

Children attend school
unaware of things going in and around them, with a belief that they would get
to know at school from their teacher the things that are going around them. But
to their fate they are just taught what is in their books and that they need to
excel in their book knowledge so that they aren't left behind, from scratch
they are taught to be a ranker and being an average student isn't good. Is this
what they're being taught at school? to discriminate? This leads the
students to form groups, one of the scholar students and other of average
students. is this what they go to school for learning? These are the basic
things to be told by parents to their children, that nothing is wrong in being
an average student and being a ranker isn't necessary. Parents think marks
matter so they force their children to study hard from the beginning by saying
that good marks you will get admission into good colleges, they are given a
burden at an early stage of life 'study hard and you shall get a reputed college'.
They aren't wrong but it is that stage where their children's mental growth is
to be guided in such a way that they inculcate self-learning along with what
they have been taught at school and not take it as a burden that if they don't
do good they will be left behind. Most of the schools teach only what is there
in the books and they don't teach them the practicality of the subject which is
much more important than the bookish knowledge.
The
practical world works much more differently than the books which teach us
how the world works. So if the students know the concept and they don't know
the practical application of the subject then what is the use of such learning?
The most important thing which parents do wrong is they force their children to
go for coaching because they can't give their children time since they're busy
in their own work thus teaching their children to depend on others for
learning. They should make their children aware of the importance of
self-learning. Basically, self-learning should be encouraged by teachers at
school itself so that in case if parents aren't educated at least the parents
are assured that practical aspects of life teachers will teach their children.
At school, they only teach the students to excel in books that don't even have
practical implications.
The very important
thing they fail to teach is 'How to tackle failure?' So those who having been
securing ranks in school because they have been taught in a manner of mugging
up things when they come into the practice and when they crash on something
they just can't take the failure and the thing you hear from them is 'how can I
fail I have written everything, the evaluator might have made mistakes', and then
they start hiding it whenever people ask them 'what's your score ?' and they
hesitate to reply because they have been taught to secure ranks and then only
people will recognize you keeping this thing mind that now that they have
failed society will make fun of them and they won't find them capable of things
and then the real problem starts they start comparing themselves, they start
hiding things from parents, engage in activities which aren't good for them at
the early stage. One more problem is that parents compare their children with
other children which in turn makes their own children weak and that's where so
many children hate their own parents for this activity. Parents should
understand that their children have some different capabilities and interests
whereas the children have their own so they aren't even comparable. Schools
hold parent-teachers meet just to discuss the academics but they don't discuss
how the parents should deal with their children, how they should find out their
children's interests, their capabilities and help them make them grow. This is
what leads the students to take up a path that is not suitable for them.
Now the real race
starts when they done with schooling, once their tenth exams get over the only
fields parents see is SCIENCE and COMMERCE is this only the two subjects in the
world the students should revolve? the answer is NO a big NO, parents feel
their children get into a reputed college only in these fields, and that they
will earn tones. But this is only a myth that runs in their mind. So many
children end up taking things which they don't like and ruin their future,
which was quite opposite to their parent's thoughts. The problem was their
parents or their teachers gave more importance to books which is important but
they failed in identifying their children's interest, determining their
capacity and helping them to increase it. Failing to give an essence of the
real world, asking them what they want to learn rather than giving them only
two choices. There are many things which parents don't talk to their children
because they don't feel it's necessary for them at that early stage but they
forget how cruel is the world and that it is so necessary for them to teach how
to identify what is good and what is bad for them, topics such as
relationships, drugs, social life all these topics are ignored by parents which
if they would have taught their children at the early stage would have helped
them to prevent issues that they are facing today. Parents should always have a
personal talk with their children because in today's world it is very much
necessary for them to have a talk on those topics which are very much necessary.
The most important
thing which is not taught in school as well as colleges is FINANCIAL LITERACY.
More often the teachers or professors who teach, they themselves don't have any
idea about the financial world because they themselves don't know how to make
money and they just give the theoretical knowledge to students and don't teach
application of it because they themselves don't know the application. They
often say 'HIGHER THE RISK, MORE THE RETURNS' , then why don't they take risks?
if they would have taken the risk they would have been in so many different
parts of the world earning huge amount of money. At colleges, the professors
tell if you don't do well no company will hire you, they give us that mentality
that you become an employee of a company and increase the wealth of the person
who is wealthy at the first place and you get a salary which is a very small
portion. They don't teach how to become entrepreneurs and make your own wealth
because they themselves don't know how to make it and then they teach us that
rich get richer and poor get poorer, obviously it will because the children are
unaware of financial literacy. It's very much important to narrow that gap. It
is only possible when the teachers who teach are well versed with financial
knowledge and know the applicability of the subject which they are teaching
then only they can teach the students how to become entrepreneurs rather than
becoming an employee of some company.
In the end, I
would like to say self-learning and knowing practical applicability of things
will help you grow at a much faster pace and try to learn a few things of
everything out of the things available out there. Parents should have a regular
talk with their children and not hesitate to talk about certain topics because
to be honest children know what parents think that their children might not be
knowing. The current generation is very much open-minded and their parents need
to understand the children's social and stress problems which they might be
going through which they're unaware of. And the schools and colleges should
focus more on applications of the subject rather than just imparting what is
there in books.
'Do what you feel in
your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if
you do, and damned if you don't.' - Eleanor Roosevelt
Regards-
Yash Porwal
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