Indian Education vs Western Education

ed·u·ca·tion

• the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
• the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.
• a degree, level, or kind of schooling: a university education.

Objectives of the Study

  * Conducting study to understand the mindset of students, both Indian nationals as well as      foreign students, residing in India and abroad, in reference to the passing of the bill.
  * Analyzing the effects of the bill on India as well as the outside world.

Indian Education vs Western Education

The Western education system was establishing a hegemony over the Indian education structure in terms of pedagogy, knowledge systems and even language.

:) In western right to education has become law not the same case in India. Lot of kids do not go to schools in India and it is not mandatory by law as is in western / developed countries.
:) Teaching is done with the aid of technology tools such as computers and multimedia tools etc, India: mostly done using the black-board.
:) A teacher has to teach more students in India than a teacher in western countries because of limited school resources and the population of students.
:) Students in India have limited learning resources. For most it will just be the course books.
:) Indian education usage maximum power of brain while western education usage maximum power of technology to use brain!

• The Indian education system as such was setup to mass produce clerks.
•  Math has been are one strong point and we have always stressed on calculations without the use of any calculators. People abroad are very dependent on calculators for things we are used to doing "orally" so to speak. We do not have much of creative writing system (especially English) setup here although language skills are pretty good with most Indians having been brought up with 3 languages or more.
• Our system stresses more on final and mid term tests where as over there 60% of the years marks on a subject were based on year round performance which included written assignments only 40% for tests.
  
  

Up until college that is true, but it reverses in college generally. Still, that leaves the non-college educated behind.

I think that there are few reasons for this.

• The first is the European model tends to put people into careers.
• The second reason is the unfortunate consequence of having once been the world’s largest economy and superpower.

Few Differences are:
1. The basic approach and methodology of teaching is different. In India focus in education is either breadth or depth of knowledge whereas education in most foreign countries strike a balance.
2. In India theoretical knowledge is more than practical.
3. In India syllabus revision needs to be done more frequently.
4. Educational System in India needs to understand that "Education is not all about piling up of knowledge and certificates. Its all about implementation of what is taught or what we learn."
5. Focus of syllabus should change with growing technology in order to fight "Unemployment".
E.g - A student does his M.Sc/Engg in Computer Science and after completion he goes to institutions like GNIIT or APTECH to update themselves in a short term course by spending as much as they spent for their degrees.

In INDIA-Graduate school is very different from undergraduate school. There is no single book being followed; the reading and writing assignments require paper chases and are ambiguously defined. Also, most courses do not have regular evaluations such as quizes etc. but rely on a final project or term paper - this makes it very hard for one to know how much effort one needs to put into the course.
One has to come out of the "spoonfeed me" mode and learn to think independently. This lack of spoonfeeding in graduate school also means that one has to be motivated by themselves - especially in PhD programs. The amount that you get out of your master's or PhD depends on the amount of work you put in (more work also means faster graduation). There is no one motivating you to work harder or checking on your progress regularly.

Kids are pushed to study from the age of 3 and non-performers are treated as dolts and ostracized by parents and society.The preferred choice of learning and teaching is memorizing facts.

In the Indian system, individuals are not asked to stand up infront of the whole class and recite something. Instead, the whole class reads books out aloud together in unison.

However, in India, professors expect you to treat them like God and often use their almost dictorial powers against students who upset them in some way.

Computer science undergraduates focus in class and attitude towards the course was completely exam-oriented. They constantly wanted to know if what was being discussed would be on the quiz or the final. Almost no one in the class attempts to understand concepts.

In US- However, again, the downside of this is that students in the US who are more out-spoken do well in class and outside class too only because they are more effective speakers.
Classroom discussion and asking questions to the professors is encouraged.
Private liberal arts universities provide much better personalized attention to students besides a broader education.
 Also, non-science programs are stronger in general in the US due to the fact that they follow regular quarter or semester systems - in India, non-science programs usually have year long schedules with exams at the end of the year, whereas in the US, these programs have regular quizes and exams like all other science programs. On the other hand, most university students in India waste their whole year doing nothing; attendence requirements are very low and usually can be bypassed. 

CONCLUSION
This leads me to conclude that an Indian education is overall better atleast till the undergraduate degree (for engineering). However, graduate programs in the US are probably far ahead of most other countries due to the critical mass they have and the fact that they attract the best students and faculty from all over the world.