Composition on: Technical Education

Technical Education

We live in an age of machines. There are few households in our country that do not now-a-days depend upon machinery directly or indirectly. Manual labour is monster superseded, by steam, gas and electrical triumph. The mighty forces of nature are being harnessed to serve the want of man. We are dressed by machinery; transported by machinery; lighted by machinery. Hence we have to be mechanics and technicians to manage these, and must build up heavy industries to manufacture these. The need for industrial education in our country is no longer a subject to debate. Gone are the days when to be a clerk in a office, driving the quill under the soothing breeze of fans, was the ambition of the average. Bangladeshi youth, and all the machinery that he had to handle was perhaps the type writer. Today we are fervent to believe on our area beside colossal facility driven machines. But in over to accelerate progress and develop efficiency in this direction, we have to alter our system of education. Larger room must be found for technical subject in our curriculum and courses of studies. Now schools for these must be opened; old schools must be replaced by the sciences, for of course science is the basis of technical education. This is true that beginnings in this direction have been made. The government is sponsoring multi-purpose schools where the right type of students may go up for technical training. The secondary education boards are adjusting technical education with their syllabuses. Bangladesh Technical Education Board plays an important role in this regard. But this is a process that requires a lot of money. The industrialists may be compelled to maintain vocational and technical schools attached to their farms or workshops. Above all, vocational education is no doubt at present most necessary in Bangladesh. The government should take steps in this regard.