Don’t sell your books and keep your diplomas. Sell your diplomas, if you get anyone to buy them, and keep your books. ~ Walter B Pitkin In this censure of the examination system, Pitkin obviously referred to the obsession with degrees. This is linked to the private tuition racket that begins at the very elementary …
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September 11, 2017The decision of the National Council for Educational Research and Training to conduct what it calls a “census” on the education system comes amidst the raging controversy over whether the system of examinations should be retained in schools, at any rate till Class VIII. There can be no quarrel with the move to conduct a …
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April 2, 2017The decision of the National Council for Educational Research and Training to conduct what it calls a “census” on the education system comes amidst the raging controversy over whether the system of examinations should be retained in schools, at any rate till Class VIII. There can be no quarrel with the move to conduct a …
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April 2, 2017