School started once again a fresh. Fragrance of freshness filled in schools through the books, school bag, dresses, ties, shoes & over spilling energy of kids. The kids ran to their respective schools with great hopes of meeting their old & new friends, sharing their fun in holidays & perhaps gauging the mountain of studies which has still increased raised that the previous year.
Sheer look at the school children chills elder. Schools starts early in the morning. With all those periods, extra classes & present fashion of finishing home work at the school only consumes lot of time & let the child off the school by evening. If the school to home distance is more than five to six kilometers the kids rush to their grossly unavoidable private tuition classes. Such classes often lure the kids & their parents of guarantee of good grades & in turn spin lot of bucks. Just out of jealousy children & or their parents make their wards join tuitions. By the time the kid comes home he is tired & falls on the bed like dead stone. Perhaps the alarm clock must be the biggest enemy of present school going children.
Imagined weight of VIIth standard child could be more than five kilograms? One to three text books for each subject with are allied with note book of two hundred pages, once scrap book & one book for home work. Such seven to nine subjects plus compass box, lunch box, water bottle, bag itself. And further more if the kid is interested in sports he’ll definitely be armed with football, hockey stick, cricket bat or ball. Poor chap if he gets fifteen minutes of good energetic play in whole day he is more than happy. Back home there are TV programme & computer games to clutch him to seat.
To add up to this all, there are classes of all the sorts viz. dance, playing certain instruments, swimming, trekking,…. Perhaps the day has to have forty eight hours than present twenty four. Where the future citizen of the world heading?
Nobody can deny of importance of schooling. Yet, at the same time just schooling can not necessarily mean learning. A minimum number of subjects must be added into curriculum instead of stuffing like waste bin. Each being is different & thus will have different aptitude & capacities. The reason for any percentage of failure is lack of willingness of children to study the things they do not like. Neither they are likely to pursue their career into such subjects.
One who hates mathematics will never be a good engineer even if he qualifies to be an engineer & like. There is scope for each & every field if the child likes the field he will definitely excel in that even with limited resources at hand. All is needed is change in mindset of their parents & the society at large. Failure or less marks in tenth or twelveth exams doesn’t at all means end of the world. Neither not being able to get admission in good college or in engineer or medical college will stamp the end of life.
More money doesn’t ensure more happiness or satisfied & pleasant life. On the contrary doing things which one likes offers fulfilling & satisfied feelings. Money no doubt insulates from the unexpected events in life & from ups & downs. Money is very important to earn. Yet, a large period of active life needs to be spent to utilize life as per personal wish. An investment banker may find fun in scuba diving or a petty trader may like to write on spirituality. If his active time of life is consumed in gathering money it’ll be a fallacy. Knowingly if such happens it is tragedy.
By
Vijay Yelmelwar
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