Our ancient varsities like Nalanda, Takshshila had incorporated some very practical and progressive methods of teaching and training.. Then, great teachers like Samartha Ramadasa, Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa, helped in creating age-defying leaders like Shivaji Bhosle, Swami Vivekananda, respectively.. Today, we have broken the patterns of pandering to colonial vestiges, such as Macaulay's designed Education System, and we are churning out such workforce that's making waves across the globe.. The plus is not just that little kids of today have started software development, but also that we are able to vest our faith in their calibre and in our relevance in today's age of YouTube, FaceBook, WhatsApp, with the last one having become indispensable and a super-useful tool for contacting any person, no matter where you or he/she are.. Now, smartphones are quadrupling as tutors, textbooks and even as trading-agents (in shares and debentures), and I am glad that we Indians have embraced this wave of transformational technology.. While some businesses like Amazon have given us lessons in disruptive business-practices, they are in essence contributing to the globalization that we are aiming at, and to the market-competition scenario that has undergone a sea change.. To cut long story short, our educational system is in for major overhaul and our students, for a truly world-class education experience.. The road to Self-reliance is paved with the five Is of innovation, inventiveness, initiative, inspiration and ingenuity, of our taskforce, comprising all the sections of the society and made more efficient and effective with contribution from personalities from all walks of life.. We must express our interest in and dedication to this cause, that can serve (has agelessly served) as the ultimate game-changer.. Today, even the kind of data packs (daily quota) and their options that Indians enjoy is also one of a kind as compared to developed countries, and we have to give it to the industrialization and the quality-control that our cellular industry eco-system is exhibiting.. All of this is adding to our employability, helping in tapping our potential as job-givers, and as assets (not a liability) in the youngest country of the world (in terms of demography).. No doubting this revolutionary and visionary wave and the capability of those (who are) riding on it successfully and with hard-core ethics and morale-boosting professionalism.. Amen to many such changes to follow, as we are on course to enhance our reputation of a 'force to reckon with', as termed by foreigners who are studying and mentoring India and its edge in the 21st Century..
