It was a nice read. Having gone through the experience first hand(engineer from India), the situation is true and in dire need of change. Growing up, I always h

It was a nice read. Having gone through the experience first hand(engineer from India), the situation is true and in dire need of change. Growing up, I always hated the idea of incentivising the ability to memorise something versus actually understanding how something works or why. And as the article says I was on the minority and left out of the race. To my great surprise, when I landed in the US to do my masters degree, there was no need to memorise most stuff. Heck you can even bring your book to the exams. The exams tested one’s ability to _apply_ what they should’ve learnt in the course. It felt so great. Then came the experience of watching schools in Denmark. The kids are taught to be independent right from kindergarten and never suppressed by saying “you should not do this because I say so”, instead being told - if you do this, this will happen and it will hurt/cause pain/make _ sad etc. Kids are treated as mini adults whose thoughts and opinions are counted. This never occurred in my childhood. Their school is more fun than the toil that I experienced going to school in India(sitting in a bench being pushed to take notes of all the facts thrown at me with the fear of being able to cough it up during a test). Kids in Danish school system probably does not hear about all the things possible in a field, but learn the basic principles practically which is great. The exams seemed to be more a combination of a written test and an “oral test” that is more qualitative than quantitative approach to evaluating someone. I wish the Indian education system learns from other approaches and move away from creating rat races.