Written-off in the hinterland: 

Written-off in the hinterland: 

Context:

• The educational system in rural India is not able to create favorable conditions to be at par with the urban system.

A comparison:

• Retrospectively, educational institutes represented the dream of a philanthropist to export the best human talent of his region to the global market.
• But the fact that education can serve a village in ways that allow it to retain its best boys and girls had been discarded long ago.
• The rural institutions gave its metropolitan counterparts stiff competition on global playgrounds.
• They invested in technological aids to give the rural youth an opportunity to aspire for legitimate heights.
• For those financially backward, school is meant to be a potential break from the likelihood of a life dependent on shrinking income from agriculture and labor.

Introduction to Rural development:

• The term rural development represents an essentially colonial view of the village.
• Also, rural development represents an essentially colonial view of the village; modernity for the village can only mean its merger in the urban landscape.
• Moreover, migration from rural areas has a positive side to it because the state’s services are more accessible in cities.

Education in the rural context:

• Schools in rural areas remained neglected and attempts to improve them never gained momentum.
• The larger unit of rural children suffered the consequences of low budgeting and poor staffing.
• Education of the rural child has failed to depart from the stereotype which associates modernity with city life.
• Education has worsened the rural-urban asymmetry, deepening the alienation of the rural citizen.
• The idea that education can serve a village in ways that allow it to retain its best boys and girls had been discarded long ago.
• It’s often seen that villages became the supplier of talent to the city and so thus the concept coaching takes its roots.
• Lakhs of students from rural and semi-urban areas spend their youth getting coached indiscriminately for competitive entry into an ever-shrinking opportunity market.
• Moreover, with the scarcity of employment, there’s the struggle to sustain one’s aspiration and the other part is living with frustration.

Conclusion

• To sum up, the education system in India as a whole is rote memorization, leading to behavior which encourages cramming and forgetting rather than lifelong learning.