WHAT a refreshing article Mallika Vasugi wrote a fortnight ago (“Being best is not everything” in Star Education, March 9). She hit the nail on the head! It was indeed timely that not only teachers but parents spoke up too to thwart this obsession with the paper chase.
I've had friends calling up that their son or daughter only had two As in recent exams. In my days, that would have “made my cup runneth over”! But now we have crestfallen faces and suicides to contend with.
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