Students, parents and schools want educational success. They want to feel successful keeping away fullness. What, actually, is success and fullness? If this question is not answered; one can succeed to get on the top, only to discover climbing atop the mountain of wrong goal.
Real goal of educating self is to experience fullness of life. For example, students learn mathematics to fulfill day today mathematical needs. In spite of passing SSC with 95% or more marks in mathematics, if the child has to depend on others for satisfying mathematical needs then fullness can never be experienced in life. But the child has experienced the pleasure of success in the SSC examination. Fullness is always accompanied by success, the same way as the object is accompanied by its shadow.
Education in itself is aimless. It is the student, parent and the school, who assign the aim to education. Unfortunately majority of them have attributed scoring maximum marks in exam as the sole aim of education. They indulge in believing the self as successful if the students can score maximum marks. Consequently their entire resources are employed to cater to the belief of false success. Such success is not always the true success. If it was then there would not have been suicides and suicide attempts by the successful students more so, after securing admissions in desired prestigious institutions. Fullness is guided by intelligence in absence of ego and it creates joy.
Successful student sans fullness is constantly in conflict with learning. His/her energies are diverted towards success of scoring marks rather than fullness of knowledge experience. He/she finds no joy in learning but experiences pleasure upon scoring desired marks in test. Otherwise he/she becomes sad and depressed. Such student may take drastic steps to harm self.
Student looking only for success often raises disempowering questions. He/she is constantly faced with the question, whether the topic being taught is important for exam? He/she may suddenly pose these questions to the teacher in the ongoing class and cause disturbance. Such students do not realise the distinction between different pieces of knowledge within the subject.
It is observed that, students scoring even above 95% marks in mathematics at SSC; struggle to cope with it in XI science. They then prefer to drop it for offering some other non science subject. Thus the very purpose of joining science stream is defeated. This is because the students are successful outwardly. But inwardly there is educational indigestion caused by emphasis on marks scoring. Whatever was learnt is useless due to forgetting. Fullness of education is in the education which you may forget for getting again rather than for not getting permanently.
