Thinking is a powerful faculty of human mind.
Education is a powerful tool to progress. We are living in an era in which
education has become a stressful area of life for both children and parents. The
need to excel and emerge victorious is every parent's goal as much as it is for
the child. The competition spirit is far exceeding the limits of endurance and
reasonableness as more and more children feel stressed out and like a failure if
they don't get “high” grades while the benchmark for “high” grades only keeps
increasing.
Even the best CBSE school or a top international school is primarily measured
with the yardstick of its academic performance, or in other words, through ranks
and such systems. There is no wrong in it, in fact this the mark of how good the
educational institution is as a choice. But the method in which education in
imparted and the systems being implemented differs within each group of the
so-called acclaimed institutions. What sets apart the healthy mode of learning
is the factors stressed upon during education.
Preschool education is often ignored or treated merely as a play school
learning. But it is the basic and building block of the student's interaction
with learning, and is therefore of immense importance. If you look at the best
matriculation school in Chennai or a top higher secondary school in Mumbai or
any other competent school within the city, the learning curriculum may be
similar or same. Developing a humane attitude and instilling in the child's mind
about education as a need and an interesting means to personal development is
the point of true success for a school.
While most schools do not succeed, even if they do at the obvious & surface
levels, there are sadly only a few which actually make an impact in encouraging
children towards stress-free education and making education interesting for
them. Only the best of faculty can really “train the minds to think”. All of us
have both good and bad things to say about the educational system. But we do not
take steps to make the good things better and converting the bad things into
good. The lion's share of economic progress may be attributed to education. The
awareness created by education makes for analysis and utilization of better
opportunities. Good investments too are the results of wise learning. It is
therefore the oil for the wheel of progress.
To curb the trend of increasing numbers of students' suicides and to make
education interesting to children, they need to be first taught to appreciate
knowledge and learning as an activity. Children should be treated with respect
as growing individuals and not as high-score brewing machines. Their unique
talents or inclinations to a healthy and creative aspect of one's personality
has to be appreciated and allowed to be developed. Only a well-experienced
teacher can bring out the best resources of a student and help him or her
identify strengths and lacking nodes. Atleast 90% of us would agree to the fact
that we never found education interesting during our schooldays, irrespective of
whether 10 years or 50 years back. It was always either a role-model teacher or
a teacher friend who made us realize the value of education and helped us
understand the seemingly insurmountable subjects. To some of us it could have
been mathematics, to a few others it could have been science and so on.
Teaching is one of the noblest professions in the world. Making it nobler is the
power of teaching fraternity. Systems, practices and attitude of imparting
education can make a significant change and influence students' lives. This
change can emerge to be a sea change in shaping the tomorrow of the child and
the society in which he or she lives in and will continue to be a part of. Thus
it becomes a social responsibility rather a collective one to make education
interesting to children so that they do not stop with asking questions but also
arrive at the answers themselves, with proper guidance in the right direction.
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