It's a staggering occasion each and every time you pick up on something like the article titled " It's plain murder, by rote" which appeared in the February 2012 edition of 'The Outlook'. The report brings into light certain startling facts that appear to be an indictment of our state of education in general. Of a number of reasons cited by a number of respected men and women in this pretty long article, the tradition of 'Rote learning' has been voiced loud and clear.
I, personally, have never been a defender of the notion that Indian education is all about rote learning. There isn't any denying that it does permeate nearly every stratum of schooling, but I see a number of other factors, from the amount of money we pour into education to the traditional attitudes of our men, that constrain our education system to the form it is in today. But the term 'rote learning' leads me today to a…
