DON’T FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS

‘Civilization is a race
between education and catastrophe.’ —H.G. Wells   This is an unsparing dissection of the
current education system by someone who has managed to wade through it,
comparatively unscathed.   Unbroken and
unshaken by a system that believes largely in the status-quo, writer Sid
Sanghvi lays bare the truths about learning and the paradoxes in the ‘system’
of education. He challenges age-old notions about how information is
imparted, and argues that learning without any understanding of how to learn,
is the root of the problem.   The book
takes a dispassionate look at the rights and wrongs perpetuated by the
education system, both knowingly and unknowingly. There was a time when
teachers kept a record of all the educating they had done: ‘911,527 blows
with a rod, 124,010 blows with a cane, 20,989 taps with a ruler, 136,715
blows with the hand, 10,235 blows to the mouth, 7,905 boxes on the ear, and
1,118,800 blows on the head,’ wrote one teacher in his personal diary.   Cut to the present, with the
inefficiencies of the current education system exposed by the emergence of
Covid-19, there could not be a better time for the incumbents to get a much
needed reality check. But fear not, in tandem with attempting to lay bare the
flaws of primary and secondary education, this book offers a roadmap for how
one may successfully navigate the current system to maximize their
probability of success.   This is a
simple guide to our education system: its past, its present and a roadmap for
its future.