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Enough has been told about the dark side of the grades by educators. Here is a blog that gives 3 reasons grades are bad and restrict students from innovating or becoming an independent thinker. https://www.thnk.org/blog/3-reasons-grades-bad-education/ It has been criticized to encourage "teaching to test" style of teaching, and grades become the end goal rather than learning. No matter how much it is criticized, the status quo of grades has hardly changed. It became a century, but students are still judged only through their grades. Innovation on improving grading procedures has continued in many isolated parts of the world, but it's never done in scale throughout most countries. In India, reason can be the hierarchical rigid political, and bureaucratic system, that hardly gives any choice and training to the schools to innovate. They want everything to be filtered by grades, whether through board grades or entrance scores. Grades have become a source of filt...

The unhealthy use of social media has already created serious damage to society for a decade from now. After the ban of TikTok, the pandemic has also elevated the use of similar social media like Instagram. Kids and teens now spend even more time in gaming and social media to pass their time as there are no schools or no exams. Exams used to create some incentives to sit at the study table. It's not surprising that kids start opening books when there are exams.  Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now But, exams are heavily criticized by educators as it serves to kill and drill methodology of learning. It also impacts the well-being of students and fails to produce kids with critical thinking.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_to_the_test Already we have entrance exam policies that are based on the teaching to test way of learning.  NEP's obsession with "outcomes" means there will be more tests, exams, not less. With its centralising of ...

Blockchain is a technology that is going to impact every one of us. With blockchain, we can program any incentives design with Turing complete language it uses.  With blockchain, we can build dapps (or decentralization apps) 1) Decentralization Dapps don't have a central authority. Most organizations are centralized, whether Govt or organization like Google or Facebook. Centralization gives them absolute power which they can abuse in their own interest. Take, for example, Facebook to take your private data and give you targeted ads to brainwash you against a party. Google to censor the download of all expensive books, so that poor don't get a chance to learn from these books. Or a central govt who can print a large amount of money to spend for election and win which in contrast can create hyperinflation.  With blockchain, we can decentralize all these systems and hard code the rules of governance which they have to follow and can punish them or remove them if they are found fr...