25/02/2016
Dear Readers
This is the knowledge society where the only valuable thing is knowledge. If you have knowledge you have everything, or you will become competent enough to get everything. So, the very aim of should be knowledge acquisition. When the students are taught to cram any text and repeat the same in exams with the sole purpose of qualifying that exam, the resultant is not knowledge but some crammed up facts and texts which the child tends to forget because he never tried to understand the concepts and find its relevance and application in his/her own life. Instead children should be taught by parents and teachers, to understand the real meaning of concepts. This understanding will not only be everlasting, it will also lead the child on the path of knowledge generation, which is the most important pursuit of the knowledge industry to get success. Success should not be defined by marks rather it should be defined by knowledge of the child. But in today’s competitive world, the marks of the child are taken as the proof of his/her intelligence. This creates an undue pressure on the child to run after marks, whether through cramming or rote memorization. Learning is equated with the performance of the child in the exams and this fosters the culture of producing the texts written in the ‘prescribed’ textbooks, with or without it’s understanding. This culture is making the children see themselves as the consumers of knowledge which over time curb their ability to think out of the box and become the producers of knowledge, which is of utmost importance in the knowledge society. So, if we want our children to be successful and knowledgeable at the same time, we should encourage them to have a quest for knowledge instead of forcing just upon securing high marks in examination.
