It was one of those boring days in class, when I was too idle to recognize what the teacher was saying. There I was, in the second bench (quite unfortunately) trying hard to keep my eyes open. I was doing well and suddenly, my teacher’s voice caught my attention. He pointed out a mistake in the text book of Tamil Nadu Text Book Corporation, (I thought experts wrote those books, how terribly wrong I was!) and told us to “follow the text book” because “the text book is very important for 12 STD”.
I’ve never heard of such absurdity. What kind of system encourages the students to follow a wrong guide? Definitely not the great kind.
I don’t know which is worse, having teachers knowledgeable enough to identify mistakes in the text books or having completely ignorant people who call themselves teachers.
I am still mystified as to why I didn’t have the guts to stand and question my teacher regarding this, but it was later that I realized that teachers preach us on what they were taught. They are just instruments who encourage false teachings just for the sake of numbers.
I recently read Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone. I was happy to see that Ryan opposed the system but I still couldn’t believe that he had to get into IIT to realize its uselessness! It took me less than a month to realize that the system is nothing less than crap!
The Chaos Within 