Exam phobia does not exist in vain. It is a fear of the ultimate kind and quite worth the trouble it evokes for we may never know what terrors the next examination would hurl upon us.
The purpose of education should be to help us become productive individuals and help us understand and dwell in our surroundings better. But the hype surrounding examination and the entire procedure itself is designed in such a way as to disconnect us from our environment. Exams just do not remain a test of knowledge but become a whole lot of trouble for children as well as their families. Very often we see children forgoing everything for the sake of a few hard-earned marks on their report card. They miss out on the real flavors of life in the pursuit of attaining something that promises them a good life in the future and creates a disillusion that their marks reflect their personality and intelligence level. More often than not they end up having little personality development and become people with a whole lot of knowledge but little virtue of its utilization.
The examination schedules cut across festivities leaving no room for the charm of the festival to remain. Children dreading their examinations for the fear of marks, now have another thing to add to their misery. The system hardly desires us to be humans. We are being trained to become robots on every step of this educational ladder. The mechanical questions and straightforward answers require little creativity and genius, and on top of that, show little consideration towards the joys of life. Why should something that is meant to make our lives better be isolated from real life itself?
The purpose of education should be to help us become productive individuals and help us understand and dwell in our surroundings better. But the hype surrounding examination and the entire procedure itself is designed in such a way as to disconnect us from our environment. Exams just do not remain a test of knowledge but become a whole lot of trouble for children as well as their families. Very often we see children forgoing everything for the sake of a few hard-earned marks on their report card. They miss out on the real flavors of life in the pursuit of attaining something that promises them a good life in the future and creates a disillusion that their marks reflect their personality and intelligence level. More often than not they end up having little personality development and become people with a whole lot of knowledge but little virtue of its utilization.
The examination schedules cut across festivities leaving no room for the charm of the festival to remain. Children dreading their examinations for the fear of marks, now have another thing to add to their misery. The system hardly desires us to be humans. We are being trained to become robots on every step of this educational ladder. The mechanical questions and straightforward answers require little creativity and genius, and on top of that, show little consideration towards the joys of life. Why should something that is meant to make our lives better be isolated from real life itself?
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