{"id":30904,"date":"2018-10-27T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30904"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:52:18","slug":"halving-the-syllabus-squaring-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/halving-the-syllabus-squaring-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Halving the syllabus, squaring knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/halving-the-syllabus-squaring-knowledge\/article22882623.ece\"><b>Halving the syllabus, squaring knowledge<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar claimed that the school syllabus needed trimming; he\u2019d also bring back the system of \u201cdetention and examinations\u201d in lower classes that the previous United Progressive Alliance government had done away with.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi\u2019s Education Minister, Manish Sisodia said in 2015 that schools\u2019 syllabus for the 9th to 12th standards would be cut by a quarter and shun \u201coutdated material\u201d and leave more time for music, theatre and leisure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Bombay High Court in 2017, suggested that mathematics be made an optional for 10th standard students as lots of students were failing them and those in arts programmes didn\u2019t need maths in their programmes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>More in news:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The common thread in these thoughts is that an <\/span><b>enormous work load is the cause of stress among schoolchildren and halving the syllabus would translate into fewer hours of course work.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this fails to acknowledge that the culprit is a system that <\/span><b>encourages mindless crowd as the dominant indicator of \u2018learning\u2019.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School students need to be <\/span><b>trained to apply facts to real-world problems and be evaluated in their abilities to critique, seek out information and produce knowledge of their own.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This requires educators to <\/span><b>re-imagine testing <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 everywhere, from kindergarten to management and encourage new Mozarts who\u2019re confident of their creativity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halving the syllabus, squaring knowledge Context: Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar claimed that the school syllabus needed trimming; he\u2019d also bring back the system of \u201cdetention and examinations\u201d in lower classes that the previous United Progressive Alliance government had done away with. Background: Delhi\u2019s Education Minister, Manish Sisodia said in 2015 that schools\u2019 syllabus&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/halving-the-syllabus-squaring-knowledge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Halving the syllabus, squaring knowledge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704895843},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}