We have this amazing subject called Personality Development. It is simply magnificent. Why? Because it's taught using books. Seriously though,


Like I mentioned in an earlier post, the teacher is inappropriate as well. She tries to inculcate good values into us students, but breaks the rules herself. And, we have a written exam based on this subject, of 50 marks.

A little something you should know about exams in India. Your grade/marks all depend on how good you are. . . at memorizing answers. If you write an answer in your own words, using your own intelligence, you have the illusion of being smart and a 0 in your test.

So, this exam was just the same. And some retards actually did memorize the answers. As always, I went into the examination hall with a Y.O.L.O attitude, ready to get a C on the test.

This is what our PD (Personality Development) book is like. We have the text first.


And then Q&A after the text.


And in a class of PD, all we do is, reading of the text, and completion of the exercises. How? The teacher dictates the answers. Even for exercises that say "What will you do if.." Seriously...


First of all, very few kids will actually do that. Most would just laugh along.


And second, even while dictating answers, the teacher can't use proper English.

Remember how I said you have to write every answer word to word in the exam? Well, guess what? The questions asked in the exam, don't exist in our textbook.


And if the teacher actually does want our opinion, how does she plan on marking the answers? I mean, it's my opinion, what right does she have to judge?

The way they teach every student to take up the same values, it's as if they want to mass produce one kind of student, that is, a dumb idiot who has not learned a single thing yet tops the exams because he has the ultimate power (and time) of memorizing.