Today's newspaper article on the government's decision to relax the rule of reducing marks in the CBSE board exams for spelling mistakes was indeed thought provoking.Just check out the article on
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/10/19/stories/2005101900540100.htm
What is the big idea behind this... Just to get students across the board exam hurdle, if the government can relax on this spelling rule in english, why not relax the rule about calculation mistakes in Mathematics, physics or chemistry?
The 3 main R's of education are reading writing and arithmetic... If we cannot even learn those basics right, that we make mistakes at the board exam level, what is the use of 10 years of education?
Already at the professional courses level, we have incompetent candidates gaining entry into engineering and medical fields by paying huge sums of money as "capitation fees". If even at the school level the rules are relaxed, where is the quality of educaion going?
There are high level spelling contests in Great Britain where children as young as 13 and 14 years speel really difficult words and become stars. Are Indian children so dumb that they cant spell simple words in science , history and geography properly???
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
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