Our Education System

A short story to present before you all. Once a examination was held in the forest and for the fair selection the activity given was to climb a tree. whoever climbs first ,scores the highest marks. All the monkeys danced with joy because climbing trees was a very easy task for them but the fish inside the pond kept on telling itself that it's whole life was useless.

I think, Every person is special. Born with some special talents. Keeping in mind, all children are not the same, way of understanding, answering and perceiving things differ from child to child. But unfortunately, every single child is forced to answer a common examination at the end of the academic year. The whole year's performance of child is gauged at the fag end of the scholastic year by asking questions selectively. Instead ,the progress report of every student should be based on day to day performance of the student...
I came across a convincing passage in one of the book that education till date is made a goal oriented and competitive process . It is further seen that our examination system makes child to focus on future rather than present. All the efforts are made by a student in concentrating on the exams to be conducted in future and by conveniently neglecting to gainfully learn from the present. Child fails to perceive the present moment and focus on future i.e. exams.

I think, An ideal education system should be based on the premise in which students should have freedom to choose subjects as per their interest. For example basic maths should be compulsory but students who want to pursue higher education in fields which are concerned with math as a subject, should have a option to opt for advanced maths. It is further seen that, History subject mainly offers knowledge about past. Great warriors, kingdoms, revolutions etc. Its main objective is to make pupils get some moral out of it and learn something from the past. But as a subject , in the present scenario it teaches us only to remember the dates of historical events but it fails to make us learn why a particular movement or revolution took place.
A beautiful quote represent my thoughts
" Education is not memorising 6 million jews were killed by Hitler. Education is about understanding how the rest ordinary Germans were convinced that it was required. "

I agree that basic knowledge should be acquired by pupils. The performance Students should be evaluated based on their interests and skills. Whenever skill and interest combine, it leads to the path of SUCCESS.