Is Classroom education the best possible way to provide education or is it harmful?

This has now been a common discussion regarding education systems. Several questions have rosed like “ it is a kind of forceful education, it doesn’t provide enough independence to express the feelings, questions, ideas of one neither does it provide a liberal environment to express a child/student s’ inner thoughts”. Well, we have no choice but to accept this because it is true. Some famous pioneers of science and technology, authors, and philosophers became the victims of classroom education, and they lost their acceptance in the classroom. Like Sir Thomas Elva Eddison, Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore. And now we learn about them in schools, colleges etc. In general, there should be few criteria to provide a proper education in the classroom-

1. School education should give liberty and freedom for the expression of one’s thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

2.It should be an engaging session or engaging process of education rather than just sharing information, notes, and a few dates and times. 3. Students may come up with a new way of thinking or may question the foundation of any concept. Authorities and teachers representing the classroom must accept them and encourage others to be involved. Any student with any deformities should be accepted and should be given special care.

But still there lies a basic problem. If the students are surrounded by four walls like a person trapped in a cuboidal box, then how it provides enough room for children and students to feel free, they may feel suffocated. If a person believes in a free and liberal way of thinking then there must not be any limit any boundary. We cannot just pretend to be free inside a cuboidal box. In reality, the whole classroom education structure is just a manifestation of a person in a cuboidal box receiving education blindly, even if he didn’t want to. It narrows one’s point of view. To provide liberty and freedom to a person, that person must feel freedom and liberty to express themselves. However, few eminent persons have tried to deconstruct that model and created a new model.

E.g., Rabindranath Thakur of India introduced a new education system in 1921 named Vishva Bharati, meaning where the world makes a home in a single nest. Their students used to receive education from teachers in the open air, surrounded by trees and birds built upon the lap of nature. It initially gained huge success, but later, the authority was unable to move forward with rapid modernization, consumerism, and the rise of capitalism and was forced to move towards classroom education. So there may be no substitute and better way of learning than classroom education in the present scenario, but we must find a way to make it more beautiful, more pleasant, and more acceptable because Education is not a luxury. It is a necessity.

Classroom education has a positive impact on students, but the traditional setting—confined within four walls and crowded with many individuals—can create an uncomfortable atmosphere. This environment may leave some students feeling suffocated, insecure, or inferior. While a few students can adapt and thrive in this situation, others struggle to cope, and some may feel overwhelmed by the pressure.

This situation reflects a broader truth about life: it can be dangerous and often presents challenges on the journey toward specific goals. Although only a few may succeed in reaching their ambitions, some find contentment at certain levels, while the majority may struggle to achieve their desired outcomes. The long-lasting battle of "Survival of the Fittest" starts in the classroom, which is a key part of reality.

Our entire system operates within these four walls, which can feel like a trap from the moment we are born. To express our opinions, demand our rights, and share thoughts and ideas within society and culture, we must be strong and resilient, prepared to fight against the odds to make progress. This struggle is not just about advocating for our rights or sharing our thoughts; it represents the ongoing battle between who we were in the past and who we are becoming—each moment, at every step. Not everyone can navigate this phase successfully, and many may lose their battle. These challenges often emerge in the classroom setting. The classroom is one of the basic foundations of our learning and education. It gives us the platform the opportunity to fight against the unpleasant, unsynchronized moments forcing us to reshape ourselves to emerge as a victorious warrior or can be a fatal incident for us. Our entire system operates within these four walls, which can feel like a trap from the moment we are born. To express our opinions, demand our rights, and share thoughts and ideas within society and culture, we must be strong and resilient, prepared to fight against the odds to make progress. This struggle is not just about advocating for our rights or sharing our thoughts; it represents the ongoing battle between who we were in the past and who we are becoming—each moment, at every step. Not everyone can navigate this phase successfully, and many may lose their battle. These challenges often emerge in the classroom setting. The classroom is one of the basic foundations of our learning and education. It gives us the platform the opportunity to fight against the unpleasant, unsynchronized moments forcing us to reshape ourselves to emerge as a victorious warrior or can be a fatal incident for us.
You may get disheartened become the victim of betrayal and, disloyalty, and bullying. Still, you have to keep faith in yourself and make yourselves prepared because a good day and good moment are waiting for you.
The classroom does not provide us with the solutions to every problem in life but gives us ample opportunity to understand our flaws, failures, limitations, incapability, and necessity to fight and gives us the raw courage to argue, and to make us realise that if you want your basic rights, thoughts, demands then you have to fight and earn it, nobody is going to give it to you. You have to earn it.
So, it would be wrong to say that classroom education was not good for becoming the main part of the foundation, but we must make it better, more constructive, and more acceptable.