Quality of Education

When i see back at my life, i think i was able to come to this point because i got education good enough. There's a big difference between education and quality education. Quality Education motivates from within, that drives a person to take steps of his own, and explore the depth of knowledge.
Upto 10th grade i studied what all was necessary to pass the exams. Cram up things and you have better chance of performing. My approach was to study what was necessary to pass the exams. I rarely understood the depth of what i studied and that is why i hardly can recollect that stuff. Then i remember i started preparing for IIT-JEE exams. Well in exams like that you can never get through with an approach like that. I joined a coaching institute that changed my complete perception, i saw my teachers took so much interest in our studies. They present a boring theoritical stuff in so much interesting manner that i was able to picture the stuff and form a better understanding of things. They were our role models, i followed their words so closely like i never did. We solved chemical reactions in AIR and believe me, we didnot need a board. We dont grasp things written on the board but the image it forms in our minds. There was person double PHD in maths and physics. I so damn enjoyed his class. Sometimes we just got confused which subject were we studying. He used to say math is tool and physics is an application, we studied physics as advanced mathematics. He could solve a algebra prob with trignometry, trigno prob with complex numbers and so on. When he solved a problem he didnot think which topic, he encountered it with his complete knowledge. There were instances he could boil down our 2 page solution to mere 3 lines. 1st line is a linear equation, 2nd is complex numbers , 3rd is trigno... He totally dig into us giving us the exposure of how things should be perceived. We could see the passion in him when he solved a challenging problem.
He was just a marvel.
Today i donot remember his name, what i can recollect is his charisma, his attitude, his words.
I am really fortunate to have encountered him in my life.

A quality education system is one that sets standards high enough so as to motivate students to pursue studies no matter what...

The Initiative

It all starts with a thought. What lacks in India that USA has.? Why is India still developing and Japan is already developed? How is any developed nation better than a developing nation? What holds a nation from being developed.? Why India doesnot have that kind of inventions and innovations that USA , China , Japan etc has.?
For instance i have been watching electoral campaigns in US in news, it is a totally different experience. The people are really concerned about tinest of the facts about the presidential candidates and each word that is written in their electoral manifesto. They have a total different set of issues as compared to what it is in our country.
They have a totally different approach, they talk about quality education, they are concerned about global warming and want to use renewable energy resources, they want good healthcare, etc and they have healthy debates on what is really good for the nation. They want economic independance and want to reduce the trade deficit. They have a big difference in their approach.
Million dollar question for us here is Why??
simple, because they understand those things. In India if we gonna talk about these things common folk hardly can understand this stuff. Definatly the true spirit of a nation is represented by the people who inhabit that nation. India is basically a half-illiterate nation.
I went searching the literacy figures for nations, here's what i found

India : 61%
USA : 99%
Japan: 99%
China: 90.9%
Bangladesh: 47.5%

here's the complete list of nations by literacy

In the list of 177 countries India lies on 147 position. Well these figures quite explains things above. Why the people in developed nations or say literate nation tend to think differently or lets say think constructively. Also to note there was no mention of countries Afganistan and Iraq in the list. It further validates the point. The countries with no education have no ability to think and therefore have high probabilty of getting misguided or controlled.
All said and done, India needs education and on top of it quality education, an education system that sets standards high enough so as to motivate students to pursue studies no matter what.
To make two points meet there has to a line drawn between them and that forms the path to reach out for the second point.