#When #syllabus is reduced.
When we hear Education Minister Sivankutty's announcement that the syllabus of Class 10 will be reduced by 25 percent, the first thing you think is whether this is an accounting exam. The content is the same, but the size will be reduced by 25 percent. We will have to call the mathematician Pythagoras himself again to find out how this is.
The minister says that the curriculum committee has approved the syllabus reduction; but when the news comes out that the committee itself was not aware of this, it is natural to doubt whether the education department has become a 'note-taking department'. When it is certain that a new government and a new minister will come next May, isn't announcing such a long-term change a sign of the minister's mentality of "let me leave a mark before I go"?
This announcement does not even show the basic sense that the syllabus is being formulated taking into account the national-level structure and coordination with other states. If we listen to the minister's explanation that the syllabus was reduced because the children complained that the syllabus was too much, will we ignore the alphabet if the class first students say tomorrow that letters are difficult and pictures are enough? If MBBS students say that anatomy is too long, will we suggest that they only study the heart and ignore lungs.
Education is a matter that should be pursued through scientific planning, not a matter of holding a popularity poll. If we accept the logic that reducing the syllabus will reduce the difficulty, wouldn't it be a great relief if the exam itself was skipped tomorrow?
Is there no one in the education department who is conscious, this question should be included as a question in the textbook.
-K. A. Solaman
