| Calendar & Digital Age |
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| May 2012 | |
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Our current education system is more based on muscles than brains! Students are classified for the education process according to calendar age. Each class of students is very similar in age and physical maturity. When we appraise the maturity or the development of a child or a person, we have 4 frameworks but these frameworks do not give us all answers about the maturity of a person. How can a child with Intellectually Handicapped Syndrome be in command of 30 intelligent artists as an orchestra conductor? There is one such person and he leads orchestras at a national level. Emotions are even harder to measure. We can only test the response to situations, and yet behavioural therapists do not agree on what the best response should be. Physical Quotient seems easy to measure as traits are physical. Have we read news that many Olympics medallists and astronauts died young of biological issues normally associated with the old? Spiritual Quotient is even more debatable and discussions are not openly encouraged by the society. Nevertheless, honesty and acting non-selfishly are at the heart of this quotient and they appear to be universally accepted. Calendar age in the digital age is not a good measure of maturity. What about biological age, psychological age, and intellectual age etc? <click on picture to enlarge>    Click to return |