No child should need to risk their lives to get educated.
In the name of EDUCATION, Can we stop TORTURING little kids, please? Here's some bitter truth about the education we give and why our kids NEED NOT RISK their lives for that.
It's been beyond painful to see my 9-year-old nephew (he turned 9 on 21st June and I told him this article will be his birthday gift) sit in front of the laptop for hours during the Lockdown. Why this torture? So that schools can get the fees on time?
Schools and colleges do require funds to run, I realize. So, reduce costs and request parents to pay part fees this year or the government to step in and support. But why make little children go through this pathetic torture??
In any case, our education system and schooling have failed us miserably. Instead of doing fakery like they did with me for 13 years of my school life, it's really time to change our education system. And if you can't; Then at least during these extremely tough times around the globe, where many leading universities and schools and even countries have already announced that there won't be any physical classes this year - please forget about the SHAMEFUL GREEDY idea of opening up of schools and colleges. Also, forget about pushing little kids to study for 4-5 hours in front of LAPTOPS.
There are too many parents who worked hard for years to limit screen time for their children, not so that GREEDY schools in the name of education make them go through this torture.
In any case, all the worthwhile things they teach in terms of academics throughout one's school life could be taught in about 90 min a day * 200 days a year * ten years. That's a crazy 3000 hours!!!
In 1000 hours topmost universities finish post-graduation programs!! That's where real education should happen and happens. That's where we need to give 1000 to 3000 hours to make the researchers, carpenters, artists, musicians, scientists, economists, historians, masons, farmers, electricians, social workers etc. That's education.
I can't even imagine taking 3000 hours to teach a couple of languages (which is more or less learnt at home), basic maths till compound interest, basics of science, arts and commerce... And to imagine schools actually take 5hours* 200 days* 13 years = 13,000 hours plus tuitions and homework another say 7000 hours out of childhood, to KEEP YOU LITERALLY UNEDUCATED! What a shame.
In fact all that you learn in your entire childhood can be taught @1 hour a day, 200 days a year * five years ie 1000 hours. Post that all you are taught till class 12th can be taught in one hour a week in another five years ie 250 hours. That's 1250 hours in total. Make it 3000 as the above calculations. Fine. But let children breathe. Let them follow their passions. Grow up and become whatever "THEY WANT" to become. Let them become HAPPY. GOOD. HUMANE.
What a shame it is that after so much teaching, there's hardly one teacher per school who thinks that his responsibility lies beyond the course, and is about making good happy human being and changing lives. Or spend at least 5 min in every class teaching life lessons that are important, then teaching the worthless course.
And the most imp teacher in schools who is responsible for a good two hour class in the entire 13 to 17 years of the education system - the biology teacher - who is supposed to explain evolution, is generally a dumb religious buffoon. So somehow he teaches the donkey brained chimps to human beings story without any conviction. Not how humans evolved out of fish over the last 1 billion years, and story of evolution from a unicellular organism to multicellular one in the first 3 billion years of the existence of the earth.
So even those key two hours of learning a school fail to impart. So go to any school WhatsApp group of 50-year-olds and take a test on this, and you will see 95 per cent of them would be completely vague. And max says we evolved out of chimps like dumb fools.
And after giving the test like fools ask but then how do chimps still exist if they converted into humans? So they end up supporting the foolish guys who say we didn't evolve out of chimps rather 10k years back we invented head surgery. Our schools have created generations of fools and religious bigots.
That's the crappy truth of our teachers and schools. From where I learnt nothing at all in life and most likely most of your children are learning nothing, barring rudimentary few hours worth basic stuff.
And what's the debate about board exams. In any case there should be no judgement of students till class 9th of any sorts. And all sorts of standardized exams should be banned. To make children score more we don't teach them poetry, we don't let them read enough books or inculcate that habit, we don't let them spend time following art and music and the worst of crimes we don't let them play to their complete heart's desire.
In Finland, schools are just 4 hours a day including lunchtime, endless playtime and without any homework or exams till the age of 16. No one is ranked, given marks, compared ever. And school starts at the age of 7 not a criminal age of 4. Needless to say, schools are neighbourhood schools and publicly funded with 33% of your daily nutrition requirement coming through free food in schools. And children enjoy their childhood. And yet they are right at the top of all education parameters in the world.
By having our current system of education, we make teachers the villains. No one grows up hero-worshipping teachers. Teachers are the villains and at this point of time during the pandemic the most exploited lot, in addition. Having to do a crazy amount of work with huge pay cuts.
The government must immediately step in and stop this torture, scheming, forcing and exploitation. At least during the pandemic. There should be no more than 1 hour of online classes for children till the age of 13 and about 90 min for those above 13. Let them read good books instead. Give assignments on book reading if at all you want educated kids.
The government must help give back childhood to our children.
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