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“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Well, this quote certainly speaks many things, if we don’t have the proper base of education then just forget about the future. Well most of us had recently come to know that the national education policies of our India had been changed and it had been effective from the year 2020, moreover although the decision by AICTE of learning physics and mathematics is not compulsory for the students in class 12th had not yet finalized, but just think of the statement. Many of you might say, so what? What’s odd or bad in that? Many of you will only count the advantages of the NEP and the statement of AICTE, but did you ever thought of a disadvantage? Not getting it? Well, let me explain you all. Just imagine you are a student of Class 12th, well not from the ‘Science’ stream rather from the ‘Arts’ stream, now you had thought of experiencing the engineering field and you are completely unaware of the basics of two god subjects of engineering .i.e. physics and mathematics. Now how will you able to understand the concept? Engineering will sound you like a burden for your life. In the classroom while lectures when you would be asked for stating the ‘Norton’s theorem’, your first question will be, “ Who is Norton?” then you will ask, “ What do you mean by his theorem?”, “ What had he stated?”, and college won’t teach you from the basics as they had assumed that you had learned this concept in Class 12th. Now let’s talk about Maths, well to be frankly being an engineering student what my experience tells is that despite I had learned basics of integration and differentiation in Class 12th still whenever I see engineering mathematics my heart skips a beat, yes frankly speaking it is not that damn easy what you think. Now just imagine being an ‘Arts’ student what will be your first reaction after seeing the engineering mathematics? Lots of question will run in your mind I bet you, your first question will be “Hell what is this snake-like structure?”, “Why do we need to put it before the equation?”, “Why we are writing dx/dt after each equation?”, “Oh, God! What the hell is the differentiation of the equation?” ain’t it?

Now you will think huh no matter I will do computer engineering, so wait my dear friend let me give you one me a shock, that Computer also runs with its own algorithm and for that also maths is important. Ultimately doesn’t matter whatever you are good at, but at least you have to know the basics of Physics and Maths of Class 12th. Ok, now let’s move a bit downwards, basically, when we give our 10th board exams, we had been told that decide what we want to be and select the streams accordingly, have you ever wonder what will happen if you want to be an engineer and you don’t like Maths, so you just skipped the subject and opted for another subject say economics. Again the situation will be the same by the end. Now come a bit more downwards, till now we as a kid used to know that Class 5th is the base in which we learn the basic function of the computer, like working on Ms. Word, Ms. Power-Point, Ms. Excel, etc. now what will happen if you don’t make the kids learn the basics and directly teach them coding? Just imagine, when the kids will grow and go for their graduation without having this basic knowledge how can they present their official work properly? Ask the professional coder they still get confused while coding then thinks of the kids, their brains are not that mature even. Many of my friends were saying that these new NEP will help many of the students to have practical knowledge, I bet you it won’t because if you seriously want to have practical knowledge, then you should relate each and every concept with your real-life rather than just rote memorizing, try it once trust me you will enjoy learning. Not getting it? Ok, then let me explain you with an example, just imagine you and three of your friends decided to go somewhere, but one of your friends doesn’t want to go, and hence one of you might be pushing her or one of you might be pulling her, and hence she moved, think.. thinks we had used a little bit of physics in these actions. Now, many of my friends had also shown the advantage of trying multiple subjects to learn by keeping the other one on hold, I hope many of you might have heard the proverb “ Two wrongs don’t make right”, just think of the situation, you are doing Bachelor in Engineering, now suddenly you get an interest in learning Diploma in Arts, you keep your previous degree course on hold took the certificate like diploma certificate and started learning Diploma in Arts, now suddenly you lost the interest and then again want to continue your engineering degree, you took the certificate and kept the Diploma in Arts course on hold, you got back to you engineering course showed the certificate and started learning again, but now you are facing difficulties as you had forgotten few of the basics of the course, now your situation would be the worst one as you don’t have a proper pathway for you to achieve the target, and your current situation is making it more worst, ain’t it? Yes, I do agree there might be many advantages as well, but as a student that to pursuing graduation student I feel there are a lot more disadvantages than advantages, but still, we can’t say anything until and unless it got effective with the curriculum. Last but not least I want to end up with the famous quote of Albert Einstein “ Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”

So keep learning and enjoy learning!