Mugging and Exams
Ben wrote this over the weekend… While the intense mugging of books in the past did generate a certain feeling of smartness, it wasn’t a utile smartness. It was merely an intelligence necessary to ace useless exams, and had nothing to do with ways and methods of looking at the world, of seeing past what people try to force you to see, and of persuading and defending your viewpoint against all others.
All I can say is?
Touché.
The statement is not perfect or complete, but nevertheless it’s sufficient for us to stop, reflect and nod your head in agreement.
Indeed, that is why I’m quite happy with USP. They can’t do away with exams entirely (as much as it pains me to say this, exams are indispensable to a certain extent), but at least it’s kept to a minimum.
I don’t mean that Projects and CAs are easy, but at least they provide more intellectual ‘bang’ for the buck. The tougher the assignment, the more you learn out of it. You’ll never get to learn in an exam. Right? Oh, exception goes to learning how to spit out answers faster. 
