What changes needed in our education system to create future leaders?

The current education had put students under stress.So many results like immature departure, suicides,mental problems etc are reported.So even CBSE also had decided to give grades in exams.Actually it is the success of SSA.They says that it is for reducing the stress and strain of students.

Ofcourse they have to be reduced.But at the same time in order to assess the level of achievement some new methods to be adopted.We can test the student at different classes in different abilities based on his mental age.During higher secondary level he might be entering to the age of voting.So his leadership qualities can be tested.It should not be a single test.Continuous evolution and assessment required so that on completion of the course he will emerge as a good leader.

The exam based education system will be a burden for students. Not saying that exams are not needed. Till new system of measuring student's knowledge is implemented, we need exams. But assessment of a student should not stop within an exam.

We can't say that a student who was not able to perform good in exams due to some health problems is a poor system.So, assessment should be a continous one rather than exam centred.

The success of SSA lies here that, it makes a continous assessment of student's performance.

Coming to our topic, this should be made more efficient in our education system. We can reduce the importance of terminal assessment and give more importance to a continous assessment of student.Through this we can correctly measure the potential of a student and there by we can develop his abilities and skills.

This will help to frame good leaders to our country from our students for our future...!!

I don't remember who said this, I heard it from my physical education lecturer.
"To know the qualities of a student , make him to play freely in a ground with his peer groups.Definitely all qualities in him will be thrown out within a thirty minuts play"

So assessment in right way is the method to identify the qualities and surely the leadership quality also can be assessed by this way.

All you right as per your view . I want to summarize that what are qualities of good leader

he or she should be trustworthy so that people can follow him.
He or She is always enthusiastic about the cause of the people.
He or She has excellent logical and analytical skills.
He or She should always focus towards his goals, what he/she has envisioned for and promised to his people.
He or She is proactive and committed to excellence.
He or She inspires his team to achieve target and lead them to success
He or She always keeps a cool head in times of crises and finds solutions to get everybody out of any difficult situation

and also
He or She should try to be less corrupt and always place the nation and its people first rather than on concentrating on ways of how to win the next elections

hi everyone
I like to give one new suggestion.

In our educational system,ELECTIONS must be conducted to select students for any post in the school.From school leaders to class leaders, there must be a voting system to select the students.The system must be designed in such a way that the election procedure are similar to the real elections in the country.This will help to create awareness in students about our real democratic setup and elections conducted in India.Also the system must have nothing to do with political parties.Its 100% by the students and for the students.

Today we know, in most schools, leaders are selected by teachers.The more studious and hard working student is selected for both school leader and class leader post(most of the case).In our GD itself many of us have already supported the view that a person who is good at studies may not be a good leader.A good leader is the one who can manage well, who is loved by other students and who has the quality to lead(if possible, all the qualities Santosh listed).Such a student can become a leader only if students choose them by voting.

In my opinion this is 100% practical.A brief idea in school leader selection is like this-Any student who like to be a leader can submit nomination letter to principal.Once approved he/she is the candidate and they can campaign in school under their own name(no politics).At the day of election, in the morning assembly they have to give a speech on their future plans,once they are elected as a leader.After that, ballot paper with the school seal can be distributed in the each class and student can write the candidate name on it.Thus a true leader is selected.Here the role of teachers is only in counting!.

So by this method, a true leader or a mass leader come to limelight.Such students who have the real quality of becoming a leader are exposed and that will really motivate and improve the person.And maybe they even think of making their ambition, to become a real political leader of the country.

Abid,
Proper assessment of qualities of students helps the teachers and parents to show them a suitable path for them. Today's exam based educational system makes students to think that career means..

Only Engineer.. Or Doctor...

Fact is that 6.5 lakhs engineers are coming out from our colleges every year of which 70% are not getting a job as an engineer.

So, in our educational system, the student should be exposed to different streams of career so that he can choose one which is right for his taste and talent.. Their should be more career guidance programs from 10th level so that students will get enough time to analyse different careers...

Santosh,

A small correction..
He or she should be a model so that people can follow him..
He or she should be trustworthy so that people won't think twice to approach him...

Michael,
Leaders are rather concentrated on making their bank balance huge and confirming their win in next election. Only few leaders are not affected by the dirt of corruption.. Our education should make students to realise the value of being truthful...

MC,
In some schools leaders are selected through election process and in some colleges we have college senate, mock parliament etc. It should be made compulsory in schools and colleges so we can improve leadership qualities of the future of India...!!

MC,
In most colleges in my state the practice of election is similar to our general election.All the procedures like nomination submission,scrutinisation,campaigning,appointment of polling officers,election agents etc etc are going on.Last year in my college election even the ballot box was the original one that we use in general election!!So students get a real kick of election.

But I think there is a draw back in selecting a leader like this you told.The rival also may have good leadership qualities.So on defeating his qualities will get suppressed for the whole year.Am I right?

The practice followed in my daughter's school is that a boy leader and a girl leader will be there, appointed by class teacher.Their term is one month.Then another pair is tested.All the pairs selected will have some abilities and their performance after appointment also is assessed to select the best leader.I think it is a very good practice to find out the leadership qualities in all.

Abid,
My entire focus is on schools or basic education.Yes, in colleges there is union elections and other elections, but that is usually mixed with political parties.In schools, most of the time, teachers select leaders according to their marks and thats what to be changed.

About the mentality of a student who get defeated, you are absolutely correct.I didn't think of that..But one thing is there.There can be more than one post.Like assistant school leader,Fine Arts secretary etc..So the disappointment will be less.Also, students must learn to accept the defeat, because its a very essential quality a leader in politics should have.Only such students who can accept the defeat, and who knows his qualities must come forward or will come forward.

About the class leader selection, thats a very good practice.But all i am against is the selection of students based on their marks.Most of teachers select students like that.But if it is one month rotation, its fine.Most of deserving one will get a chance.i too agree.And their leadership quality qualities can be assessed and improved.right..nice.
So it seems, the election is best in school level and not in class level.In fact, we know there is not much role for a class leader, but a school leader is much bigger.They must have the true quality and they must know the real election.Hope this system is made compulsory and next time no teacher's pet become a school leader!

Abid,
Its a nice practise of selecting one leader for a month in a school. This will give chance for everybody to show and improve their leadership qualities. But the only problem is that the one who has a real leadership qualities will find 1 month as a very less time. But its not a very big problem, when everybody gets the same time.It will come to a competitive spirit and everybody will try to do the best with the responsibility given to him. This will surely help to develop his qualities.

MC,
Now i think it has been changed, in most of schools, leaders are selected on the basis of election by students itself.
And do you know what's happening in our college.. There will be a boy and a girl rep(like leader) for every class.If one should like to stand in election,one of his supporter should nominate his name and another one should support him.Thus his nomination is accepted. After all nomination are accepted, election is done.
If a boy is selected through election, then the girl rep will be the one who got the highest mark among girls and viceversa if girl is selected through election. I don't think that its a bad practise. And about college senate, everything is done as per election structure..

Selection should be always through Election... !!

"Leaders are not born, they are created".That is the actual thing.But today the "not" is displaced and it is changed as " Leaders are born , not created".

This situation came due to the quality of our education !Our education may be good in one sense for increasing the knowledge.But it lacks some other qualities.One of them is the development of leadership qualities.Hence we have to conduct leadership training programs at different levels frequently.This is not at all a good practice.

So in my opinion a student should be given exposure to various situations during his study period. His responses at these situations is to be assessed very carefully and guided accordingly.

Abid

There may be lot of factor as told by you to make good leader but one thing i want to say that everyone can not be like Jakir Hussain as Tablist so every person can not become good leader even he got all area of education.

God gift is very big power we can not avoid it.

Abid,
Its a correct thing that education is more concentrating on knowledge.. But I will say that education is more concentrated on marks.. Students are prepared to score good marks in exams rather than gaining knowledge or developing other qualities in him..This should be changed.

Our topic asks what all changes we need in our educational system.In my opinion,marks are important but we should give importance to other things too. Extra curricular activities, career guidance, personality development, leadership camps etc. should be made atleast once a year and it should be made compulsory...

Santosh,
Its true that everyone has their own abilities. But the educational system should be capable to find the hidden abilities of students.

Don't make them go with the flow....!!

Help him to find his own way. Educational system should be powerful for this...

hi everyone,
Do you think it will be good if NCC or Scouts and Guides are made compulsory for every student?.I believe it will do great in finding good leaders.They have some good activities and workshops that help in the overall development of a student.They really help to find good leaders as they give lots of opportunities to lead.It would also fulfill the need of personality development classes and leadership camps as Jobin said.A physically and mentality fit society can be made, out of which, will emerge the great leaders of future India!.

The famous philosopher John Dewey defined education as the continued process of experiencing and revising or reorganising experiences.Education is the development of all those capacities in the individual which will enable him to control his environment and fulfil his possibilities.

From the second part of this definition it is clear that by education all the capacities including leadership must be developed.Also there are three types of leaderships -
1) autocratic leaders who are rigorous disciplinarians
2) Laissez-faire leaders who leave their followers to themselves and
3) Democratic leaders who share thoughts with followers and makes decission.

By education the third type of leadership quality is to be acheived.Then only people will work whole heartly and will come forward to assume responsibilities.Fortunately present SSA is in this direction and hope within years we can see the good results.

MC,
I agree that NCC helps the formation of a good person. It will help in personality development, growing leadership qualities and many other good qualities..

But I don't think that its good to make it compulsory.. It should be taken only if the students like. Because its a matter of responsibility. making students to join it compulsorily will decrease the quality.

Rather we can encourage students to join NCC by conducting awareness camps etc.. Thus we can attract students and i'm sure that NCC will help in moulding good leaders for the future..!!

One thing can be made compulsory that every school should have a NCC unit or like that which makes the door always open for the students...!!


Abid,

Yes education should be capable of developing all those capacities which will enable him to control his environment and fulfil his possibilities. Leadership is a responsibility. Our education should be in such a way that it makes the students to feel their responsibility..

If this good environment can be created by the education, then I'm sure that we can make good persons and good leaders from our student community...

" Burn the books...
Demolish the walls...
Throw the child to nature..."

The above was the words of famous philosopher Roussoe to develop the qualities in a child by natural way.

(I conclude my discussion with this being leaving net for two days)

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So, the topic is going to come to an end I'm giving my conclusion...

* Education should be made powerful so that it helps in developing all the qualities in the students like personality development, leadership training etc.

* Students should be given chance to take part in co-curricular activities like camps etc.

* Schools should have NCC units, sports training etc which will make students come forward to join in it which inturn help students.

* Education should not be made focussing on marks, rather it should focus on knowledge.

* students should be given chance to know about various career paths on reaching 10th standard itself so that they get enough time to choose their path.

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Jobin,
I stick to my point that NCC or Scouts and Guides should be made compulsory. In fact, it was compulsory in India in the years after China war.So its not at all impracticable.You see, even our former President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam suggested that 2 year NCC training must be made compulsory in schools.There is no need that every student has to complete the full program, but a basic training in discipline and other activities must be there.

I was in Scouts and i know how much influence it make in molding one's personality.i joined because of my parents.I was not aware what it was, at that time.But later i realized that it was one best thing that happened in my life.I learned to be a leader in my life from the activities of Scouts.It helped me to find out the leadership quality in me and that changed me as a person.In every walks of life i got its benefits.So my point is that, if students are compelled to join in NCC or Scouts and Guides, later they will realize its benefits and by the time their qualities, including leadership quality will improve.By simple awareness a very few are going to join.Thats a time tested fact.

Abid,
The words of those philosopher's are great.But to make it practical, we must have people with vision.As i have said earlier, there should be government policy and committee consisting of visionaries like A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.I believe current SSA system is having some of this quality.But lots more are to be done.