In my view we have a genuine scarcity of quality teachers. In any high school, having say 20 teachers, we can count on our fingers individuals who are actually good teachers. As we move up to IITs, NITs, AIIMSes, Civil Servants Training Institutions. The situation remains the same. Only a few teachers are able to really become an asset of the institution. Rest are actually burden on the institution.

Actually, the rest is not a homogenous group. At the bottom of the rest, lies the poorest category of teachers who is simply incompetent. In between these two extremes, others can be placed. Some of them are good and are consistently trying to improve themselves.

However the purpose here is not to criticize and point out loopholes.

At primary school level, In case of government school, blame partly lies on the teacher training institutions. In case of Pvt. Institutions poor talent base and no training have role to play. Irrespective of reasons, the fact remains that we have a genuine scarcity of quality teachers.

In midst all this, the victim is the student. He is deprived from learning from the best in the field.

Whenever this problem is posed, the answers put up range from raising the public expenditure on education; improving pay scale; improving teacher training and their emphasis; reviewing  the teacher performance etc.

In short, it is all in the hand of government.

As a break there have been initiatives like Teach for India, khan’s academy etc and many others. But there is certainly a room for more breakthroughs.

Our education system should be able to

1. Create a youth who is capable of earning his living.

1. Create citizen who is close to the utopian individual.

It is in this context that I put up my idea of “meg (h)a  schools==cloud school” which will be a pool of knowledge from the best of teachers at every level of education. While creating a pool at all levels in a decentralised manner will be the first step. Achieving synergy of effort with the existing teaching community across all barriers will be the next step.

P S the problems in the sector can be said to be poor quality of teaching and high drop out with higher level. With better quality of education perhaps they can be remedied.