Rural Education Vs Urban Education

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Education is an important aspect for the development of our society.Again education have two different faces in rural and urban education..The learning environments of students have major impacts on how the students shape their careers,contribute towards the society and these environmets also determines their performances.Urban areas which are heavily populated faces its own set of challenges when comes to education.

With urbanisation in india accelerating at a rapid rate there is an increase in demand of more educational institues in india.Everyone now want their to study in the best educational institutes of the country and this has led to demand of more and better eduactional institutes.Educational institutes are now being seen as money …show more content…

doesnt education also helps us inculcate the moral and social values in our children.Highly I feel that that while education standards have gone up,but we have forgotten everything about our rich past.Previously,India followed the Vedic education system until we came under colonial rule.The Englishmen introduced their own education system which follow till now and our rich Vedas were forgotten.The Vedas are the best expression of our enlightened culture and they mean knowledge.The Vedic education system objective was to improve the physical,mental and intellectual personality of a student while forming a good and moral character.In todays scenario we see a student is being judged by his report cards and grades and grades count success but what about ethics?Also the link with the nature is broken which used to exist in the past and also the relationship between the guru and the student.Previously,the guru used used to teach the student as long as the student wanted to and whatever wanted to be taught until one day the teacher realized the student had learned enough.Modern education system remains confined to class rooms and students do not interact with and learn about nature.This is not although the current education has produced some good business tycoons,leaders but more often we hear them saying …show more content…

inventors,scientists,thinkers.Another massive problem of urban education is that of educating urban poors.Like Mumbai although an metro city has close to half of its population living in slums
,chawls.They are adversely affected and much more than people living in rural areas.People living in slums only have access to few life eminities.They are barely schools giving concessions to poor children and while all the urban schools are highly unaffordable for the people living in slums.This is a big problem and needs to be addressed quickly.NGOs and government should take steps educational facilities for students in slum areas.Illiteracy is a bigger problem and can only be eradicated if we take steps to provide education to slum poors.Also we see due to less family income children are being forced into labour and are found to be underpaid that means child labour should also be taken account and government should have strictness towards child labour and as we education as step to development of our country these major problems should be looked upon and reforms should be introduced.Education is a priveledge, a bare necessity for everybody