When I started on the school
project, my number one concern was that which methadology I should adopt in my
school. I learned about different ideologies. I found that there are two main
classes of school systems. 1. Our Govt schools and private schools in poor areas
are following traditional way of teaching. 2. Privates school for well-to-do
people are mostly English medium. Schools of elite class proudly announce that
they follow American school systems or British Schooling system.
Do we know what is the ranking of American and British School systems in the
world?
No doubt, American and British universities are number one in higher education.
There universities are excellent and providing top class education. But does
that guarantee that there child development programs will also be the same
class? Definitely not. Early and Primary education in America and British do not
even rank in top 10 counties in PISA tests.
Most of our schools are just following the norm and using the USA or British
name and superiority in economics and scientific fields to follow their
schooling standards. On the other hand, educationist in USA and British are
concern and worried about their fall in their basic education system. They are
learning from other countries who are performing well in PISA tests and showing
excellent results. The countries whom students performed well in language,
science and math and proved their systems real success are Finland, Japan, China
and many others. These countries are using their own education system according
to their own ground realities.
If we want to bring sustainable change then we should revisit our Basic
education system.