Today I visited one of the Municipal Schools in Ahmedabad. There I met Virabhai, father of a 10 year kid. We were sitting in Principal's Cabin and the father was forcing the Principal to admit his kid in third grade. Virabhai being really concerned about his kid had made his kid cram Math tables and poems.Little kid blurted out his mind just to prove that he was capable enough to be admitted in third grade of a municipality school.
No doubt Virabhais son had different issues altogether as he was specially challenged and he was unaware that he required a special school what was more unfortunate was that the principal agreed to admit his son and henceforth the school will be evaluating his performance relative to normal kids.
This incident made me think that each kid is blessed with a dominant intelligence and yet our education system focused only on logical and linguistic intelligence and evaluated the kids based on the same.
No doubt Virabhais son had different issues altogether as he was specially challenged and he was unaware that he required a special school what was more unfortunate was that the principal agreed to admit his son and henceforth the school will be evaluating his performance relative to normal kids.
This incident made me think that each kid is blessed with a dominant intelligence and yet our education system focused only on logical and linguistic intelligence and evaluated the kids based on the same.
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