Harita Vidyalayalm - Educational Reality Show for Schools

2 days back , I happened to watch the "Harita Vidyalayam" reality show in "Doordarshan Malayalam" channel. The time for this reality show is 8.10 PM .

Details here : http://www.c2clive.com/latestnewsdetail.php?id=3837


The channel shows the

• videos of the school infrastructure ,
• panel of judges ask questions to the teachers and the students who represent the school
• and a rating is given based on their assessment.
  
  That day , 2 schools particiapted . one L.P School and one high school.
  
  The cute little girl from the L.P.School was listening very carefully to the tough questions of the judges and she answered most of the questions correctly.
  
  I do not know whether such a reality show is needed in the educational field as well. My opinion would be "no". But I realised that we could do a lot more to improve the infrastructure in the schools , the methods of education and all the more , I am of the opinion that learning has to be through fun. An area where in we could do a lot more in moulding our next generation ..
  
  Yesterday , I was sitting through a boring training session in my office. I was thinking that if we as adults cant enjoy a very serious session , how do we expect our little ones to sit through the boring sessions in the school ?
  
  I am not sure whether the TTC or B.Ed courses teach any innovative techniques as to how to make the sessions interesting ? Some teachers do have an inborn talent where as majority dont have. But definitely, we can build such competence by putting the teachers through appropriate training .
  
  While the Posh English Medium Schools do put their teachers through such training , I feel that a lot more improvement is needed. We should not limit the children to the boundaries of the school text books which happens most of the times , partly to blame our curriculam and assessment systems. Every child is inquisitive. In fact , 2 way learning happens when we teach children. ( My personal experience).

I was overwhelmed when I read the news that Azim Premji has a transferred Rs. 8846 crores to a trust that would utilize these funds for rural education ! This amounts to 28.34 per cent of what the Indian government has allocated in the 2010-11 Budget for education (`31,036 crores, or $6.72 billion). Mr Premji has transferred Wipro shares worth `8,830 crores at the current market price (amounting to 10.9 per cent of his own shareholding) to the Premji Foundation — whose objective is to promote education in rural India.

I also read recently that Tata has donated Rs. 220 crores to Harvard Business School ,the largest gift the school has received from an international donor in its 102-year history. This was a bit of disappointment. Why to donate to Harvard when he could have made this donation to improve his own country's education sector ?

I sincerely wish if I also could do my bit ! Or is it just another wish among the other wishes ? I dont know. How ever , since dreams don't have limits , I dream of a day when our country has the best education system in the world.