Why do we have exams📝?

Because we as human beings have this unfortunate need to standardise everything with the help of numbers. We wrongly believe that we can judge the capacity and the capability of a person by their outer performance. This is however erroneous and slowly some leading educationists realise this. There are many factors that count for our real worth, most of which cannot be measured. But to understand all this mankind has to make much progress and it is far from that.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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“Follow your passion” some people say. I am stuck a little. I have a broad direction in which I want my life to develop — in service of the nation. At the same time, the scope of different careers is so wide that I don’t know what is best for me! A part of me wants to study something very practical which will enable me to realise this vision even if I don’t like the subject in and of itself (for example, studying finance). Another part of me wants me to do something that I would intrinsically enjoy studying (for example, music or history). However, I doubt whether choosing this path will enable me to develop the skills or knowledge that will be of much use when it comes to making impactful change in society. Can you suggest how I can develop clarity on this? I definitely agree with people who say that you can only succeed in and be happy doing something that you feel passionate about. But isn’t this idea slightly overrated? Shouldn’t one be able to enjoy and succeed in whatever one does, no matter what it is? Even if it’s not something one enjoyed doing as a child or doesn’t have a natural predisposition towards😠?

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