What is 'An Ideal College?'
What is
an ideal college?
What is
the exact meaning of an ideal college? What exactly an ideal college refer to?
This answer will differ from one student to another. Each student has his own
set of preferences and likings, but still, an ideal college?
Everyone has or should have an ideal;
something which he can look forward to, of which he may dream, and for which he
may strive. In our colleges, we come across many defects or limitations. We
often discuss these among ourselves. And in course of these discussions, and
because of them, we come to cherish a vague notion of what would be an ideal
college, at last, what we would regard as an ideal.
College is a once-in-a-lifetime experience where
we can enjoy our precious youth and freedom. No one has a second chance to
experience college life again.
The ideal college
experience can be defined as an experience in discovery. This concept can be
applied within an educational context as well as a more personal discovery of
self. This is a time of new ideas, new ways of thinking, of understanding
different perspectives – no longer merely reading the material but acquiring
the tools necessary to think critically.
An ideal college is one where the best teachers work. The
teachers also go on improving their knowledge and ways of teaching. These
teachers are leaders of the students-commanding their obedience and respect. In
an ideal college, the teachers and the Principal are very kind to the students
and treat them with love. They try to know about the difficulties that they may
be facing in any way. They try to overcome their difficulties. They punish the
students only when they think that it is necessary.
An ideal college has the most modern computer teaching
programs. It provides the best of computer equipment in its laboratories and
workshops for all sorts of operations of the computer.
Moreover,
an ideal college must present the process or program of education in a
congenial manner. In a normal concept, particularly in India, I feel education
has a certain linkage with return on investment. Careers are decided based on
thinking that how much salary one can earn after acquiring the program. In
other words, colleges and institutions are nothing but mints for producing
youngsters and sending them for a queue at employment exchange is what I think
these days.
I
feel colleges are built with a motive to earn profits. The main target is high
profits at every stage. Students are either coming from rich families and their
objectives are showing their wealth and fashions. Some brilliant students, who
are from a normal middle class, try to work on their own. Teachers too must
struggle for the second group of candidates. The concentration is more on
theories and thesis. The practical aspect is totally neglected.
Bright
students and promising players in an ideal college are offered scholarships.
Poor but able students, who do not have proper homes and facilities, are
provided free comfortable accommodation (living facilities) in the hostel.
Not only
this, but the staff of a college should also be regular, qualified
and practical education-minded. Contact in industry and offices should be
established as and when required and students should be encouraged to develop a
friendship in this sector.
I think
we should have “ideal” colleges all over the country and as soon as possible.
Education continues to suffer badly, and we need to attend to it carefully. We
need to raise the standards of education urgently.
Lastly,
the ideal college should produce ideal citizens for the nation. Every student
should have the dignity of labour and should make efforts to learn while he
earns. My opinion does not favour co-education. My preference will be the
separate institutions for girls and boys. Even if co-education is adopted,
every care should be taken for a perfect discipline and observance of a regular
code of conduct.
What are
your thoughts?
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