We killed one more day of the child's life...

We killed one more day of the child's life...

teaching algeraic formula, areas and permimeters, postulates, theorems and their corollaries, insisting on proving something on the right hand side is equal to something else on the left hand side

We killed one more day of the child's life...

teaching chemical formula of water, phyllotaxy of leaves, elements in the periodic table, names of the smallest bone and the largest muscle.

We killed one more day of the child's life...

teaching the name of the Austrian prince whose assassination triggered World War - I, the year the Mauryan Empire was established, Earth's tilt as the reason for seasons to occur , the name of the grasslands in Australia or Africa

We killed one more day of a child's life...

teaching the reason for adding P in Psychology, teaching that a subject should agree a verb, teaching the parts and figures of speech, rules of language, punctuations, poetic devices

We killed one more day of a child's life...

teaching which is the capital city of Tanzania, the name of the first person sent to space, the currency of Vietnam, the inventor of the fountain pen, the first president of the US, height of the Mount Everest

What a waste of time!

We didn't care if the child was interested. We didn't think if the child will ever use any of them in the future. We didn't test if the child fits them or they fit the child. We brutally assumed our rights and forcibly took the child's precious hours, days and years stuffing its brain with something that it may never use in its life time.

What a waste of time!

We defend, "Who knows! Some of these children may become mathematicians, scientists, poets! They need to learn all these!"

Well, if you know one goose has a golden egg in it's stomach, do you slit open the stomachs of all the geese? You may call this intelligence, I call this cruelty! We have completely lost sensibility in judging and sensing children's interests. We have taken them for granted.

What a neurotic education system we have created! We teach science without developing scientific thinking. We teach civics without creating civic sense. People who have created history are those who have not studied history in schools. No successful businessman knows Pythogorus theorem. No inspiring thinker or speaker has become so because of the grammar rules or literarary rules he was taught in schools.

No curriculum was ever designed to prevent the top ranking students from falling into depression or ending lives just for encountering a temperory failure. No school includes syllabus to teach that 'bhasma-burkha-baptism' are just the stupid symbols and procedures, but humans wearing or undergoing them are all the same. Every test in schools says 'Answer the questions', we failed to create a learning system that says, 'Question the answers'.

We speak about Artificial Intelligence! But can our education system stop preserving natural stupidity?

Lastly, I remember the words of Mark Twain:

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”