Tuesday, August 25, 2020

National Education Policy 2020

If I actually write about it I will eventually sound political. Now, due to its ambiguity, my current rating on this framework: i.e. a framework which is meant to better equip the upcoming generations and revolutionize India, is only something like 1/5. And this is how I have come to interpret it. People can always have different scores or ratings depending on their outlook.

All that aside, what is an education framework that I would rate 5/5? What is a framework that you would rate 5/5? This is something all Indians especially teachers must have some say about...

I am no teacher. But I implore you to watch Carl Sagan's famous documentary series titled "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage"

And this is the internet. I don't have to write anything about Carl Sagan that wikipedia doesn't already know...

The Great Library of Alexandria 

This is something Carl Sagan talks about in one of the episodes. Many historians believe that this was one of the greatest libraries in the world. It is said that if those libraries were not destroyed by the Roman empire, then we probably would have made key discoveries a lot earlier.

Imagine what effect would the Laws of Planetary motion, or, the law of gravitation, have on our human civilization if the ideas behind those laws were discovered earlier. (It may not have been Kepler or Newton who discovers it. It could be other people). 

And if that was the trajectory human civilization took, I believe I would be writing this blog aboard a Star Trek enterprise space ship... 😁

Perhaps the Star Trek enterprise is an exaggeration. But the loss of human ingenuity that prevailed at the time, cannot be measured. All of it; the whole place was burned to the ground... 😔

So what's this got to do with NEP 2020?

Absolutely nothing.

Star Trek will still be a tv entertainment programme for the next 3 generations...ðŸĪŠ

Good Day

Ps: I apologize if the title was misleading...