Drawbacks of Indian Education system

• Rote learning. Emphasis on memorizing the facts rather than thoroughly understanding the concepts.
• Completely relying on text books.
• Giving more importance to text books than the teacher. There is no autonomy to teachers.
• Students have no freedom to think creatively and to question the content in the text books.
• Taking marks as assessment of student’s talent, when marks can be easily obtained by memorizing the pre-written answers from the text books.
• Students are not being taught why they are learning the particular subjects and topic. Text books do not mention how the topics are relevant in the practical life.
• There is no incentive for teachers to encourage critical thinking in children.
• Lack of infrastructure.
• Most of the syllabus is in theoretical form.
• Dearth of capable teachers in government schools.
• Low salaries of teachers.
• Pressurizing students for marks and grades. Student suicides are increasing day by day.
• Students are learning the subjects just to reach to the next level, i.e obtaining admission from the good college.
• Indian govt is spending only 3% of its GDP on education.
• As the Govt unable invest enough in the education sectors, private institutions roped in, and the result is High cost of education.
• No control of govt on fee structure of private educational institutes.
• Ethics aren’t being taught in schools. And the result of this is many educated persons lack ethics.
• Very low teacher to student ratio. As a result, teachers are not able to concentrate on each and every child. According to Right to Education, there should be one teacher for every 30 students.
• High prices of higher education in India. Indian Govt isn’t investing in the higher education aspirants.
• Rise of coaching centers for competitive exams and private tuitions for school children are is resulted by the poor education system, which couldn’t make students job-ready.
• Our text books do not mention the importance of physical activity and the extra curricular activities. Most of the schools in India do not have play grounds.
• Not encouraging research and innovation.
• Not teaching students about how to deal with daily life struggles.
• Incentivising hyper-competitiveness rather than encouraging to co-learn.
• Shortage of text books for govt school students.
• No proper career guidance available for students.
• Most of the govt school students are unable to do basic math. This reveals the negligence of teachers.
• Not everyone has access to school. A lot rural areas still have no schools. And there are many single teacher schools.
• In the top 100 universities list by ‘Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2016’, none of the Indian universities could make into the list.