Meritocracy: Journey from Equality to Equity of Values

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Education is globally recognized as the main agent in the creation of progressive society. It enables an individual to think globally, to act rationally and to draw conclusions logically. Education system is viewed from different angles by different philosophers or thinkers. Some consider it as mode of change while some take it as seed of imbibing values in child. It not only prepares individual for vocations but also helps him to inculcate progressive values.
In today’s age of Artificial Intelligence, the domain of value education is shrinking as technology is superseding the human actions. Due to this dominance, the values which were and are the identification of Indian society are being faded away. Today’s education system is lagging behind technology for making a child technologically sound as well as socially and culturally rich individual because we impart education to child who is more wealthy in place of who is more capable. We keep on feeding the rich mind who does not want to study in place of poor minds who actually want to prosper. We give opportunities to already advantaged sections in place of actually needy sections because we talk about Equity but in reality we only practice equality. This thin line between these two terms can be vanished from Meritocracy.
Meritocracy is the practice of supporting and valuing the talent, capability and creativity of an individual. It favors the poor minds with creative thoughts and sound values over rich minds with generalized ideas and poor values. It is mindset of inculcating the values of honesty, transparency and hard work. It makes students studying and teachers teaching in classrooms to work out of passion not out of tension. When a person knows he is valued because of his abilities, then he is bound to work ethically. It gives a sense of responsibility to perform fair with no alternative of cheating and mischief. 
Thus in the world of transparency, we should also practice some transparent value system, i.e. system of Meritocracy. It will not only bring zeal to work but also zeal to react logically, fairly and rationally because
“People should be judged on their abilities and talents.”


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