Indian school education system has over the years developed a complete disregard for liberal arts. Drawing, painting, music, dance, craft, are the subjects reserved only for junior classes. After 6th or 7th standard these subjects cease to exist. (This is very evident in poor students’ efforts to draw in NATA, AIEEE, and similar aptitude tests for admission to architecture course.) Even in junior classes they are looked down upon as irrelevant, time pass subjects. Instead, the kids are very heavily burdened of Science and Mathematics studies. Relevance of the depth of study of all the sciences and mathematics we learn during school days in everyday life is questionable. In fact, the relevance is never told to the kids. Only handful get engaged in careers that makes use of all this grounding in science and mathematics.
I believe, exposure to liberal arts plays very important role in personality building. In the today’s fast, taxing and stressful professional/ work routine liberal arts provide much required solace and rejuvenation to a human being. Engaging yourself in a hobby or practice of art is engrossing and makes you forget your day to day stresses.
We tend to look at and draw inspiration from the developed world. In this process we adapt many bad things of the developed world and ignore many good things. It is common in the developed world to spend the weekend at a picnic spot. The picnic is arranged keeping in mind main activity that is always related to some liberal art or serious hobby. Citizens take great pride in their hobbies and activities related to Art from they like and practice.
It is essential that our great educationists and school managements take a fresh, unbiased look at school education upto +2 level and attempt to make it more balanced and aiming to make good citizen.
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