A revolution in education

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I was talking to a friend of mine whose cousin's kid was supposed to join classes in India but was stuck abroad due to the present pandemic. As they were wondering how to enroll and whether they will lose an year, the school announced online interviews and admissions. Now the classes are also going on online for the past couple of months. This has made me wonder whether this will really change schooling in a way not imagined before.

Kids are attending schools from 3000 kilometres away. The impact of distance has been reduced to nothing. If we had trouble of children being able to reach the school before, now it is no longer true. Schools have reached the children.

I see the following things unfolding in the near future:

  • People can study in any school of their choice irrespective of the location
  • There is going to be a big change in curriculum
  • Curriculum and content are going to decide where a student is going to learn
  • The importance of schools will come down and more importance will be given to the syllabus
  • Schools will merely become places where children will come once a month to write exams
  • The need for big schools with many classrooms may no longer seem relevant if we could stagger the exam calendar
  • Schools may not even be required to own laboratories and can share laboratory spaces
  • A pay per student/use model for laboratories may arise
  • Villages and remote areas can have exam centres; and for laboratories the students can go to cities periodically
  • The shortage of teachers in a country like India will also be met since now one teacher can take virtual classes to any number of students
  • The reservation system may no longer make sense because there are no finite seats, but rather infinite opportunities to learn from anywhere in the world without compromising on quality
  • Everyone has the same accesses and this truly breaks a lot of barriers that education was having
A revolution is just around the corner and looks promising for the education industry.


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