Education can't be the Same!
I spent my last month on an exchange trip to Hungary. My experience is really difficult to be rightly described....so great it was! Getting acquainted with a different culture, different kinds of people and a new schooling system!
Yes, the schools! If you think you know what schools are, you might want to wipe that smoke off your specs, because, education all around the globe is very different-- very, very different!
Schools are not the same in Hungary. On my first day there, I quite felt like I was in I don't know... but honestly, not in a school! Students standing on tables, playing pop songs in their phones and sandwiches and cola-bottles-- as big as missiles-- seated proudly on the desks. It is not at all like the schools you see in India. An empty classroom might look like one, but not with the students!
Few students "like" school. Some students might be exceptionally good at some subjects, but most don't like any particular academic subject. But then, I got the answer why. Students never compete for grades and that's the reason why they seem casual towards what they are taught. Moreover, that doesn't mean they don't know or they don't learn anything. Their pattern is different.
The breaks after each lesson are when we see a long queue in front of the canteen. Even if you are late you might not need to stand outside the class. Indian perception of school is quite different from what there is.
After Class X the student shave a choice to continue schooling or to join a vocational school to be trained for a specific profession. This system is quite simplified and works great.
Another difference I found was the examinations. Indian schooling system
is incomplete without competition. But in Hungary it isn't so. They don't have any final examinations, rather, their final grade is just the average of the grades obtained in the small tests after each unit. The only main examination is the maturity exam, which is given to certify that you have completed your schooling. That too, is totally different from the "Boards", what we call in India. mostly, it's a two-hour paper with some objective-type questions, given in the format of a worksheet.
All this gave me a sort of negative impression of the their schooling system, but towards the end, I had to wipe that smoke off my specs! As I came to know each of my classmates, I realised each one had their own interests, and each had qualities by which they could be distinguished. Their helping nature, honesty and frankness was the best. I really feel grateful to have got
to know a new system of education, and to make such wonderful friends! Both the education systems can't be compared, they are entirely different!
Yes, the schools! If you think you know what schools are, you might want to wipe that smoke off your specs, because, education all around the globe is very different-- very, very different!
Schools are not the same in Hungary. On my first day there, I quite felt like I was in I don't know... but honestly, not in a school! Students standing on tables, playing pop songs in their phones and sandwiches and cola-bottles-- as big as missiles-- seated proudly on the desks. It is not at all like the schools you see in India. An empty classroom might look like one, but not with the students!
Few students "like" school. Some students might be exceptionally good at some subjects, but most don't like any particular academic subject. But then, I got the answer why. Students never compete for grades and that's the reason why they seem casual towards what they are taught. Moreover, that doesn't mean they don't know or they don't learn anything. Their pattern is different.
The breaks after each lesson are when we see a long queue in front of the canteen. Even if you are late you might not need to stand outside the class. Indian perception of school is quite different from what there is.
After Class X the student shave a choice to continue schooling or to join a vocational school to be trained for a specific profession. This system is quite simplified and works great.
Another difference I found was the examinations. Indian schooling system
All this gave me a sort of negative impression of the their schooling system, but towards the end, I had to wipe that smoke off my specs! As I came to know each of my classmates, I realised each one had their own interests, and each had qualities by which they could be distinguished. Their helping nature, honesty and frankness was the best. I really feel grateful to have got
to know a new system of education, and to make such wonderful friends! Both the education systems can't be compared, they are entirely different!
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