For years I've been hearing adults sigh and say "Today's youth is like the western children. Even our country has become like western countries." as if that's a bad thing. But, when I watched a few American sitcoms and talked to students from various countries, I realized we're nowhere near their system.

This post would be really long if I pointed out all the differences, so, we'll stick to schools.

1. Schools:

In India, most schools have classes from Kindergarten to 12th grade. However, in most western countries, there are separate schools like Elementary School (Kindergarten - 4th grade), Middle School (5th - 8th Grade) and High School (9th - 12th grade) Of course, India does have a few schools that only provide Elementary education but, most schools take in students of all ages.

It's about time we realize



2. Classes:

In India, students have to stay in one class, while the teacher moves from one class to the other. In the West, the students have to move from class to class for their respective periods.

3. Studies and exams:

We all know how Indian exams are. You learn the answers like a parrot and write it all down on a paper to score marks. No one cares if you actually understood the concept, as long as you get good grades a.k.a you spend time learning answers. That's what studying is in India, it's not spending time to understand a concept through diagrams and videos etc, it's simply spending time to memorize it's definition and uses and stuff like that.

And then, we have this huge syllabus of 10 lessons that is, around 100 pages worth of answers to learn. And in the exam, we only have to write 6 - 7 pages. We spend hours, not studying/learning anything, to write an exam which doesn't even ask half of what we know. And of course, we have to write pages for an exam.

But, in western countries, they only have objectives. I'm not saying it's a good thing that they just have to select one of the choices given, but it is time efficient. They can actually learn something since they don't have to spend hours memorizing.

Now, let's take the example of a popular topic like the first world war. It's not as if people are actually going to ask you about this but, it's an important historical event that people should know about.





Thought we're done? Haha.


Not even close yet, buddy.


Okay, we're done.

Are you bored yet?


Seriously though, we're almost done.