Gone are the days when India too was in serious reckoning of comity of nations for producing crop of talented Technocrats and Scientists. Now it seems to be in shambles and in a state of sheer neglect .Why our edifice of academic scaffold seems to have shattered? Why our much touted hallowed portal of learning fail to produce quality brains? Perhaps answers to all such pressing issues can be traced in our fragile and hackneyed paradigm of learning that fails to promote plethora of creativity and innovativeness. Be it evaluation or class studies everywhere it is stereotyped pattern of learning that weighs high over envisaging mind .Learners mind is indoctrinated often with such concepts that remain obsolete one and fail to encompass any new perspectives .whoever questions the validity of such learning is branded as eccentric and unfit for higher studies .Everybody is hankering after that substandard means of learning through which only optimum marks can be scored. This heaping of marks dynamics is actually wreaking havoc on our educational system and has made it sterile one .Being a parrot is more preferred than to be a master of probing mind. Perfunctory and peripheral knowledge is preferred at the very cost of profundity and depth.Learners are encumbered with referential lore by disregarding core questions .Inflexibility of teachers strangulates enthusiasm of learners mind to flex their mental nerves. MCQ has reached its saturation level and accounts for evaluation of only stored knowledge that is bereft of conceptualization process .Preponderance of marks over mind fosters rote method of learning that is at war with subtle mind. Visualizing mind is tethered to confinement of syllabus. Mental acrobatics ’and astute critical sense is portrayed as symptom of idiosyncrasy rather than a sign of genius. Scoring high is the mere obsession that keeps on propelling youths to cram their mind with heavy dosages of knowledge. Hardly it is taken into account that scoring high has never been the hallmark of genius. Has not it been proved on copious occasions that even learners with low profile carved niche in society by their innovativeness? History is replete with numerous instances in which mediocre students even eclipsed their so called talented seniors .It is high time that academicians initiate the process of purging educational system of its impurities in order to foster research activities and real talent.
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