Genius!!!! Hmmm you got 50/50 and you dumb boy just 30. These are the frequent sentences spoken by a maths teacher.In India mathematics is measured in marks . A brilliant student is who , who brings high marks in maths and rest -dumbs!!!You might say Oh! that's quite right , you know the subject you get marks and if you don't know then you don't .
But here is the problem- The people who are labeled "To know the subject" are the people who mug it up. They just memorize digits in the solved examples, the memorize important questions, they memorize the textbooks , they memorize the MCQs etc etc etc.....If you look at this they really don't know mathematics but they know how to mug mathematics up.
A good mark scorer is a person who claims , feels to know everything in the subject BUT of inside the textbooks. We are not trained to use our brains to solve difficult problems but we have trained our brains to mug up difficult problems . We know how to learn concepts up but forget when the exams are over. You can take any boy of a class and give him/her a difficult problem of a concept he/she studied 2 years before .....Then there is a problem.
This not only does not let the student learn the subject well but does not teach us to enjoy its beauty .And as Bernard Russel rightly said-
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
But here is the problem- The people who are labeled "To know the subject" are the people who mug it up. They just memorize digits in the solved examples, the memorize important questions, they memorize the textbooks , they memorize the MCQs etc etc etc.....If you look at this they really don't know mathematics but they know how to mug mathematics up.
A good mark scorer is a person who claims , feels to know everything in the subject BUT of inside the textbooks. We are not trained to use our brains to solve difficult problems but we have trained our brains to mug up difficult problems . We know how to learn concepts up but forget when the exams are over. You can take any boy of a class and give him/her a difficult problem of a concept he/she studied 2 years before .....Then there is a problem.
This not only does not let the student learn the subject well but does not teach us to enjoy its beauty .And as Bernard Russel rightly said-
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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