The Indian schooling system is currently active, with approximately 24.8 crore students across 14.72 lakh schools. It also employs a massive number of teachers, standing at 98 lakh. Out of this number, state board schools form a large majority.
According to UNICEF’s reports about South Asia, only one in three children who reach fourth grade can read basic texts. This directly translates to millions of kids who have entered the primary education system but have not gained the basic skills of numeracy and literacy due to the lack of quality education.
More than one million neural connections are created each second in the first few years of life. The time period between 0 to 8 years of age are periods of exponential growth. It’s a pace at which it never repeats again afterwards in life.
Who is the most impactful pillar of an effective education system and its implementation? The teachers.
