Living in a fast-paced society like a nowadays creates many changes to the way we carry out our lives. We are getting used to "instant" everything from instant food to instant weight loss program and even instant education system.
It's the speed that improves our living standard but it's also the speed that ruins it.
To cope with this speed we have to learn FAST, SMART and EFFECTIVE.
For students, like me, I need to adapt to this instant education system by taking supplementary lessons, being pro-active in learning, read more books, etc.
Yes that means HEAVY and HEAVIER bag that I need to carry around everytime I go to campus.
Being a student all my life, I can totally identify with current student's problem of HEAVY BAG. Studying is already a hard thing to do and the heavy bag is adding to the burden of finding knowledge. More to that the lengthy distance travelled from home to school just worsens it.
BACK, NECK and SHOULDER pain. That is no longer uncommon.
- THEY BURN EVERYDAY -
I am a VICTIM, so are other students from year 1 to college.
So who is the antagonist in this whole heavy bag scenario?
Parents? Teachers? School?
Finding a subject to blame this problem on to is not an easy thing.
Many have contributed in creating this problem so I can't pinpoint the creator of this problem.
Teachers, for instance, are often blamed by parents for telling students to bring extra things for lessons but are they really the cause of it?
In my opinion they just do what they are supposed to do. So who tell them what to do? The school does through the curriculum it is adopting. Then it is the school's fault? Part of it.
No parents seem to be attracted to enrolling their children in a school that takes longer years to graduate from. So now many schools cut down the years by cramming the lessons and shortens the holiday duration. But the curriculum cannot be carried out without first getting Government's approval. Aha! so it's the Government and all those politicians who make students suffer.
Well, sort of, but then why does the Government makes such a decision? For revenge?
Are they that childish in mind?
I guess it's the demand of the society and the economy that crave for fast development, fast profit gaining, fast increase in living standard. The Stone Age children didn't have to carry such heavy backpacks; there was no need to gain knowledge to get a decent job, thus, higher living standard.
It's the demand of everyone in the society that creates an illusion of education as the source of the whole successful life concept. This causes students to carry heavy textbooks and all just to be able to survive in this highly competitive society.
So BLAME EVERYONE IN YOUR COUNTRY students! Except yourself of course! :D
If there is one thing that can be done to solve this problem is to change the way our society thinks, which is not instant and almost nearly impossible.
This is when a group of creative students like us are needed to design a solution to such problem ;)
