Gyan Memoriel Convent School - Rewa

Advantages of a Mother tongue based education: Expand the reach of education. Many rural kids would have their parents and relatives with no knowledge of English. Forcing an English medium education can put them at a significant disadvantage. Improved learning outcomes during primary school. A few researchers have shown that having a mother tongue education enable the kids to easily grasp the course content as they are used to the vocabulary. Page on Rti Protecting and preserving local languages. Disadvantages of a mother tongue based education: 1. Painful shift in higher education: The students will have a painful shift at highschool or college when they are required to learn engineering, medical or accounting concepts in English. Couple of my roomates at college had Tamil based education and had to suffer a lot during the first two years at college. Although they were very smart, they had to keep translating all the concepts from Tamil to English. 2. Connecting with the rest of the world: Mother tongue based education promotes the mother tongue at the cost of the bridge languages (in India it is Hindi and English) that would enable the students to connect with the rest of the world. If the school doesn't expose them to English, they will find it very hard in mastering the language (as their parents and surroundings don't). 3. Getting greater opportunities. In the highly fluid world we are in, people need to be conversant with English. The Europeans and Japanese are at a disadvantage in this aspect. Ideally, we should have a blend of English and mother tongue, where the parents teach the kids in mother tongue and schools teach in English with some sort of a bridge facilitated by both of them This year itself, I took admission in Delhi University for my further education. In my initial days, I do not interacted with my class mates so well. However, as the days passed, gradually I increased my interaction & discovered that many of my mates are from hindi medium background. They have been taught every subject of their curriculum in pure hindi, with English as merely one subject. I developed a good connection with a girl from the same category. She told me the problems she's has been facing due to language. No matter how hard she tries, she is hardly able to comprehend the content. She found herself underconfident. Though she understand the topic, she is unable to express it. From all this, one could easily conclude the disadvantages of such system(hindi) . In the name sake of mother language, such system is exploiting the lives of children. Introduction of complete English language in curriculum may bring a positive transformation in the future of the country. Basically i can elaborate this answer into two views First is what if we don't learn English and the second one is how far are regional languages better comparatively.