DIL SE
Not so beautiful?
By Vidya
IGNOU, NOV. 14. Today's children are tomorrow's future and they will have to shoulder huge responsibilities. The education system seems to have risen up to the task by loading the children's back with a huge boulder like school bags that weigh more than half their own weight!
Before the age of 3, they are the merriest lot with all the freedom to play and enjoy. They step into the pre-primary, completely ignorant of the catastrophe that lies ahead. Their high hopes about the place of learning are shattered when the repetitive style of homework creeps in.
Get into grind
Here begins the grind and game of parroting. The inquisitiveness in the child makes him ask a lot of questions. But, the busy parents and the teachers seldom have convincing answers for him. Some children do their homework out of fear, some others want to remain in the good books of the teacher and some are bold enough to protest. Children who refuse to take the load are scolded, beaten up and labelled as disobedient. Do they deserve this kind of punishment? Certainly not!
Has anybody even given a thought about the child's expectation to learning? What does he want to learn and how does he want it to be done? In my school days, I have gone through this same pattern of study.
I have gained marks and grades. But do I have a memorable childhood to look back upon? These are the thoughts, which come to me when I see the tiny-tots with huge bags hurrying to school every morning.
Slog or slug?
In the evenings they are tied up with tuitions, leaving them with no time to play. They are not spared even a few seconds in a day with things they want to do. They live and slog day after day fulfilling the expectation of their parents.
Childhood is the most beautiful phase of one's life. It is the period when a foundation is laid for the future. This foundation can be made strong not by cramming knowledge but by wisdom. The child should be allowed to grow by nourishing his/her ability to think.
Make them into thoughtful and caring human beings first and they will gradually acquire the knowledge from books later.
India needs citizens who can feel, think, see and make decisions and not puppets and parrots.
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