Challenges for quality education in the times of pandemic.

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We must admit that face-to-face interactions between teachers and students along with vibrant and healthy debates amongst peers within the classroom and outside are integral to quality teaching. Education provides us knowledge of our society and environment and hones our skills to change them for the better. Education also helps us to develop our own perspective of looking at our lives, prepares us to have our own points of view and form our own opinions on different facets of life. Education today is not the process of gaining information. Any willing person can have access to immense data and information nowadays through different websites and e-based platforms. But, can information be transformed into knowledge without education? Only education can train us to interpret different issues and events in our lives. Since the beginning of 2020, we have been facing a crisis of enormous proportions. The COVID-19 pandemic has been wreaking havoc across the globe upsetting our lives and livelihoods. Therefore, all the enrolled students in schools, colleges and universities have been unable to go to their institutions for almost a year due to the restrictions imposed to check the spread of the novel coronavirus since the middle of March 2020. This has hurt students immensely. Under the circumstances, let us divert our attention from these bleak probabilities to what needs to be done at the earliest. First, we must admit that face-to-face interactions between teachers and students along with vibrant and healthy debates amongst peers within the classroom and outside are integral to quality teaching. Online education may complement this method of learning but cannot substitute it. Social and emotional learning like empathy, attention, collaboration and negotiation, critical and creative thinking, growing awareness of multiple perspectives and developing respect for others who are different, are difficult to inculcate among students without face-to-face classroom teaching. Second, having said this, we have to understand that, when, for any reason, be it a pandemic or any other unforeseeable reason, classroom learning is not possible.


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