education curbs creativity
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speak about education from an unflattering point of view — maybe because it is destroying our fascinating, curious minds.
I don’t claim to be an expert in education. I am still a student and I speak for myself. I believe that students should have a voice in the education system today, because mainly they are the ones who are being educated. The control of education should be in the hands of students. They should be centered first and foremost.
Creativity is neither valued nor incentivized in our system, while rote learning is highly rewarded. This tempts students to memorize rather than understand concepts in a desperate attempt to produce results in the face of cut-throat competition.
A scrutiny of the competitive exams across the country will reveal the extent of the invasion of rote learning. As the focus of these exams is often speed, success in them becomes a function of being able to do mathematical calculations faster rather than being able to apply what you have learnt better. Faster arithmetical calculations only mean better familiarity (rote learning) with the decimal number system