Hello friends,
Once I had to go to my relatives' house. When I was there, I saw a lady feeling glad about her four and half years old child's knowledge on Alphabets, numbers, colors, etc. I thought it was a regular conversation. In few seconds, I heard the kid reciting the Alphabets like "A for apple, B for Ball,...". Then he continued with numbers and colors. After some time, My brother(who was in some other state of mind) simply said " B for Bangalore". The reply given by the kid was an epic. He said " No...Uncle, B for ball". When my brother tried to convince him, he argued with my brother and didn't leave him until, my sibling accepts that it was his fault.
This is how our education system works. The teacher who should have taught the use of the letter 'B' in a word, has made him memorize the sentence 'B for ball'. When something is taught to a child, let him know why that is taught to him. Let him know that numbers help him to count, language helps him to communicate and colors help him to differentiate. Only then he realizes what he studies. Give him that knowledge. Tell him why he needs multiplication tables. Tell him why he has to learn Newton's laws of physics. Tell him why Asoka planted trees and why world wars happened. Teach him how a gear works with help of a cycle and Bernoulli's principle with a water sprayer. Make the subjects interesting. That is when he actually learns something. Otherwise all you teach him will go in vain. They aren't data storage elements. Treat them as humans. Let them ask questions. Try to answer all of them. That's when you learn something new.
There was test for students all over the world to check their learning process in which nearly 74 countries participated. India stood at 74th place. The reason India gave is that, the learning process in India is different,so tests didn't work well for Indian students. A kid in India who was said to having IQ level more than Einstein, is not able to invent anything. Consider me. I was taught integral and differential calculus. But I don't remember them. I just passed my exams and erased them off my brain. Should I still remember those formulas, just because it was there in my engineering syllabus? It is the right time (bit late) to think what is wrong with our education system. I believe that Indian education system made students flip their quest for knowledge to the quest for marks. A guy in who is passionate in computer science, studies mining engineering in IIT because he didn't score enough marks to get a computer science seat in that specific IIT. I don't know why these guys stick to institutions like IITs and IIMs when they have a chance to follow their passion in some other universities or colleges. If the numbers you score can decide your future, why can't you?
Have it in mind that in India, examinations test your skill of writing a exam and not your knowledge.
Do you still want your kid to study everything and learn nothing out of it.??
Do you still think that your kid need to memorize alphabets, numbers, colors etc. and attend a interview to get his seat for kindergarten in a expensive international school??
If your answer is still yes to any of these two questions, then you really deserve a imposition of watching 3 idiots movie a hundred times.
