Rich-Poor gap and Education system

We often hear that our govt. policies are such that the rich is becoming richer and the poor, poorer. To me above seems to be a general concept and very similar to the survival of fittest. Howsoever general above is, but it is not good for human society. And for the very reason we have systems, processes and regulations so that the benefits of resources reach to the unprivileged and the poor.
And in all the systems where the benefits don't reach to the poor, there lies a big ? on the system and it creates many problems. Naxalism, as some people say, is one of them.


If we remember our school days I believe most of us would agree that the students who were good, were given more opportunities to develop their skills. And those who were not good in studies and some other activities, were left.
Whenever teachers were asked to bring some students for inspection and were asked to represent institute they always used to nominate only the skilled ones. I know it because I used be to one of the good students.
Now when I realize it today I feel that the teachers used to do it to save their faces. Since improving the skills of those less-students required efforts from the side of the teachers while those who used to be the skilled-students were the favorite of teachers for two reasons
1. Since they were good performers
2. They troubled teachers less since they were already skilled and were quick learners(may be because of previous school and family background)
So, this gap of skills keeps on increasing because of such outdated education system. So, by the time a student passes out of a school there is a huge gap between the skills of a student who was given more opportunities and the one who was not given much opportunities. Then there comes college life and the college all the students get admission in, also depends on their skills. And those who are more skilled get admission in a good college while those who are less-skilled get admission in a college which is not so good. And the thing responsible, for some students not getting admission in a good college, is again this outdated education system which doesn't allow some students to develop skills even if they are willing. And it is not only the teachers who are responsible for this but the entire education system and the design of curriculum.
Now this gap of skills among the students increases further since some are studying in good college while others are not.
And when it comes the time of getting employed it is but natural that only the skilled ones get employed. Again those who get employed become rich while who don't get employed remain poor. And mostly it happens that the students whose parents were reach only they become skilled, employed and hence rich. And those whose parents were not rich don't become skilled, employed and hence become poor.
So, ultimately the rich becomes richer and the poor, poorer.


So, an important conclusion which can be derived from above discussion is that the outdated-education-system is the reason behind many or almost every problem in our country. And it is also a reason behind the problems like Naxalism(which is a result of this rich-poor gap).
So, we saw how education and Naxalism are connected. What a good connection of dots!!!!!!!!
Now, when I've already connected dots and raised a problem I should also suggest some solutions on how to design a curriculum for an education institute.
These days when extra curricular activities are given more importance than the curricular activities, it becomes necessary to redefine the curricular activities.
Though I don't have experience of teaching and academics but the experience of being a student has helped me a lot in understanding the education system.


So, followings are the suggestions as per best of my knowledge
1. First of all education institutes should have an assessment test of all its students. Based on the assessment test all the students should be categorized in different grades.
2. Now, just after getting admission in an institute the student should be made aware of his score in the assessment test. Student should be made aware of where does he stands now. This practice must be followed in almost all higher education institutes.
3. The score of assessment test should reflect the student's employability(specially in a B-School).
4.Then there must be skill enhancement programs for the students which should help in improving a student's assessment-test scores and hence employability.
5. keeping in mind the assessment scores of the students the institutes should design a system which can raise students assessment-test scores to a certain level. And should improve students' employability skills to a certain level.
6. Keeping in mind the assessment-scores, the system should be designed in a way so that the number of training hours for every student should be fixed.
7. After the first assessment test there should be more such tests at least twice a trimester.
8. Before every trimester each student should be given a target to increase his/her assessment-test score to a certain level. And twice in a month or on weekly basis every students and his/her parents must be told of his/her rate of progress that whether he/she is improving with the right speed or not
9. Education services must be customized. And the curriculum should be such that the grade-sheet directly reflect the employability of students nothing else.
10. If a student is not successful even after scoring good grades then there is surely a problem with the system and not the student.
Implementing above things is not easy because in India there is not enough quantity of teachers, leave alone quality. We also need a very good student-teachers ratio probably 20-30:1.