I am reading this fantastic book ..."Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman_Adventures_of_a_Curious_Character" by Richard P. Feynman. I learnt that while we were busy memorizing our books and taking exams, we missed out on all the learning and all the fun. Memorizing killed our curiosity and tendencies to explore the wonder, that is everything around us.
a simple e.g.
our textbooks would have told us "Triboluminescence" is the phenomenon when certain crystals emit light when crushed. How many of us would have really understood that? though 90% of us would have memorized the definition. Would we be able to associate the above to taking a lump of sugar, crushing it in the dark to see a bluish flash ??
More importantly would we have been curious and excited to go crush sugar in a dark room and find it out for our selves?
ur blogs makes me go down memory lane, on our passionate discourses on the indian edu system.
ReplyDeleteanyone who survies it here can make do anywhere else in the world :)