Saturday 18 June 2011

growing up

Most people who are 40 or older, would probably recall the age 13-20 -- give or take few years-- as the time they did most introspection and thinking.
That is the age when we have just figured out what life is about or at least thought we did. The age of growing up. During this time, we become who we are essentially going to be for all our lives, though further refinements do occur.
But if those years are spent inside dingy classrooms all day, and mugging all evening, this growing up is never going to occur. We will never know who we are.
So getting 100% in the XII is going to cost the child his self.
The ridiculous cutoffs in SRCC is a symbol of what is wrong with our school education.

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