whole world is using? Why do we want to start our experiments and ideological acrobats with poor school kids?

The computer education is designed in most crazy manner. School kids are fond of games and umpteen interesting computer software and the net.  They just need to be given opportunity to use the computer and the broadband and given guidance on how to search the net and find information. Many software are so user friendly that kids will learn not only computer usage but also their curricular subjects also using computes and broadband net. But they are being tortured by designing a computer curriculum that forces them to cram up day to day operations in the computers. It is like teaching them how to swim by making them cram up statements like 'first lift your right hand, force water backwards, hold your breath, beat your legs in the water..." and make them write exams on this; instead of taking them to water and guide them how to swim. The school computer education is rubbish in concept and design.

Private / Self financing teachers must start strike against low pay

Nurses all over India has started strikes against exploitation by hospital managements. It is time that private school teachers and private college teachers and B.Ed college teachers too started fighting against exploitation and low salaries