Learning by doing vs Learning by Memorizing!

Very interesting thought indeed! Who gets success in the examination (in Nepal) ? In one of the teachers' training program, a speaker was saying that the people who are good at memorizing/ mugging up the fact and information gets success in the exams. And this group usually come from the elite category or the high caste, who often had habits of memorizing/chanting mantras from childhoods, whereas the majority of people falls outside of this sphere. Their upbringings did not have to do with reciting the fact, rather to spend time with their parents and learn what and how they did. Looking at Nepali scenario, the majority of people do not prefer or like memorizing the facts/ mugging-up-learnings and they usually come from the poor or marginalized category. They are often neglected from mainstream society and privileges. They might be expert in repairing a van and know how to drive it but if you ask them to describe that in theory, it may not be their cup of tea. In other way around, people who are good at memorizing are expert at putting thoughts in paper or theoretical description but if you ask them to put it into practice, you may not get a good result.

This is how our educational system is functioning. Our system prefers to have

theoretical knowledges. Our degrees could not solve things as these diplomas were earned by memorizing. However, they were the one who hold the power as the system was constructed in such way that it never considered to those who learnt by doing rather by memorizing.