http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20090625/804/tnl-sibal-plans-to-scrap-traumatic-class.html
Dont know whether it is for good or for bad!!!
Reason for having such a big step is to reduce the pressure amongst parents and the students. Another reason reflected is about the freedom of knowledge.
I think it gets deeper than that. Most of the societies have been a result oriented society. In the vedas we talk about Moksha, that is also a result to achieve by the saints and the priests and other creatures. Invaders and rulers had their own objectives. Finally, in the present times, we are more critical about our sucesses, because we tend to compare ourselves with the result acheived by others.
So is education system. At the end of the day, every parent wants their kid to have a good job with a good salary and a good financial status. These days it has been focused on getting into the financial sector. SO the goal / result has been defined even before the kid is in nappies. Parents start expecting and training the kid for the result / Goal. So if the kid does not get good marks in Class X, he is unable to get into good school and then good univ and then into good company. I dont want to put any arguements against this but want to go back to the basics.. freedom to knowledge.
- Life is short and at the age of 16, most of us dont know what to do and what do they want to become. So he/she persues what his/her parents advise him to do. These advices are most of the times based on the present market and job situation. So it becomes a restricted knowledge.
- Next thing which comes is the peer pressure, you might not be learning anything from your courses but your peers are scoring better marks.. so you tend to read for exams without learning much... and this leads to the next question... Is that freedom to education? I would say it is forced education!!! So till the time you graduate (mostly by the age of 21) you dont have any freedom to knowledge!!!
- Where is the freedom of knowledge for the kids aged 15 / 16 who are taking the 10th board exams? Where does it stand???
I think the freedom of knowledge is obtained in the hobbies and the extra-curricular activities. Here, the result / goal is not defined when you start. the motivation develops and then you are able to define the goals if you persist with them and instead of competing you collaborate. Collaboration to excell is more fun than compete to defeat. It changes the attitude and then you gain knowledge by sharing and with more freedom than forced or restricted!!!!
Every sucessful person has to face the first critical challange of competition. Although, we face challanges in every exam in the class but this gives you a platform to compete with a larger crowd and the unknown!!!
I might be wrong in the way I think but just a thought....
