Monday, June 28, 2004

Is the education minister listening?

3 commit suicide over SSC results
Three students committed suicide within three days of the SSC results. SnehalDhuri (18) hung herself at her Vikhroli home because she was forced to forego her seat at K J Somaiya College due to a technicality. The college wanted her school-leaving certificate by 1 p.m.While.....
I couldn't read any further...Most of the time i feel that our education system is so bizzare,the entire fate of the students depend on three hours at the end of the year..three hours that nullify all the 8760 hours of hard work.Why fate..i can say lives of students is decided on how we perform in those three hours..And who decides how much do we get?..A handful of people who value our answer papers..Some troglodytes who dont even bother to read what you want to convey..the people who count the number of supplements you attach and not the number of thoughts that your answers carry..
Such prehistoric is our great education system..And now when i speak to people who are a products of this redundant system..i wonder if they were really intelligent or plain lucky???

2 comments:

VM said...

Hey, good to see you back in action !

Totally agree with you on the dilemmas of todays schoolgoers. I also feel that we are all so insecure about our future, that there is a fierce competition to achieve the best possible qualifications, after which, surprisingly enough, we expect to sit on an easy job and eat money all our lives. Both of these things are killing people, firstly the fierce competition,peer pressure, parents expectations lead people to suicide and whatnot. Secondly, people who are capable, end up not contributing their worth back to help.
Heard of "Vardan Kabra"? I'm proud to share my name with him, search google and you'll know what he's upto.

Vardan

Dipika said...

One of my grudges against the system:
They dissect any subject so unmercilessly that they manage to kill any interest a student might have had in it.
One of their classic methods: Asking (directly or indirectly) their students to learn every proper noun or date in every chapter of the prescribed (read: equally unimaginative) book.