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50 form both our society and its economy through innovations and unsuspected adventures. New System of Evaluation The new system of evaluation reflects also the new needs of a fast changing society. To declare a pupil as a failure în any class at so early an age will give him an inferiority complex for life and stunt his growth. Gandhi, Tagore, Edison, Einstein and Ramanujam all dld poorly at school examinations but later became world figures. Why dub a child as a failure if he does badly in one or two subjects that he is compelled to study with or without his will? His interests may lie elsewhere. Give him a poor Grade in that and a good Grade in subjects in which he shines. That is simple justice to the young. The new system is the first step towards revolutionary changes in the educational scene, And there is the rub. Everyone clamours for a wholesale change in the system of education and examination. There are no two opinions that the present system has outlived whatever limited utility it once had. It produces neither employment nor character nor discipline. Laymen look on Schools and colleges as time-filling institutions. The experts express their dissatisfaction with it. Yet as soon as there is a real prospect of a radical change some members of the intelligentsia fiercely rally to the support of the system of which they themselves have been critics. Our main problem seems to be that our radical thinking is not matched by radical action. Soundness of New System. The new system has got overwhelming support from expert educational opinion. It was recommended by the