One cannot reason with a 1st grader who has failed his english dictation because there still isn't a logic as to why the word 'ball' is not spelled B-O-L-L.You could convince a first grader to believe that he or she is too young to understand the funda, but trust me at about 24,even after having crowned yourself with that graduation hat,you'd still be wondering why its not B-O-L-L.
It ain't surprising as to why folks tend to be gravitated to Americanism.They are quite humble,at least when it comes to spellings.
If not for their bread,the French would've been persecuted for the hardships they've given the english speaking community.The British are obstinate about not simplifying things.
The system of schooling here in india (apparently inspired by the british one )is like parrot astrology-the parrot has no clue of what its doing and the astrologer has no clue of what he's saying.
Here,a kid has to turn 21 to drink,smoke and the worst of all marry.However,at the age of 15 when he hasn't even had his molars pop up is when he has to decide what he wants to be 15 years later down in his life.Not that the molars would make much of a difference but it must be for some reason that they call it wisdom tooth in school.
An 8th grade kid here can build a complete sentence without any spelling mistakes ,but be assured that the grammar is not a tad bit right!
It is in popular trend to send kids to english medium schools headed by the Central Board as against the state run schools that employ the regional language as the medium of instruction.The irony of the matter is,the people who go to these prestigious CB schools neither know english nor the regional language properly. There are kids who can spell Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis without having to google it like most of us,but whats the point if he or she cannot read the time off a simple wall clock.
That twerp who crafted the current form of schooling in India needs some good spanking and has to be put through school once again in some country where education is aimed at creating a niche for intellectual thinking and growth rather than making kids solve Pythagorus theorem before they aren't even old enough to have stopped peeing in their pants.For all you know,Pythagorus himself hadn't used the theory for any purpose.
Language and math are the subjects of utmost importance.You are never asked to write or speak your thoughts in school.All you end up writing is what some blooming idiot thought of whatever poem he had written some million years ago when the only source of entertainment probably was writing .Do they teach you to handle arithmetic well?Oh boy!you've gotta spend time on adding , subtracting,multiplying and dividing when you have people who've wasted the whole of their lives inventing something called a calculator!Its not the ability to analyze a problem that you are graded for,but breaking your head over something that a machine can do a thousand times faster than you and laugh at you while you are at it!
Those theories that you've probably spent sleepless nights to mug up couldn't entirely be useless.They could come into play sometime or the other,at least when you have to teach kids of your own.The question is whether you'd recall that bunch of X's and Y's that are to be added onto some other value guarded inside brackets that are again of two or three types when you cannot remember the name of your crush in high school!
Today,when you can ask that lady enslaved into your iPhone to find an answer to anything including whether the world would end by 2012 and expect a logical answer,one really can't see how a textbook with illustrations as old as that of the pictographs by men of the neolithic period in Mesopotamia can help kids decipher as complex a concept as an engine.You really cannot do a thing about the system that printed and glued into high school textbooks Einsteins' speech criticizing the system of education prevalent .If the man was alive,he certainly would've committed suicide for this reason alone!
However,I cannot say i haven't learnt anything at all in school.If it wasn't for 14 years of schooling,i wouldn't have learnt 5 different methods of knotting a tie.But again,my field of work doesn't require a tie to be worn.
Cheers!
The Chauvinist!
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