Pre School and Primary Education in India

In your Childhood did you ever feel uncomfortable carrying a big bag with lots of books in it.?
When I see the kids today going to school I feel they are not going to any normal school but they are going to some defence training.

People in India think Pre School/Primary Schooling in India is much better compared to western countries and that Children in India are Brighter than their American counterparts.

I dont refute that but in western countries the emphasis or stress from the childhood is doing what you think and feel are good at and not what others (including parents) want you to be.

So whereas Indian kids are good at Mathematical knowledge we dont encourage the kids to try out those Mathematical knowledge and see how it can be applied to create something new.

Thats why we dont have inventors but people who are good at supporting something after its invented.

Imagine if our Kids also tend to think creatively rather than being burdened by homeworks (Useless) and are good at Mathematics /Science/English and so on we will be truly knowledge powerhouse.

We have knowledge but what good is a knowledge when we cant put it to Practical use.

How many of our kids imagine of building something like a Device that can help the Handicapped person.?

IIT'ians/IIMians tend to go out of our country because although they start thinking creatively there is no incentive for them in India.

Parents nowadays want their Children to learn Computers (A Good thing in todays information Age) but how many Parents encourage their Children to build something using their imagination and how many parents actually encourage their children to do what the children feel like for eg
Pursue a career in Sports/Music/Starting own business's/Inventing something new.

I am a parent too and I do hope I don't fall into this trap.

India has to take the next leap into education to free up the mind of its new generation. It is nothing but the quality of education that makes Mahatma Gandhi's, Nehru's,Abraham Lincoln's and Nelson Mandela's.

Our education system finally ends up in how many marks scored but not what the child has learned. Reservation is not the issue but the issue is the quality of education. Its high time Indian education policy makers start concentrating on quality rather than quantity.