Prof. Ram Takwale, while speaking at the second decennial anniversary function of YCMOU said that he believes that the learning system must be open in every way possible. Practice makes one perfect. Rote learning is not how we can create individuals who can cope with the demands that the society makes. It is important to understand and assess each person for his or her own skills, not by a common yardstick. “There are ten known kinds of intelligence, like emotional intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence etc., not just the logical and communicative intelligence that are adjudged by preset tests in our schools today”, Dr. Takwale vehemently asserts. He says that the system needs innovation so that we can create the kind of social, ecological entrepreneurs who will think out of the box, who will innovate, create and ideate solutions for the various problems that are prevalent in the world today.
Dr. Takwale abides by the axiom that we inherit the world from our children. If we do not give the freedom for the children to think, to express themselves without judgment, then how can we expect that our children will have a better future. Dr. Takwale, said that the open education system is the step for the future. Open in every way for it incorporates technology as well as communication as the base support to facilitate learning. It encourages the learner to learn what he is interested in, how much he can learn as well as at what pace he wishes to learn. There is flexibility in this where students are not bound in a straitjacket where the pressure for percentage in this perverse rat race has resulted in heartbreak for so many families. “Numbers and grades are all that parents seem interested in. They do not understand that each child has a special skillset that must be honed through a flexible motivated system that facilitates learning. The truth is that every child wants to learn. It is not for us to dictate what he should learn”, says Dr. Takwale.
Why should distance education be the exception and not the norm is the dire question for whole system. The migration of students from traditional learning methods to this new innovative system may just be the key to reducing student suicides and to revamp a system that has proved handicapped in providing solutions to pressing issues.
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