EDUCATION: NEW CENTURY’S VISION

Political crassness and lack of education and  ignorance have become unfortunately impediments in the                                                                                                                                         path of progress of the have-nots.

But generally, religion is tolerant in other concept and point of view ; it is only when conservative religionists , be they of Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism or what-ever, take a rigid, fundamentalist and legalistic stance, that intolerance and even violence can erupt, to bring about such evils as “ethnic cleansing” and other form of genocide.

Education For All:-                                                                                             

The people of India are in the midst of gigantic process of democratic, secular , federal  nation-building  in their  continental polity. It is, in essence, the initiation of the construction of a new civilization around a liberal people. Our diverse people, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-regional, have been struggling to emancipate themselves from feudal exploitation, religious obscurantism and inequalities of social and economic existence.

All major religious communities of the world have a place in the sun in this benevolent motherland. INDIA is not only multi-religious but also a polyglot society. Eighteen languages are recognized as a major language of INDIA. Besides, there are about 1800 language are thousands of dialect.

Future of Education:-

Literacy for is the Indian vision and the government has initiated various plans of action for implementing the literacy mission. Literacy does not mean only education but also transfer of knowledge to improve communication skill and capability to improve the environment and utilize scare resource for the development of the nation. The quality of life has to be improved and social values are to be retained.

"Anytime,Anywhere":-

The technology is a savior to meet the demand for learning the creating new possibilities of provision of “education for all, any- time ,any-where” which is an appropriate vision for every country which recognize learning or knowledge as a social and economic activities. India is not an exception .  The old system “gurukulam” which had been followed in ancient India signifies for the learner that the acquisition of knowledge was a life-long activity. Every country has got social and cultural value system, which has to be preserved; though it is also  possible to use modern technology advance towards meeting this goal. Preservation of value assumes greater significance for a developing nation’s  

education reform launched by various countries, including India and universalisation of education. The four pillars, which, constitute the frame work of education, are “learning to know” ,“learning to do”, “learning to live together”.

Education is not simply enlargement of gross nation product but also to provide greater peace and compassion. The nation and the individuals use technology to remove the disparity between the rich and poor, developed and less developed. Increase in use of education and technology is to be catalytic rather than missionary.This is to be ensured. the supporting technologies for making this vision a reality are the hardware, software, visual communication, network communication, storage, information management technologies and multi and national language support interface technologies.

                                                                                                                                -Mirza Sagar Beg.

2