Systems.

If you're an Indian reading this, you will probably relate to every word typed here. If you aren't, then I guess you will get a glimpse of the Indian Education System.

When students get their results and go home, this is one of the few famous things that parents say to their children:
"You passed? Look at <class topper's name> ! He scored full!"
"92? Why couldn't you score 100?"
"Ohh wow. Our son passed. Someone give him a trophy."
And if some kid actually has the guts to tell that they don't like the subject/find it very tough or they aren't interested in something, this is what they hear:

"Don't like?? What do you mean "Don't like"? We send you to school to study, not to decided whether you like something or not."
"We spend money behind tuitions for what? The fault is that you don't study."
"If you're not interested sit at home from tomorrow and sweep floors."
Possibly followed with a few beatings and a boycott for a few weeks.

This is the custom that goes on. They look at the marks and decide the potential of a child. Marks define a person here rather than how much you can actually do. There are very few parents that actually want to know what their children actually want to do or are interested in making their child's aspirations true. They don't invest on the practical aspect of things but would rather spend a lot on the theoretical aspect of things.
That's the Indian Education System where exams are based on how much you can memorize and not based on how much knowledge you actually have. Where things like trigonometric functions which someone will never use is more important than things like personality growth or communication skills.
Now you might argue that there are schools that do said things but can you say that a majority of them do it? You cannot.
Now I'm not saying that theory and scores are not important at all but they cannot and should not be the only things that a person is assessed upon.

The other thing that's a big problem is when people decide to choose careers outside the normal doctrine that has been set. Careers like "Photographer", "Artist", " Chef", "Journalist" etc. are looked down upon and immediately brings a frown on elders' faces. They need to realize that pressuring someone into doing something that they don't want to do isn't going to be benefitial, rather it's going to be harmful for the person both mentally physically. Pressure of said kind is one of the primary reasons why there is a whooping 46,000 suicides per year in India in the age group of 15-29 years.

The sad part is that this is now a system. And systems are hard to change. Changing a system is a slow and complicated process. When this system will change, I don't know. It could be a year. It could be a decade. It could be never. But I know that as long as people's attitude towards the learning process doesn't change, even if we change the way things are taught, it won't make a difference.

And the change starts with us. Because we have the power to change the way we look at things and be the next generation who decide that the current custom isn't feasible for the students. The power of being in the youth part of a generation is that we can observe the mistakes/flaws of the adults and make an effort to change those when we are adults.

If we don't change our mindset towards things, the next generation will suffer just like we do.
It's not about us. It's about what we choose to leave behind.
Make sure, we leave behind something nice.