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The 8-4-4 system of education is perfect

Critics of the educational system argue the curriculum is overloaded.

I agree with them in principle. An overloaded curriculum is bad for the school system and the society. The Ministry of Education has, however, over years been trimming the 8-4-4 curriculum. Today’s 8-4-4 is less than two thirds what it was upon inception.

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