India should emphasize on self-help education.

Sir,

Re: India should emphasize on self-help education.

In my humble opinion, India is a poor nation with limited resources to help the millions who need education and training. Therefore, India should encourage people who want to get an education to help themselves. That is, self-help.

For generations we all have been taught by teachers inside the classroom. With the advent of computers, this is changing. CD’s are replacing teachers in the classroom. There is the classroom teacher in the one hand; and now there is the teacher inside the CD or DVD in the other hand. The classroom teacher and the CD teacher are not the same. The classroom teacher teaches everything just once. The CD teacher is better because you can repeat the instructions from the CD any number of times. And as you keep rewinding and replaying the instructions in the CD, it is almost impossible not to learn. Thus the educational CD caters to both fast learners and slow learners; and all you have to do is to keep rewinding and replaying the CD educational material.

Some time ago I bought CD’s from learnkey.com. in USA. Learnkey.com produces CD’s with educational material. It is excellent. The learnkey.com teacher is inside the CD. When you buy the CD, you have the teacher with you inside the CD or DVD. To my knowledge this is the best way to learn. Learning from the CD or DVD is the best way to learn. This may be the wave of the future. Again, as you keep rewinding and replaying the instructions in the CD, it is almost impossible not to learn. So the advantage is that educational CD’s and DVD’s can be rewound and replayed any number of times; and thus not learning from CD’s and DVD’s is almost impossible.

In sharp contrast, the classroom teacher teaches everything only once. On Monday the teacher will teach chapter one, on Tuesday chapter two, on Wednesday chapter three and so on. While the classroom teacher is teaching, some students are paying
tention, some students are not paying attention, and other students fall asleep. This is because in a classroom all the students are not the same; and they are not the same because they are all at different levels of development. Some students are slow learners and others are fast learners. However, if you have the teacher inside the CD or DVD, then the teacher becomes your own personal property; and since the teacher inside the CD or DVD is your own property, you as a student can rewind and replay the lectures numerous times until you understand it thoroughly. This is self-help.

Also, we live in a world where employers want employees to be trained before they are hired. We live in a world where co-workers would not train new workers; co-workers are jealous and uncooperative and would be reluctant to train other co-workers. Co-workers would prefer to keep their skills and experience to themselves. Thus a new worker would have to find ways to train himself. Going to college may be unaffordable to a worker. Therefore, a worker has to buy teacher in CD and teacher in DVD and train himself.

And now for your role, Sir. I guess your role is to influence entrepreneurs in India to produce teacher in CD and teacher in DVD in a wide range of subject matters. This may be the new wave in learning.

Thank you.