Where is the knowledge in the scale of Marks

Where is the knowledge in the scale of Marks

 The education system itself is the standard of talent on marks

 Written by Vijay Garg  

The results of the examinations conducted under the Central Board of Secondary Education have been declared. And with this result, the expressions of hope, despair, glee and anger are also being seen all around. This feeling is being seen more among the parents than the students. Somewhere the students and parents who have passed with ninety seven percent marks are lamenting about getting three percent less marks in the result and the students are unable to make up for that shortfall. If they are burdened by the burden of education, then some unsuccessful students are living under stress, feeling it as the end result of life. In both these situations, sometimes some students reach to suicide. Similar news came this year also. 

Whereas it will be known to everyone that the definition of talent determined by marks creates mental pressure on the student. In the present time, our education system has become a system to set standards of talent on marks. If a student scores 100% marks out of ninety, ninety-nine or even hundred, then the society keeps it on the head and eyes. On the other hand, if someone lags behind in the race for marks then the society and the family of that child also kills the confidence of the child. Actually, our society has a mentality of comparative study and this mentality does not discriminate between children in any way, but has always evaluated them at comparative level. 

The most guilty in this whole system is our education system, which is still the basis of evaluation of the student from class 1 to higher education.  Judging by the test result He is not able to make the basis of evaluation of his inner talent other than that examination. This is the reason that emphasis is being laid on getting more marks than learning in the education system. We adopted a policy of compulsory passing in class 5th and then 8th to increase the literacy rate, which resulted in more student failures in class 9th and 10th and higher dropout rates. 

As a solution to this, we have taken all steps in primary and secondary education, made the curriculum shorter than changing the passing policy. Instead of strengthening the quality of education, we emphasized on quantitative changes in education and accordingly simplified the evaluation method. Have we ever wondered why policies made on education always fail? This is because these policies do not work at the grassroots level. We adopted the policy of passing up to class VIII and also increased our marks in the literacy index, but could our student become literate to pass this?  Due to the policy of the school, many times the students of class VI or VIII are not able to write their name in the schools today. Many of us will also blame the teacher for this, but we forget that the teacher is also an employee working under the same system, bound by orders. We debate on teacher-student ratio in education policy and the quality of education through it, but we have never applied it on practical ground. Government schools are the reality of this whole description, where student-education lack of ratio to infrastructure is seen. 

The Higher Education Department has also not remained untouched by the standard evaluation base of marks. In the glorification of marks, the standard has been set even in higher education. Valuable degrees of higher education were abolished without understanding the ground condition of the Indian education system. It is not unreasonable that the tradition of earning more marks and sycophancy has started increasing in the education system in our country. We have promoted this tradition and the same system has been adopted by the students and teachers formed the basis of evaluation. 

In today's time, the teacher has become a puppet of the system. If he does not do this, then he is introduced to heavy words like expulsion and transfer and the student loses the race of life many times in this system by falling behind in the race of marks. Knowledge is the art of living more than numbers, which we are forgetting, because in this capitalist era man is in the race for the basic necessities necessary to live more than living and he does not see his child lagging behind in the same race.  This is the reason why today education is at the centre of the market and we have become laborers under capital.