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>>The education system in India is geared towards producing clerks not free thinking individuals. When I was in school, I was always told by my teachers to mem
by rkwz 16y ago
>>The education system in India is geared towards producing clerks not free thinking individuals.
When I was in school, I was always told by my teachers to memorize the solution/essay rather than understand them. And whenever I tried to answer a question using my own words I always got less marks because my answer was not as per what's in the book
- rick_2047 16y agoI studied in a Kendriya Vidyalaya (Government run centralized schools), and it's been my impression that the CBSE board in geared towards problem solving rather than rote learning. Recently they introduced a new type of question in their exams, which are called High Order Thinking questions. They tend to test the knowledge and problem solving skills of an individual. But yes, most of the state boards, do put much more emphasis on rote learning
- flashgordon 16y agoReally? So did I. But without digressing, I felt that KV syllabus was based more on problem solving. Either that or I had been lucky enough to get teachers who encouraged open thinking rather than hitting the books to pointless memorising. Having said that the unit tests - monthly tests - were administered by the teacher for a particular class and what we had found was that some teachers were notorious for ensuring answers matched word-by-word to what was in the guides! But this was about 18 years ago so things may have changed (unfortunately for the worse) by now, especially to cater for a spike in demand for outsourcing.