Vir Das, the comedian, actor in Bollywood has more active and less popular facet that you might not know. Perhaps he’s one of very few people in the film industry who are real, well versed & make sense.
He’s pretty active on social media, so go, follow him!
I’m bit late posting his YouTube video on anxiety about the exam results but I think it’s timeless, so here you go!
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid – Albert Einstein*
That sums the current state of the educational system of universal design for instruction and assessment.
Assessing everyone using same test and scale proves totally unfair.
The examiner in pic says:
For fair selection everybody has to take the same exam: Please climb that tree.
I don’t want this measurement to be used in my company. We don’t have dedicated HR department for assessment and sometimes it’s convenient to use universal design. But that will unfair for some. #justsaying. I’m currently reading this thought-provoking book called Maverick
– related to HR and work culture.
*P.S. I cannot confirm whether the quote used above is Einstein’s or not but it conveys my point with the illustration below.
