March 25, 2005

Studies???????

I was reading newspaper which had this article about exams and its tensions. It really angered me so much about the way our eductaion system works.How can it judge that one student is good and the other is not?

The educations system is so detrimental that parents start pressurizing their children to keep doing better, pushing themselves till they create zombies outta them.

Does this mean that a child who is probably interested in creative arts, or geography, or history is no good? Why is it that the teachers dont look beyond these marks which at best bring out the mugging capacity of children?

No wonder so many suicides amongst teenagers and school goers.... When there is so much pressure to achieve..the extent to which parents go is so bloody infuriating....
They cut of the tv access, no talking to friends....STUDYING STUDYING AND MORE STUDYING......

The number of parents who are getting councelled because of their childrens' exams are on the rise too.... A mother hanged herself as her son did not get the required percentage.... So many teenagers develop haedaches, forgetfulness before exams..... This tension gets added on especially if there is another achiever in the family. Such is the case in mine too.

There is a cousin who has proved her worth and in the same age group comes my sister and another cousin.... I see the grilling session they are in for every time there are exams around the corner.... I dont understand why compare when each person is unique... Why are studies the bar of success.....

This argument can go on and on...until our education system does not improve there' s no hope for probable future painters, historians etc... as they will be stuck in the so called rote system

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi,
i did not know that the blogger was our comm'n trace for the time being....neway you sound really frustrated with whats happening ariound you as far as studies are concerned. take things in the +ve phase... nothing gonna work out if you get too touchy or concerned..
all the best
waiting 4 the mail..
prabhash

Anonymous said...

and somebody says, i dont frequent my blogs quite often.... march 25th is when you last did??????
come on
what pain would it cause....key life...
prabhash

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Thanks for dropping by!

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Pravin said...

yeah, education system kind of sucks. the central board has a better all-rounder system than the state boards though.

i dunno know about the southern states, but in maharashtra, if you can memorize, you can stand first :|

Anonymous said...

Your point is right Sowmya.Unfortunately, our country is overpopulated leading to more competition and hence the stress.Agree that this is not the right way of learing, a lot of creative thinking is lost when there is no independence. Even all round personality development suffers big time, thanks to focus on academics. Guess, the person who can see this point and balance his/her life with the right mix of extra curricular activities and academics will go a long way.

Just go at your own pace and don't take in too much pressure. Chill out once in a while and take it easy !

Some talk this at 2:35 AM my time !!

Cheers,
- P

Pravin said...

I finished my bachelor's in computer science and was doing research. That ends this month. Starting May, I will be working. Sure, keep in touch :). My email's pravinp [at] gmail [dot] com