I could with some authority say that what I have achieved today has very little to do with what I learnt while at school.
The aim of any student is always to score marks and secure the firist postion and for this all what one needs to do to is mug what one finds in text books.
Apart from the basics of a language and a bit of maths nothing else that one is expected to learn in a class is left behind the moment the student steps out of the school.
What next?
By the time a student becomes a post graduate which is normally around the age of twenty four or twentyfive a degree is all what they will possess.
Starting a career at that age and then hoping to settle down could well be a nightmarish situation.
This situation could somewhat be contained if a child is led in the direction where their talent takes them.
All are endowed with some interest in life and that interest when boosted could lead to a situation where they could already start earning at a young age.
Organisations looking for those who have secured high marks are not doing any justice to those who have talent but not a degree.
To top it all there are organisations that even look for candidates who have got their degrees from certain well known colleges and here again justice flies out of the window.
It is time the powers that be take a serious note of the present scenario and change the way a child is groomed to face the world.
Parents too would do well if they do not make their children run after those marks as marks are only numbers with no substance in them. That is what the present method of teaching does to a child. It is the duty of the parents to understand the child’s interest regardless of how differently society might look at that child. But in it lies the child’s future.
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I agree that most of the important skills are learned early on. Afterwards, the value of learning depends heavily on where the instructor places the emphasis - be it on memorization or critical thinking and developing logic. Rote memorization will generally last only as long as a student needs to supply the information on command. It is not a skill one uses much (if at all) in the adult world.
It is time a radical change is made in the teaching system else we will only have millions of degrees that have little or no value.
I think the most important thing about education is to keep the interest and desire to learn alive.
Teachers must also teach students the value of self-learning, since they cannot take care of students for life.