Our formal education system basically is an example of 'static model'. Students are taught only that material which is written in syllabus books by some progressive people. Students only have to go through that written material and only have to improve their understanding of the related concepts. But that 'improved' understanding is considered to be the 'upper limit' or the 'upper boundary' of all what students can be expected to do. Students are not required to further improve that 'improved' understanding with the help of their own 'thinking and analysis'. Any further improvement is considered possible only in a situation when the same author has written a new edition of the same book. Only this 'new edition' is considered to be the sole source of any kind of 'further' improvement in the understanding level.
In this way, what a progressive person has done, the students have to follow it. Students are required to 'crawl' behind that progressive person. Students (and many teachers also) remain static up to that level to which they have been 'pulled' by the progressive people. By themselves, students cannot (also not expected to and also not required to) go beyond.
Students are evaluated only for their 'improved' understanding level and it is still irrelevant to consider that if they are able to practically apply that 'improved' understanding or not. Students actually are bound to remain unable to practically apply their better understanding level because 'practical approach' is missing in this kind of 'static' understanding 'improvement' model.
Students themselves do not analyze or evaluate what is written in the syllabus books. They view the written text only from a single angle. Practical situations always require analysis of situation from maximum possible angles. Since students do not do that, they remain unable to handle the practical situations.
Students only have to 'follow' the progressive people so they are bound to remain behind those progressive people. Whatever 'milestone' they have covered, in fact has already been left behind by those progressive people. The situation is the worst in the case of static minded teachers. In fact static students are still in a better position than to the one which is held by the static minded teachers. Students are 'improving' their understanding. They go to next class and 'further improve' their understanding. But the static minded teachers - they actually, even are not 'improving' their understanding. They are just teaching the same material which was already known to them. They are just teaching the same material over and over again and from year to year. Since they are required to teach the 'same' material under this education system, so actually they are not in need to generate any new ideas in the related subject. So the static minded teachers are not even doing what is being done by the static students because students after all, are improving their understanding level from year to year but these teachers are at the same level of understanding for the most part of their respective careers.
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