while politicians debate on the future of our education system, this is a tribute to the unfortunate Student who grows up like a prisoner in Kala Pani. As long as he is studying, he is only a number. To the school,he is a roll number. To his parents, he is simply marks. To the college he seeks admission,he is a percentage. If papa is asked by a complete stranger about his beta, pat comes the reply:"He got 92 per cent in class 12 boards!" Thirty years later,this boards story is dangling from a crowded local in women gossips,wondering what was so great about getting 92 per cent. He feels like shouting at the crowd that is pushing him around - "Hey,watch it, buddy, I got 92 per cent in boards!" But chances are that he will be asked to shut up by the crowd - "So what if you got 92 per cent! We are all school dropouts and you're still stuck with us!"
He cant help but wonder why mama and papa ruined his childhood by burdening him with coaching classes, stop him from playing galli cricket and lock up the television set? "Go to your room and study the Pythagoras Theorem! You must come first in your class this year, beta." The kid goes to his room and studies the Pythagoras gibberish, completely oblivious of the fact that the Theorem can't teach him how to fix a flat tyre!
In fact, nothing he learns as a student equips him to deal with the realities of living. As he hangs from the crowded bus to his school,the student wondes about Trigonometry.He also realises about the reproductive system of a flower and the abdominal segment of a cockroach doesn't help him change a light bulb? Preparing for the competitive exams and their parents are risking enmity with their kid to flatter their neighbours by a shocking acheivement of their son, their consolence being that all they think about is their son's success n his long life. How desperately the kid want his parents to know that he wants to enjoy the small things of life. And at the end of the road, he is left with is guilt, apology to his parents and the tag of "Loser" stuck around his back!
On the other hand, as their son gets into secondary education, his parents wonder why he is taking longer to pass out than it takes them to repay the loan they took to put him on college! They are clueless when their son says he's taken a drop or has a backlog of last term's paper to clear! The parents learns much later in life that the word "failed" can be conveyed in many other ways.
When he survives the deadly world and reaches home, the student wonders why the government wants to scrap Class X board exams...Why not scrap the entire education system!
He cant help but wonder why mama and papa ruined his childhood by burdening him with coaching classes, stop him from playing galli cricket and lock up the television set? "Go to your room and study the Pythagoras Theorem! You must come first in your class this year, beta." The kid goes to his room and studies the Pythagoras gibberish, completely oblivious of the fact that the Theorem can't teach him how to fix a flat tyre!
In fact, nothing he learns as a student equips him to deal with the realities of living. As he hangs from the crowded bus to his school,the student wondes about Trigonometry.He also realises about the reproductive system of a flower and the abdominal segment of a cockroach doesn't help him change a light bulb? Preparing for the competitive exams and their parents are risking enmity with their kid to flatter their neighbours by a shocking acheivement of their son, their consolence being that all they think about is their son's success n his long life. How desperately the kid want his parents to know that he wants to enjoy the small things of life. And at the end of the road, he is left with is guilt, apology to his parents and the tag of "Loser" stuck around his back!
On the other hand, as their son gets into secondary education, his parents wonder why he is taking longer to pass out than it takes them to repay the loan they took to put him on college! They are clueless when their son says he's taken a drop or has a backlog of last term's paper to clear! The parents learns much later in life that the word "failed" can be conveyed in many other ways.
When he survives the deadly world and reaches home, the student wonders why the government wants to scrap Class X board exams...Why not scrap the entire education system!
i dunno if its about reforming d education system, bt ya, d system does need a change.. studying log or calculus wont help in paying income-tax..but we cant help it.. real life applications do exist such as BBA or MBA..but at the end we dont study 2 apply in real life?? studyin ol dat is maybe justd 2 broaden ur mind, so dat u tend 2 grasp things mor easily, u becum sharper.. it aims at carving ur mind 2 adapt 2 difficult situations (lyk exams..)..basically woteva happens is fr our gud..as it comes frm age old tradition of gurukul system..so we shud accept woteva is served 4 us thinkin it as god's rule..the new gen is basically facin prob wd regard 2 education.. cs dis gen is a complete tech gen.. dey lv spoon-feedin a lot.. our parents neva complained fr studies..bt we do..cs we lyk evrythin fast n furious.. we cant wait 2 stdy, giv exam, wait fr result, pass on 2 next class..it becums long n boring!! so betr w shud try changin ourselves!!
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reform doesn't come easy as long as one lives in a country where speaking about murkier truths is a voodoo but shitting in public isn't. people here are still in their Neanderthal being. but its a job well done. we have to start from somewhere...and this is really the high time that we understand our priorities and pack up ourselves to feel free to express what we want the country to change. educational reform is one of them. way to go soman !
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