The main purpose of education is and should be, as its name suggests, to ‘educate’, i.e, to make a person literate and to provide knowledge. But the modern education system has become a joke. It is just teaching us to score marks. If you score good marks, you are a bright student. But if you score poor marks, you are a failure, a loser; you cannot achieve anything in life. This is what the modern education system is imbibing in our brains. Nowadays, in schools and colleges, we are just being taught to keep running in a never-ending race till our last breaths. You have to come first in your class, in your school, in your state, and so on. And the race doesn’t end here. When you pass out of school, you have to top the entrance exams and get admissions in the top most college, and so the never-ending race continues. Once you are out of a race, you are pushed into another. Students are studying not to gain knowledge but either to top or to just pass. No one is interested in knowing what is written in the book or in gaining extra knowledge. Everyone is just mugging it up. And those who are not able to mug up, they are left behind in the race and considered as losers. Libraries are considered a nerd’s heaven and reading has become an old-school thing which has no place in this fast-paced world. How can you judge someone’s caliber and potential on the basis of some stupid and silly numbers. Today’s education system is definitely teaching us to earn a living but it has failed in teaching us how to live life. So I would just end saying that if this is what is the main aim and purpose of education, then yes, this is the best form of education and we are going on the right track. But if it’s not, then don’t you think we should take some time out from our busy lives and analyse the situation. Why don’t we just stop and retrospect?