Dear Colleagues,
If I may add something to this debate…
No, Percentages are not "everything" but that is not to say they are nothing. It is how the percentages are calculated is what is the problem with modern education.
We are running factories of bodies these days who can run a company, not creating educated individuals. Not 10% of people who come out of these factories know how to apply. Their basics remain poor. Their attitude remains that of an illiterate person or should I say an uneducated person. And we crush out all sense of logic and creativity through the end of year rote learning system.
Let me clarify that point further:
1. Students need to be judged on how much they can apply what they study, rather than how much they can memorize (I had a classmate who topped even when he burnt cotton to sterilize it – and no this is not an exaggeration – this was during final board practical exam, he topped because he wrote a lot of theory in his practical paper, and only 10% weightage was given to his actual results, which were wrong anywy) – this was way back in 2007.
2. Let us mark students on projects, on applied questions, on difficulty of problems that they can solve, but here we see that the last 15 marks of maths that used be the applied part of the maths paper has been removed from 10th standard papers completely! You can't create a thinking individual if you don't compel him to think.
3. Theory needs to be memorized, but what if a student only memorizes – only for the sake of the exam and is blank a few months hence, someone who wants to study humanities but doesn't "understand history" – he has only memorized it – will remain just a recorder – not a historian. Someone who doesn't understand either science or geography and climates but wants to be a geologist – that's a fool's errand. Our engineers can write but can't apply basic physics taught in schools – what use are their percentages there? And that remains the same when they come out in the real world to work – thus the problem of misfit, unemployable graduates and post graduates.
4. The system needs a rework not only in terms of marking, but the actual learning experience – where even the teachers need to get out of the text book mind-set and get set in the applied mind-set.
Let the student score a 100% but let him earn it through use of all his intellectual capabilities not only his memory – is what I am saying; then the percentages will have some real value. As to the parents – that's never gonna change no matter what the pattern – humans like to show-off and compete, its basic human nature and they will.. we as teachers need to become teachers and not just preachers in the classroom and start creating Educated individuals not literate machines. (I would not like to get into the educated vs literate debate as that could end up hurting sentiments)
Thanks and Warm Regards,
Nimish Deshpande
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Subject: [MTC Global] Obsession towards percentages
Dear Prof Dr. Bholanath Sir,
First of all I want to congratulate you for starting a good discussion. And remind you I have to thank whole heartedly as, you give me lot of information which is very essential for me.
The existing system cannot be questioned because for the following reasons:
1. Marks are one of the parameters for assessing the intelligence of an individual. So marks are always important.
2. People who criticize the existing system can they give any alternative for the existing ones. I don't think they can give. Because sitting on a safe side and criticizing is an easy task in the world now a days.
3. If percentages are not there how will you assess an individual? Wont it become vague?
4. Parents will be craving for good percentages because there kith and kin can join in good companies/or government as employees. Because becoming entrepreneur is not every body's cup of tea. You have mentioned some names for how much population they are there that is they might be 1: 1 crore population. So dreaming of an own enterprise is a difficult one as risk is more in that field.
5. So I think criticizing the existing system is wrong!
If I have hurt some one with my harsh language I am extremely sorry. But criticizing just for criticizing is wrong that is what my idea is all about!
thanks and regards,
amicably,
Vijaya Chandran
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