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Problems of Indian Education System

Indian Education system has many severe problems. They can be categorized under four heads : Quality,Quantity, Financing and Others. Quality Poor Rankings of Indian Institutes Quality of teachers Students don't have skill-sets required by industry Old Curriculum Poor quality of primary education  Quantity Low literacy rate Increasing demand of education as the population is increasing(education accessibility) limited seats in Universities Financing Lack of Infrastructure  Short Supply of Educators Salary structure of teachers Others Indian education system promotes Rat Race Lack of ambition(risk taking ability) for entrepreneurship in students Lack of proper career  counselling  Rote Learning Note: In rest of the blog, I will try to write about the solutions to above problems. Edit #1: (March 03,2017)   I found a beautiful question on quora. I wasamazed to see so many answers to this question. Some of the answers are really good. https://www.quora.com/What...

What is the formula of success?

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    The motivation for writing this article is Fort Minor’s song “ Remember the name ”. Is there any composition of attributes /skills/qualities that are required to become successful? If we assume that if people remember your name, it means you are successful, then according to that song they have said following compositions will work fine: “Ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent concentrated power of will, five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name” Do you agree with those compositions? Or do you have a different composition according to you? Anyways, let us forget about the song and we should focus on our main discussion that what is the recipe of being successful. Even if we want to make a cup of tea, which is considered to be the simplest item to be cooked after the ban on Maggi in India, we need to have a proper mix of ingredients of tea. Similarly is there any recipe for being successful?...