Score Carding... again

At every stage in life, we pocket a different learning and here I really mean that mental note we make, the anecdote we'd wish to tell our children and their children. Wow!!! inked testiminials of wisdom for posterity!

So in a spurt of iconic wisdom and higher level of intelligence I chose to quit my job as a journalist and follow the pursuit of happiness! (whatever that means). I travelled, read and found out courses that would help me enhance my skills (yeah I do embody a few skills, specially the kinds that make me a highly curious but confused individual).

Somehow I zeroed in on a course that majority of the population in the country would crave to do (at least their dear parents would want them to.). So yeah I decided on doing an MBA (so much for the research.) Now this is where the action begins, here I am in this institution with all my heart and might and an earnest intention to LEARN and how?

I learnt about accounts, finance, debit, credit, GDP, public speaking et al. But in case you thought this was the epicenter of things, u may be in for well, a very predictable but nevertheless surprise! I learnt that the only faint fossil of learning was turning out to be a string of grades and marks.

Really it was all and nothing more than marks. So was I learning much or anything that I hadn’t before? At 29, was I not just revising lessons my teachers gave me on getting a high score? Was I not simply getting a high intensity skill on fetching scores and beating the other rat in the race?

Gazing haplessly, at my peers’ enthusiasm after taking their exam, their flabbergasting responses to all correct answers and their euphoria of relative success. I couldn’t relate to any of this, or may be I didn’t want to. For this is not why I stepped in to the classroom, or may be I was suffering from another theoretical dilemma called ‘Idealism’.

Irony is this- - I didn’t see an iota of this excitement in them after attending a single lecture. I didn’t see any of this excitement after learning any of the earlier mentioned traits! As for me, I continued to grope in the bright light of super intellectuals and economists.

And this is in the least a hangover of “5 Point someone or 3 Idiots”. It’s my story, my mental note, my agony that after slogging my butt for 17 years of schooling, graduating, post graduating , I chose to re postgraduate in the same thing….SCORE CARD!!!

But I am an adamant, obtuse case, so I refuse to learn it, accept it or even acknowledge it. And though I like to stay at bay from political comments, I'd want to second Kapil Sibal’s concerns and efforts on eradicating class ten exams.

Coming back to the mental note…would I want to tell my children and theirs that I loved studying but somehow lost it to a fight for better scores! Are we promoting education here or nurturing a breed of numerically frenzied ideas? So much for having a taste for education!!!!