Education - Should it create Jack of all or master of one?
It was curious to see the recent posts in newspapers after the CBSE declared its results as per the new system of grades and CGPA. While it did reduce the suicides numbers which are reported every year after the results(atleast there weren't many which got reported in media) and hence fulfilled one avowed objective of our honourable education minister, it did however threw some very interesting observations. The first was that a student can get low marks and still get higher grades. There were students who scored consistently average marks in all subjects scoring better grades than students who were scoring very high marks in one subjects and average or may be less than average in other subjects. While the student who is an average student and not expecting to be a top ranker will feel satisfied and elated on being clubbed with top rankers, a top ranker student would not feel happy if clubbed with below par student. Such high potential students may loose motivation to pursue exce...