losing the essence of Education

AAA!!!
These are the familiar letters for many since young. Eager parents sending their young children as early as 5 years old to various classes in the hopes for their children to get good grades. Many are now driven to get good grades. Ultimately, their aim is to get as many As. The process of learning seems to be blurry.
Back in our parent's time, a typical recess will have students chatting over who has the most rubber bands, marbles...
Now, we hear many talking about the difficulties of getting good grades and talk with full of zest that without good grades, it's the end. Or, we have some who says that even chatting during recess is a waste of time and should be utilised for education. It's nothing wrong in us to be competitive, ambitious and getting good results. However, the issue is, we seldom see one who pursue education for EDUCATION no more, instead, many just pursue the PAPER QUAlification(the grade A). Sadly to say, the essence of learning is thus lost in many youths.
The feeling of upset is natural when one is face with setback like getting poor results. This will drives them to achieve better results. This is the process that many view lightly. One says that the route to success is having failure as a stepping stone. However, when one takes the grades as the ultimate thing in life,there's no more diversity and leads to a monotonous and homogenity in life. There were instances where we find students taking their own life upon getting poor results.
Is this a matter of own discipline or is the fighting for education has gone out of control?
It boils down to the individuals for their own actions and how they find meaning in life and how they view education. Nonetheless, the society plays a part in how these individuals makes decisions in life or how they view things.
let's hope that the future is full of colours and diversification where many are venturing out in new things and find more learning meaningful and everyday is a learning experience to us.

"losing the drive serves no direction, losing the essence of life, is like losing a life"
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