Common curriculum across the nation

A nation should not impose a rule of a single national curriculum in school till college. At the outset, this suggestion may look attractive since it seeks more equanimous society in the future by providing the same educational opportunities to everybody in school. But, there may be serious consequences due to elimination of choice for the individual participants during the course of accessing the fundamental need of education in the early stages of life. Every individual has a different aspiration, different aptitude sets towards different various & range of social as well as biological capabilities.It may be argued that the diverse educational requirements may be fulfilled after they enter college & till then, a generalized curriculum can be perceivably better for an equity in the society. Superimposing a fixed educational setup for the first 12 years of student life can be acheived in two ways: (a) Select all topics across the major disciplines & cover the basic knowledge required to enter college with specialities. (b) Select a curriculum structure which trains the pre-college teens towards the commercial world, tuning the course work with the socio-economic requirements of manpower planning & social harmony. Developing either of these strategies is not deterministic & assumes a smoothe transition from pre-college to college mindset in a very short time. Hence, there should be two to three standards of education based upon overall difficulty & academic rigour. The range should suffice the needs of parents who want to prepare their children for international standards and who are well-endowed as well as those who want their children to get a modest learning with minimal stress. The second problem is presence of barriers in setting such a common framework. The cultural topography, geography as well as socio-economy of nations hardly remain uniform across the states. There are regional languages which people prefer to learn, regional authors/peots whose contribution is essential for the basic education to that region. The elimination of choice of state-wise curriculum will erode opportunities to learn these regional factors. The nation can impose a common language of instruction for pre-college students but enforcing a common curriculum is not justified enough.