elatives although un-educated are very sucessfull in business. As I said it's the skills, effective communication & experience that is important rather than junks of unused information. In a recent survey in USA, 78% of the millionaires weren't at the top 50% of their class, infact they were told by their teachers that they'd never succeed in life. Guess it's the other way round. Rather than be told how to do sums students can be told to stretch their minds to think hard. This is almost impossible esp in A Level cause we've to complete the syllabus in time for the examinations. Hence even in Mathematics, the tendency for the system is to cut short all the bother and just tell them directly or through text books. For example they didn't tell me how is it that they obtained the value for pie. I was just told to memorise it's value and simply apply. So is the case in Calculus. I might not have problems now but will soon when I get a job. A question to help us decide if this is desirable is to ask how often in life is memory so important. Isn't the ability to analyse and make choices more important. If a student can be taught to analyse and choose, it would be education enough. Also the Universities think they are lucky to recruit students scoring A's in High School. It discourages other students and then they too start Cramming for their examinations. This might well go on from generations to generations untill the whole school system is changed. Students should be taught to think and reason rather than to memorise....
