DAY 40

GONE ARE THE DAYS, NOW ARE THE TIMES

Education is trying to drive us crazy; it is as if the more we read the more we forget. I wonder why this is happening, probably we have crammed too much over the years so the brain finds it hard to easily anything new.
Some of us actually thought Crèche School, primary school, junior high and senior high school were hard. I remember those days of coming 21st in nursery school out of a class 27.........Thank God for primary school when I discovered the difference between the right and the wrong answers..........Thank God for high school, only distinctions in mathematics.

But I still wonder why,

Gone are the days when we were given drawn diagrams to label,
Gone are the days when we could answer all the questions in an exam,
Gone are the days when we got 100% at the end of a term,
Gone are the days when we never even failed a sum in mathematics throughout a term,
Gone are the days when we wrote exams by ourselves and passed,
Gone are the days when calculators were useless to us,
Gone are the days when we passed without cramming,
Gone are the days when we did not have to do overnight to pass,
Gone are the days when we understood everything we read by ourselves,

But,

Now are the times when we force everything we read in,
Now are the times when we do not all night and still we do not cover all that was taught,
Now are the times we cram a whole lot of pages,
Now are the times we do formation to pass exams,
Now are the times we punch our calculators for even the simplest sum,
Now are the times lecturers add marks so we can get at least a “D”,
Now are the times we sleep from the beginning to end of every lecture,
Now are the times when we get 71% and we are happy we earned an “A”,
Now are the times you can barely answer all questions given in an exam,
Now are the times we gamble on each question to obtain the most of marks,
Now are the times we are told to draw and explain with suitable diagrams.

The present has changed so I guess we need to adapt to it. I guess this is an opportunity to tell all my friends GOODLUCK in all your final exams.