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  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    12·
    13 hours ago

    In India something that is common is kids being enrolled in sort of a dummy school where they don’t have to worry about attendance. Kids have to write national standardised exams in school in grade 12th. But the curriculum is much much easier from that of the entrance exams that they need to write to get into engineering or medical schools. Moreover, the score in the school exams is inconsequential as long as you get above something like 60% because the entrance test score is the only thing that is looked at for entry in colleges. So children are ground to dust by only what is called “cram school” here rather than by also the school.

    Not saying this is ideal or even good. In fact it is terrible. But children coming back from learning at 10pm only to have to do homework is just straight up inhumane. It sounds like the mark of a deeply ill society.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      10·
      10 hours ago

      The whole idea of turning childhood into a constant grind seems very misguided to me. I mean if the goal is to break people then it’s definitely achieving it. However, it’s definitely not something that should be happening in a healthy society. Also, with mass automation on the horizon, the whole nature of education really needs to be rethought. Simply memorizing facts is no longer a useful skill, it’s trivial to look up any information at this point. What’s really useful is the ability to analyze information, to make connections between ideas, and to come up with novel interpretations. It’s creative thinking and imagination that’s going to be valuable.

      • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        7·
        8 hours ago

        Overall I agree. Mass abusing children over the prospect of being able to make a respectable livelihood is not good. Neither in the short term nor the long term. These kind of systems are designed to cover up for the fact that there is a massive shortage in either good educational institutions or jobs or most often both. The burden and responsibility of the failure that follows is pushed onto the individual. “Maybe if you had studied you would have been one of the 0.1% of the applicants who were able to get into a good college.” Literally everyone I know is virulently hateful against dalits (among others) because people from minority groups can get into colleges with lower scores than someone who is for eg. an upper caste hindu due to affirmative action. Of course no one wonders (for example) why a country like India, an inevitable superpower any day now, which brain drains doctors to western countries has one doctor for every 850 people here (this includes quackery like ayurveda and half the qualified doctors should not be allowed near people). These kinds of systems breed hatred and misanthropy.