On Wednesday 06 Oct 2010 4:03:09 am Thaths wrote: > And the high school CBSE textbooks are > pretty damn good. >
Correct, with the folowing caveats 1) The school child intends to do medicine or engineering 2) The school itself is convinced that teaching a child enough to perfrom well in his CBSE exam is enough and that survival of the school is not denedent on joining the schools rat race to teach more than what is required by the curriculum to ensure "success in IIT entrance exams" On another note, I find that there are two occasions in one's life when one comes across the usefullness or other wise of the school education sysem in India. The first is one's personal experience with the system. he second is whn you have to put your child or children through the system. My judgement after having been through both: It has becoem much worse. One's personal experiences with school have no conneection with what children are being put through now. Schools have not yet opened up to the fact that there is a world outside of medicine and engineering. shiv
