Renowned scientist and the prime minister’s chief scientific advisor CNR Rao has lamented that today’s children are being forced to lose all interest in real education and becoming robots or circus-animals programmed to take examinations endlessly as a substitute for learning: see this news story.
As a telling sign of the times, the same paper carried, just below the above article, a half-page advertisement of one of those now-innumerable tutorials promising to fulfil every child’s ‘dream’ of becoming either a doctor or an engineer for a fat fee…
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Will you believe if I tell you that a student of mine is appearing for no less than twelve entrance tests!
Of course replacing all the entrance tests by a single, all-important one is only a minuscule fraction of the solution (it may not even prove to be that in all probability and might create problems of its own, not least of which will be logistical) : the root of the problem lies much deeper.
Sayan Datta
I'm still trying to figure out what that last line in the news story means: "Stressing on diversification in higher education keeping in view the country’s manpower requirements, he said expansion should take place in areas with the potential to create jobs."
What diversification and "expansion"? What sort of "expansion" is he talking about? And this "expansion" should take place with the intention of job-creation?
Haha about the general exams. That's going to send shivers down lots of spines. Haha.
As for the howler: I remember The Telegraph carried a feature piece(and it was more than a decade ago), and it was about gender equality and breaking through gender norms (and terribly conservative under the surface if my memory serves me right) and on the same day the front page had this ridiculous ad for some asthma medication with the picture of a girl (hardly older than maybe 7 or 8 years)who looks doleful, and the caption read something to the effect of: How am I going to get married?
Right, that's the biggest problem for little girls with asthma but they'd better break through the gender norms and study math and science "like the boys"!
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