Once a teacher in a nursery school taught her students "A for Apple, B for Ball, C for Cat, etc..." Next day, she tried to check the kids... She asked the first student "A for?" and the kid replied "Apple"... She was happy and so gave an apple as gift to that student.... Then asked the next student "B for?"... This kid too wanted an apple as gift... So it replied "B for Big Apple"....
What a great creative thinking, right? But what the teacher did? She said, it is wrong and asked the kid "Don't you remember what I taught you?".... The bud is crushed at the starting stage itself... Will this kid try to think on its own any more? It will just mug up what the teacher says, and never going to think creatively....
This is what happens in most schools of India, where we lack creative thinking and instead doing spoon feeding... That is why most of the Indian students always need some one in the back to kindle them, as they are used to that....
A change is needed in the basics of school teaching, which was once created by British rulers to create clerks to work for them... Let India shine with creative thinkers in future.
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