It is never too late to form words…
No it is not intelligent quotient that is the problem in my part of the world…
Persist, Work Hard and Be Smart, as there is no other time than now to improve your skills and many lacuna which is not your mistake. It is the system!!
For Example
The English language taught in various institutions is different with different expectations from teachers in different schools. But if you inquire into the credentials and accomplishments of most people, you will be astounded by the degrees earned, we have MBAs, Engineers, Professors but at the end it is just experiential learning and not Academic that brought them there.
The reason: We want quantity not quality, we need super muggers not conceptual learners, we need activists, advocates to defend themselves and not intellectuals. We react at the wrong thing, not where things should be actually corrected.
The crown lands on the heads of as few as 20% (I am being modest here) who are lucky enough to get timely intervention at home by parental guidance and training to achieve the so called success. I am one of them but it was my school that inculcated the quest for knowledge and it was not by rote learning.
I solved my Physics exam on the spot, learning it in parts throughout the year, and practice during practicals because it was full of numericals and I conceptualized the subject. I was able to derive the formulae then and there in exam hall as I did not mug them, and got fairly good marks. I think that is how it should be. I still remember it!!
Next I pursued my degree as M.D Physician followed by M.D Community Medicine, just because of conceptualization and infrequent memorizing to pass exams. But I find it difficult to form appropriate words still, while delivering lectures. Why? Because when you teach or answer about an ellipsoid joint, you should be clear what ellipsoid means and looks like, how it moves!!
Who will teach that to medical undergraduates? It is the prerogative for the specialists only. Consequence- Students memorize without understanding and completely forget things after the exams. We cannot train able minds if the school teachings do not build strong foundations for students to look back upon their previous knowledge, we are forgetting and re-learning everything again and again from scratch, it is very brutal for a medical graduate.
But we have those 5% who show sheer brilliance, and I am not the one, who are equipped with a theoretical and practical mind, both together, and these stars either leave the country or find only lucrative positions and do not really bother about the education system which should not be for these 5%, it should fit for at least 70% of the students who choose to become doctors!!
Also sometimes the brilliant might become harassed in other spheres of life and their hopes shattered which hampers their progress and they resort to immorality (according to anybody and everybody’s opinion around them) or extreme fanaticism which becomes difficult to tackle. The solution is impending doom and drugs………….Stay positive, we do have lucky ones!!
Whosoever, the brilliant or the average, the situation lauds own efforts only instead of collectivism towards how the right kind of mental and professional growth should be. The situation is not bleak because experience counts and we can learn from it….it is never too late to do the real work and form the right words to imagine and think the language in which you form long term memories of the matter consisting the curriculum of your degrees earned as a psychologist, as a doctor, as a teacher, manager, writer, and so on. I want to end the agony that most students experience in my world when they sit to study, it should be enjoyed, not a forced effort and it is quality not quantity that matters in any exam for any degree.
Help each other, learn and discuss….experience for now (wait for system change, by the way the change has begun) and create positive and productive memories!!
