1000+ Current Group Discussion Topics with Answers

Yes, we should:

The present system of education, introduced two hundred years ago by our British masters to suit their requirements, has outlived its utility and hence must be replaced with a new one to answer the expectations of the 21^st century.

We no longer need just cheap clerks who could speak and write English during the British rule and did the pen pushing from them so that they did not have to import high salaried clerks from England.

We instead need to equip our future citizens with the knowledge and capability to realise their potential to the fullest extent possible and produce more- both physically and intellectually.

Our present system of education places undue and overemphasis on cramming or learning by rote. The more facts and figures you can remember and produce in the examination, the more intelligent you are supposed to be.

Your creative imagination is not allowed to develop and if you do happen to show creativity, it is smothered by deducting your marks. What is more, our students are still being taught old, unrevised historical data and scientific researches. For example while England, France and Iran have changed their languages to keep in touch with the present, we are still continuing with the same literature in them as we did a hundred years ago.

Our present system of education does not test the real worth or ability of a person, nor does it encourage him to inculcate true knowledge from his own experience. It instead, measures a man’s capability by suitable answers to just a few questions from his syllabus in the examination hall.

The purpose of education is said to bring out the best possible in a man so that he develops himself to the fullest potential.

Therefore, we should scrap such deleterious education system lock, stock and barrel and introduce a new one in its place that suits the needs and requirements of our populous, resource rich and forward looking nation.

No, we shouldn’t:

Our present system education system has been commended by such statwards as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sir C.V. Raman, Sri Jagdish Chandra Bose, Sri S.Radhakrishnan. Were they in any way less knowledgeable than us? Hence there is no point in condemning it. Yes, there is always scope for improving the system but scrapping it altogether will help neither the nation nor the students.

The present system of education has served us well for two hundred years and there is, therefore, no point in replacing it with another lest we should fall from the frying pan into the fire. The so called defects we talk of are there in any education system. Moreover, the fault lies more with ourselves who did not implement the system for the good of all and not with the system as such.

We might condemn our examination system, but have we thought of any suitable alternative? For all its shortcomings, it does provide us with an objective criterion to judge a student worth.

We cannot blame our student community or the present system of education for indiscipline or disrespect among our students. The blame lies elsewhere – with our teaching community which devoid of any missionary zeal to tend its students, thinks only in mercenary terms.

Therefore, instead of barking up the wrong tree, to improve our education system we should set out to correct the flaws in the thinking of our teachers and employ only those to teach who exhibit a marked dedication and aptitude to better those given in their charge.

Moreover, as against the present situation where those rejected elsewhere take to teaching and the collective mindset of our society and of the powers that be to give low priority to education and the educators, the teachers must be given a pride place in society because they are real builders of the nation, grooming as they do, the future citizens of the country. This alone is the practical solution to all our problems with the education system.