THE INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM
THE STORY part-1
The story of Indian education system started way back in 19th century when INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION was on full swing in Britain and we were ruled by them.
So queen Elizabeth decided to give us Indians a formal structure of education apart from our traditional one.and the Queen and the parliament decided to send a guy to India basically for surveying the country and decide what kind of education system will be suitable for us(the actually purpose).
And the guy they send was THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY who was a historian and "really angry old man.By the way he used to hate India and Indians and our norm and our culture well actually everything about India .
And what he did for next 4 years was ,well let's not discus .Apparently because industrial revolution was at peak at that time he wanted Indian to work in factories or wanted us to be their clerk.
so,he gave the idea of STEM syste.
S=SCIENCE
T=TECHNOLOGY
E=ENGINEERING
M=MATHEMATICS
And this was the system he pitched for us and ingored everything else.
As he said and i quote
"IT IS,BELIEVE,NO EXAGGERATION TO SAY THAT ALL THE HISTORICAL INFORMATION WHICH HAS BEEN COLLECTED FROM ALL THE BOOKS WRITTEN IN SANSKRIT LANGUAGE IS LESS VALUABLE THAN WHAT MAY BE FOUND IN THE MOST PALTRY ABRIDGMENT USED AT PREPARATORY SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND."
The story of Indian education system started way back in 19th century when INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION was on full swing in Britain and we were ruled by them.
So queen Elizabeth decided to give us Indians a formal structure of education apart from our traditional one.and the Queen and the parliament decided to send a guy to India basically for surveying the country and decide what kind of education system will be suitable for us(the actually purpose).
And the guy they send was THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY who was a historian and "really angry old man.By the way he used to hate India and Indians and our norm and our culture well actually everything about India .
And what he did for next 4 years was ,well let's not discus .Apparently because industrial revolution was at peak at that time he wanted Indian to work in factories or wanted us to be their clerk.
so,he gave the idea of STEM syste.
S=SCIENCE
T=TECHNOLOGY
E=ENGINEERING
M=MATHEMATICS
And this was the system he pitched for us and ingored everything else.
As he said and i quote
"IT IS,BELIEVE,NO EXAGGERATION TO SAY THAT ALL THE HISTORICAL INFORMATION WHICH HAS BEEN COLLECTED FROM ALL THE BOOKS WRITTEN IN SANSKRIT LANGUAGE IS LESS VALUABLE THAN WHAT MAY BE FOUND IN THE MOST PALTRY ABRIDGMENT USED AT PREPARATORY SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND."
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