Understanding the language of nature and writing them in mathematical formula like no one before was not enough, that Ramanujan needed to spend time, energy and alas even life to be recognised in a language aliens to him. It is painful to calculate the loss which could have been prevented if he would had worked in his mother tongue.
Talking especially of technical education, Indian talent has suffered great losses in the name of language. It’s a psychologically proven fact that students grab things in their mother tongue much more easily than in a language they start reading later in their life. This hampers the cognitive ability, which is essential for spontaneous development.
Providing equal opportunities and level playing field to the mother tongue medium students, who appear to be in a bad shape when it comes to reading technical books and writing exams in English, is essential to bring parity in the education system. Situation seems to be rather worse in Hindi speaking states as around 50% of all students come from the Hindi background. Bringing to the fore the inherent talent of the students coming from backwards areas, rural background, etc. & tapping it to the fullest is essential for complete transformation of the technical education system which doesn’t appear to be in a good shape presently. If their technical abilities are left unharnessed, the dream of a knowledge based economy of 21st century with a scientific bent of mind, can’t be realized.
Language is the biggest roadblock to R&D as technicality or technical education or intelligence of an individual has nothing to do with any language. It has been proved time and again by different scientific researches. The scientific developments in countries like Japan, China, France, Israel, Germany and a few others have sufficiently and repeatedly proved to the globe that technical education could be provided equally efficiently in any language of the world.
Currently technical education is a prerogative to the students coming from only relatively higher economic and social strata of the society, however they may or may not be good for the technical education. The reason behind the failure of engineering in Hindi medium project was translation of engineering terminology in Hindi. For making technical education a success, it is essential that books be written by the technical experts who could write in Hindi or in association of the people who also write Hindi well and understands technical education or things related to it.
India is also a country with a large section of its population falling in the middle class category. Students, belonging to particularly this section are majorly inclined towards pursuing either Engineering or Medical studies. It is high time the barriers of language be removed for the lot in order to free up their time, energy, money and increasing their chances of having a more promising future, and ultimately increasing chances for the country to expect more promising future generations .
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