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Friday, March 18, 2005

education is not about competion but knowledge

yes it is competition that has lead this world to reach the heights that it has reached,
people tried to prove that they are better than the others.
and thus went on to improve the way they think
a healthy competition is always useful to the world
since i have not witnessed to much of life and i am not studying any book that has history in its name so i can't tell you with examples.
but i suppose that it is true
but now a days this term competition is bein held responsible for the downfall of students
but really if it is good then how can we consider it to be bad.
well the reason that people have considered it to be bad is that the competition is not healthy.
students do not know what is competition
parents and teachers tell them that the higher they score the better they are... well or by some other way they get this notion (since i would never say a good teacher wud say such a thing to any student but for parents they certainly do say so:but we shud look at their point of view too.they work hard to make their wards study, they want them to achieve success, and spend a hasselfree life where they can live independently & to some extent they want their children to make them proud in society and being ahead in competition seems to be a sureshot way).so they start competition at a very small age.
they are not mature enough to think about this .
so they take competition to be that they can remember more and write correct answers in exams and get better marks.
then as they grow up what their motive is still to get more marks in exams and for this they study only the things that they wud require in exams.
they are happy to get more marks even if their knowledge is not complete.
that is ok for now but what about the future.
exams are to be taken to enter into institutes that provide professional courses .
what to do to crack these exams?
wel go about it in a systematic manner
how do i do that?
huh join coaching classes.
what do these coaching classes do?
oh nothing basically .... they just give u some basic things on which the exam is based and then they give u question papers to solve that will help u to get accustomed to the questions asked ....
they will give u techniques to solve the questions.
but y do v have uto use such techniques ... well even those people who teach can't answer that....
this is not develpoment of brain!!!!!!
this is just proving that practice makes man perfect.!!!!
but perfect in what ????
huh i know i am cynical!!!!!
now when students get into the institutes then they are not in the condition to attain proper knowledge , thus the institutes teach them in a manner that they have studied till now,
now the teachers say that they must understand what they are to study
they now try to make the students understand the practicality of their subject but mostly in vain,,,...
they are taught some general stuff there which is basically dependent on common sense......
but the students think that they are learning a lot....
and studies go on in this way.....................
then they get placement in good firms .....
now this is the place where they really get to learn ...
this place is not about competition for beginners
so they all know that they have to learn the same stuff
and they know they can't compete bcoz they are clueless about the stuff they are being taught....
thus this is where they learn about their trade
had their not been such unhealthy competition earlier then the institutes wud have taught what they are learning in the firm
this is the way things go

well then what about healthy competition
now healthy competition is when people stop being childish and begins to grow their knowledge
yes people come togeather and start exchanging views about the things that they learn.
they share their knowledge and try to explore this world through their subjects
(infact it was this scenario in the earlier centuries that lead to the emergence of new subjects)
this is how healthy competition leads to growth of knowledge

i too pity for myself to have fallen fallen into this pit.
else i wud have had a better knowledge of how to express my thoughts in words and thus this post wud have been more clear and interesting to read and i cud have included what ever i wish to tell ya.

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