Banning notebooks, guidebooks

A High Court bench delivered a verdict prohibiting the printing, sale and marketing of notebooks and guidebooks back in 2008. Sadly enough, the verdict has not yet been implemented. Students in most of our schools are now fully dependent on notebooks and guidebooks, particularly in our villages. What is more worrying is that even most teachers follow these books for making questions and do not encourage their students to think freely and creatively. Notebooks and guidebooks are totally contrary to the objectives of the creative method of education, since they focus only on exams rather than students' development.

If we want to achieve the objectives of education, notebooks and guidebooks have to be banned immediately. If we cannot do that, our students will continue to memorise information from these notebooks and fail to get the best of what education has to offer.

Md. Fajlay Rabbi,

Dashmina, Patuakhali,

fajlayrabbiraaz670@gmail.com