Nowadays, higher education entails streaming students into academic or vocational subjects. Despite being questioned for its validity and effectivity in the current context, this strategy has been continued since several reasons can be cited in support this format of formal tuition at high or secondary level.
The policy of streaming the pupils, at the age of 15, into vocational or academic area of studies, as per their abilities and inclinations carries multiple advantages. This helps the growing minds to clearly set their objectives and pursue them dedicatedly. As they have fewer subjects to explore and study, the pupils can focus on those completely. This does not only save them time but also protects them from extra burden they might have to bear while studying subjects of little consequence to the knowhow of domains the pupils are pursuing.
On the top of that, strategy of grouping students pursuing similar subjects offers certain inbuilt advantages. Like minded pupils pursuing homogenous syllabus tend to learn faster, and the class work progresses at a fairly brisk pace. Besides this, the young learners can also gauge their accomplishments in contrast to their classmates clearly and concretely, this often results in a healthy competition which ultimately is interpreted into excellent academic results.
Furthermore, this system can prove to be highly advantageous for the society too: the economy of a country can quickly harness the talents of young professionals and academicians, in form of their contributions to the economic productivity. These professionals, in their own domains, can bring around other benefits too, e. g. these professionals do not only save money, otherwise spent on training them, but also train others.
To conclude, I feel that pushing students into specific domain study at a young age can prove to be highly counterproductive.
Nowadays, higher education entails streaming students into academic or vocational
subjects
. Despite
being questioned
for its validity and effectivity in the
current
context, this strategy has
been continued
since several reasons can
be cited
in support this format of formal tuition at high or secondary level.
The policy of streaming the
pupils
, at the age of 15, into vocational or academic area of studies, as per their abilities and inclinations carries multiple advantages. This
helps
the growing minds to
clearly
set their objectives and pursue them
dedicatedly
. As they have fewer
subjects
to explore and study, the
pupils
can focus on those completely. This does not
only
save them time
but
also
protects them from extra burden they might
have to
bear while studying
subjects
of
little
consequence to
the
knowhow
of domains the
pupils
are pursuing.
On the top of that, strategy of grouping students pursuing similar
subjects
offers certain inbuilt advantages.
Like minded
pupils
pursuing homogenous syllabus tend to learn faster, and the
class
work progresses at a
fairly
brisk pace.
Besides
this, the young learners can
also
gauge their accomplishments
in contrast
to their classmates
clearly
and
concretely
, this
often
results in a healthy competition which
ultimately
is interpreted
into excellent academic results.
Furthermore
, this system can prove to be
highly
advantageous for the society too: the economy of a country can
quickly
harness the talents of young professionals and academicians, in form of their contributions to the economic productivity. These professionals, in their
own
domains, can bring around other benefits too,
e. g.
these professionals do not
only
save money,
otherwise
spent on training them,
but
also
train others.
To conclude
, I feel that pushing students into specific domain study at a young age can prove to be
highly
counterproductive.