While walking down the
Two years of hard work and students who have scored 90% will get into a good college but what about those who just fell short of it by few per cent? How bad is 80%? Bad because people console you by saying “80% is good enough for class XII” and irritating because you will go mad rushing from college to college checking your name in the cut off lists. You feel awful that “I can’t get through country’s best college just because I feel short by few %” Is it a crime you have committed by scoring 80%? Why is it that we study only for marks? The person who has got 80 is unhappy because he didn’t get a 85, one with 85 is upset of not entering the elite 90 club and the most shocking at times you wonder (what is he or she saying) “I got a 97…how is it possible…maine toh pura paper kiya tha…I expected a 100 yaar”.
Our dreams are only made of marks. Sometimes I wonder what all or what not we have studied in our school life? After all we have studied about Akbar, European colonialism and magnetism and periodic table all together till class 10. And when you reach class 11 where you are reminded in class “beta aapne science li hain, baaki sab chod do toh behtar hoga” (baaki sab includes everything other than studying). Your parents remind you that you are supposed to crack IIT and do your family proud. And students in arts and commerce are reminded about the cut-offs that the DU colleges closed their admissions in last session. And you in your classes take your pen completely apart and put it back together when bored.
Why is it that if you fall short of 5 marks of scoring 100 you are rejected by the country’s best college? By any chance if you had not known a 5 mark question in your board paper, does that make you less intelligent than one’s who knew it? Lack of seats in universities, reservations and peer pressure all are responsible for student life going waste. No wonder this peer pressure leads to students committing suicides and the increase in number of counselors in
I really wish students had enjoyed studying for themselves and not for their parents, relatives and neighbors. Wish that every career and stream is granted equal respect. Wish people start realizing there’s life beyond being a doctor and engineer. It is high time that people realize education is way beyond marks on your report card. We need “An education which makes a child sad when the last bell is rung at the end of the day in the school”...........
d last line was so so true.... i'm touched by that, really.. u know i wudnt hv said dis if dis wudnt hv bin.
ReplyDeletebut more dan parents n ppl realising d world beyond marks, i think d education system nids 2 becum more practical...more related 2 d jobs dey offer..n dr is a dire need 4 opening proffessional trainig in lines other dan arts, science n commerce.
also, most of d tyms, u r nt able 2 carry on ur interests to keep up wid d education bit.. drz 1 more thng i wud lyk 2 share.. i hv noticed dis thng during my education, i dnt knw wethr u'll agree wid me or not, bt, d ppl hu top d charts in marks, r actually vry low ranking wen it cums 2 thngs other dan deir studies.. in my 18 yr lyf, i've seen only 1 person hu has balanced both interest n education perfectly. d name is shaumik daityari, he ws my classmate n nw he's an IITian.
ReplyDeleteHmm...thought provoking. So have u figured out what are you going to do?
ReplyDeletewow.....your writing iz v gud....d article haz such a gud flow....wish i can write lyk dat....n d last line iz v v beautiful
ReplyDelete@sneha- its all about doing *smart work*!
ReplyDeleteSalams...
ReplyDeleteMs Angana firstly have my whole-hearted felicitations for compiling such a beautiful and heedful message in a very delightful piece.
Well we are still following the same educational system that was implemented by the British in India only to foster their 3rd grade employees, unfortunately.
you know what the philosophy is slavery.
"They spit and we chew it down."
Anyways I found you as a good wordsmith...
keep writing for the cause.
Regards...
Abdul Wajid
http://www.wajidthefinder.blogspot.com/