Questions on education, learning and teaching that I have been facing..

Vocational training should be a part of  the school curriculum . Critics have often pointed out the inadequacies of our education system. The school curriculum is too much academic. It is not practical or job oriented. Hence vocational training must be made compulsory in every educational institution. Actually , vocational training should be made a part of the school curriculum. liberalisation of economy has opened new avenues in industries and commerce. Information technology has brought a new revolution . computer programming has been made a compulsory subject in most of the schools. Every school and college has its own computer lab. Similarly every school must have a workshop. The students must be imparted vocational training there. Everyone can’t find a place in the corporate world. After plus two, they can became earning members for their family. vocational training centres in schools can act as feeders for the corporate world. School and environment should promote the education of girls. In every country there is always a sizeable number of conversations. They are deeply rooted in the past. They abhor any change of any kind in society. They refuse to march with the times. Actually they try to arrest  the onward march of the society. These are still many sections in India Which still discourage girls to schools. Consequently, a sizeable section of the population is deprived of education. Many muslim women have curved out their names as academicians, writers and teachers. More and amore girls are coming forward to receive education. However, There are many sections among muslims and hindus which still prefer to swim against the current. They are against sending girls to schools and colleges they consider that their responsibility is over the moment girls to schools and colleges. they consider that their responsibility is over the moment 5they may off their daughters. Cooking sewing and embroidery are all that gals need to learn during the struggle for India s independence lakhs of women were in the forefront. In free India education of gals must be given the top priority. The government must find out ways and means to promote education of girls in the country. First of all special incentives be given to girl students. Deserving and brilliant girls must be granted scholarships. They should receive free education up to senior secondary level even in private schools. More schools for girls be opened in villages, particularly in remote areas. Public transport should be made available during school  hours. Among conservative sections, the public opinion should be made in favour of gal education. India has to march with the times. And it can’t till all its girls are in schools and colleges during the morning hours. value education should also be a part of curriculum in schools . education cant be reduced merely to the job of providing degrees.   education must be ‘value based’. But value based education still remains a distant dream. The result is disastrous. The young students in schools and colleges are going astray. Some are being reduced to walking computers. The others have become white collard brutes. Both way, the development is lopsided. It is the age of neo-consumerism. Unfortunately, morals and minds of the youth are guided by the forces of market. Material prosperity has became the only aim of life. Gone are the days of simple living and high thinking .pragmatism, and not principles, is the guiding factor of life. The cable tv only polluted the young minds. It serves overdose of sex and violence. In our school various steps have been taken for the moral values of the students. In the assembly a five minute talk regarding morals and values in life is a compulsory. Education in schools suffers from many drawbacks. It dose not lead to an all round development of personality. As I have been facing that physical education is lack in schools. Physical education in schools has not received its due attention and importance. education is confined to academics. The result is disastrous. A country of about hundred crore  peoples could not win a gold metal at the Olympics. Neglectful attitude of the government towards physical education is responsible for this story state of affairs. It should be a compulsory subject upto the secondary level. Our schools lack even the primarily facilities. Many of them don’t possess good play grounds. We should catch the potential sportsmen while they are still young. Sports and games are via media of national unity and national solidarity. Inter state tournaments foster a spirit of brotherhood and co operation. Sports and games make us physically and mentally strong. After all, a healthy mind lives in a healthy body. Sometimes more assignments being also a burden for students. Stress and anxiety becomes the problems of students. Teachers do not understand the children problems. What was the reason behind his assignments are not on the time. Sometimes teachers gets strict much. Students suffer a lot. Teachers do not want to listen their problems and troubles they just want their assignments should be submitted on time. Less time more work became also on issues for students to manage all works. so teachers should understand children problems. Teachers should not be very strict. Teacher has to understand child psychology as well. Instead of punishing the student hard make him realised that he can take the help of teachers in doing assignments and should complete it and also know what kind of problem he had in assignments though student do not have done that. Studies should be stress free. Students do not get depressed. 

Observations of life situations that evoke questions and responses.

As we have seen now a days cultural values do not get primary values so we should promote our natural culture and moral values is also not get preferences but for better education we should aim of moulding personality in the right way.

Response : There are two problems which cause great worry to our educationists the problem of religious and moral instruction in a land of many faiths and the problem arising out of a large variety of languages.  Taking up the education of children we see that they should be trained to love one another, to be kin and helpful to all, to be tender to the lower animals and to observe and think right. The task f teaching them how to read and write and to count and to calculate is important, but it should not make us lose sight of the primary aim of moulding personality in the right way. For this, it is necessary to call into aid, culture, tradition and religion. But in our country we have  in the same school, to look after boys and girls born in different faiths and belongings to families that live  diverse ways of life and follow different forms of worship associated with different denominations of religion. It will not to tread the easy path of evading the difficulty by attending solely to physical culture and intellectual education. We have to evolve a suitable technique and method for serving the spiritual needs of school children professing different faiths. We should thereby promote an  atmosphere of mutual respect, a fuller understanding and helpful  co-operation among  the different communities in our society. Again we must remain one people and we have therefore to give basic training in our schools to speak and understand .  more languages than one and to appreciate and respect the different religious prevailing in India . It is not right for us in India to be dissuaded from this by considerations as to overtaking the young mind. What is necessary must be done and it is not in fact too great a burden. any attempt to do away with or steamroll the difference through governmental coercion and indirect pressure would be as futile as it would be unwise ,any ion of a single way of life and form of worship on all children or neglect of as section of the pupils in this respect or barren secularisation will lead to conflict between school and home life which is harmful. On the other hand if we give due recognition to the different prevailing faiths in the educational institutions by organising suitable facilities for religious teaching for boys and gals of all communities this may itself serve as a broadening influence of great national values.

What is it that enables some people to gain whatever goal they set for themselves while others do not succeed ?  What makes some men winners in the world and others the losers ? if u want to win, we must find the right answer to this very important question. Are there certain qualities or techniques which a person can use to achieve success regardless of his goal?

Response :To confirm this we must carefully study the lives of successful men of the past as well as the present day. No doubt there are certain characteristics which are commonly found among all these great people. But an academic or college education is not necessarily one of them. Such an education perhaps could be an asset. let us remainder  this. college education by itself is neither good nor bad. It all depends on what use you put it to. The important thing is, if you happen to possess it you can use it to advantage. If u do not have it, there is no real cause to worry. Many have succeeded not only in India but also in other industrially advanced countries having attained great success without college education. For instance, Thomas Edison had taken only three month’s schooling. The great Abraham Lincoln was practically self-educated. Benjamin franklin did not attend the school at all. The Wright Brothers were not scientists but bicycle mechanics by their basic profession. Success also does not necessarily depend upon one’s birth, environment, wealth etc. H.G. Wells was born in poverty and had to fight ill health continually. The study of the great , successful, self-made men all over the world, whether of the past or of the present, spotlights very important common factors. They knew how to get along successfully with others. They knew how to sell themselves to strangers and friends, to their employers and employees, to their neighbours, families, in fact to every one with whom they came into contact daily. They knew how to sell ideas, knowledge, talent and services. They knew how to get along with men, influence and motivate them. Success depends to a great extent on what you do with your ideas, talents or gifts. Invariably it is not what you do about what you know. It is not what you have, but what is done about it that spells the difference between success and failure.

What is a true compliment  ?  is compliments  promotes and motivates us to get the greatest achievements of human race . compliments make us happy everyone desires and love to have it . but how ?

Response :Real praise, the sincere compliment is probably the most useful social tool of all. It’s the valued gold coin of our conversation. Yet today, it is in danger of losing its brightness. For it is greatly misused and not properly exchanged. It’s  one  benefits  both giver and receiver. Once a painter and his young  assistant were painting our house. The older man was wearing shiny new shoes. As the man started skilfully  painting , my father-in-law, said to the boy ,”son, when you can show up on the job to paint a house, wearing new shoes, you will be the master of your trade.” The painter smiled and did the best job. We all like to have our sense of personal worth built up or pointed out. And when one expert adds to another’s  sense of dignity and speaks favourably of his skill, he is offering a compliment of the highest and rarest kind. A compliment differs from flattery  in that it is objective and given without thought of gain. Flattery is often merely lip service or excessive praise given for motives other than express. The greatest efforts of the human race have always resulted from the love of praise. This should be inspire in childhood. The wise parent makes it a point to compliment a child who deserves it. A woman I know has a 12 year old son who considers washing dishes for his mother a great honour. One night, while washing a large dish, it slipped and crashed on the floor. Then his mother said ,” you know , Robert , of all the time you have washed the dishes for me, this is the first time you dropped one”. Anxiety left the boy’s face and he smiled. As one  psychologist advises ,”praise virtue and you will find few vices to criticise.” There is an art in this giving of compliments. Thus the good compliments is always to the point and timing is important. Don’t wait too long to tell a person what a good talk he gave or how well he cut your grass. But don’t do it immediately  when he is expecting it either. We ait. Then when he thinks you may have forgotten ,pass the praise. Confidence, it has been said, is the greatest gift that one human can give to another. But that does not mean we should be wasteful with our compliments. Rather we should count them carefully remembering that a good compliment has a greater purchasing power than money , that no one is too busy or successful to receive  word of praise.

Egotism is the commonest fault of mankind. How it can be ? what is it ?

Egotism is the most common fault of mankind. Product of the perfectly  natural desire to display oneself, egotism, which is an exaggerated form of self-display, can take such a variety of shapes that it is not always easy to discern. Beyond any shadow of doubt , however , it is a personality defect that ought to be constantly hunted down the scotched, for it impairs the personality , and frustrates all efforts at self-improvement. This is the easily recognizable form of egotism that is evidenced in the person who continually takes of his own affairs. You must all have met the kind of man who is never happy save when recounting his exploits and experiences in life; and whatever subject he may begin discussing you feel quite sure that he will sooner or later arrive at himself. although  such a blatant kind of egotism is apparent to the onlooker, it may not be so easy for the egotist himself to recognise his fault. But if he can put on his guard and it behaves each one of us to examine carefully whether we are entirely immune from this canker there is always hope of cure. On the other hand, there is a type not uncommon which evidences its egotism by affecting a humility that is certainly not felt , and ostentatiously avoiding the use of the pronoun “I” in speech and in writing. Such affectation is an infallible sign of egotism. It is all the more reprehensible because it is deliberately assumed by the person. Next we come to the individual who holds strong opinions and insists on forcing these opinions on to others. he constantly lays down the law, he knows and he jolly well insists that you shall accept of this conduct ,  although it is not so easy to remove such a defect, for a person of this kind is generally possessed of a fiery temper but again it can be done and recognition of this defect is the first step towards its cure.  Egotist will glibly appeal to duty; he will continually find fault with another’s way of doing things and point out the immense superiority of his method. In his eyes , he is always right. So we should make sure whether we are not one of that kind and get rid of this problem of egotism. 

Short reflective accounts of significant life experiences.

I remember tad one particular day, when I was having a very bad and sad day .I could not give my best in my examinations within deadlines and I was regretting it. A lots of things was going on in my mind, I was frustrated with myself and everything which I had that time. I could not have scored good marks in my examination  because I had done lots of hard work with dedication still I was not get good result which I were wished. Same time, my friends were not sound good enough as they are angry with me for some issues or reasons which I cannot say as even I could not find that what was the exact reason behind that and what was d reason was anyways but it was painful, not good. The environment at home was also not favourable to me as my parents were scolding me and had a controversial issue too on my bad result and had a heated argument too regarding my examination results. I was so disappointed with myself  that time, I thought that I cannot make anyone happy in my life I was the stigma on the face of the society and then they stopped and at last they said  that what is your problem why were you not trying to improve your studies  you had good tutions everything which you want then why you are so careless  about your exams your upcoming future  didn’t  you think that if you had scored good marks you got appreciated by everyone .from  your teachers , your friends etc  go n study n focus on up coming examination now you will have to get good marks ok.. I said yes mom n dad I will do my best next time and  then I came into my room I was crying n  felt that ,  I hurt my parents who gave me lots of love and I was not even make them happy just shame on me I felt guilty I was crying I was not all in good mood . after that mom came to me n said me in soft voice that if your father scolds you that dosen’t mean that he don’t care for u even he cares a lot that’s y he said all ok so get ready for dinner we had dinner just came n join us . but I said that I did not want to come for dinner as I was not hunger still mom is mom she said if u don t eat then I was not going to eat now its up to u what do you want n den I said ok mom I come then we all had dinner together but in front of dad still I was frightened   and also there is a little fear of him as he stats again to scold me . But he didn’t say any word. After dinner mom make him  understand me n realised him that it was just a mistake by me  next time I will do my best etc.  then finally he stopped . they  had gone slept. N den I went to my bed n prayed to god n explain to him all tad just babbling to myself n then I was slept .  on next day, I wake up with a new day and as usual get ready for school . van was standing near my campus gate I went to school with memories  which was happened in previous day all things were going on my mind . the school environment also not gud for me that day    as teacher also scolds us for not  got good marks in exams. Oh god now where to go to get safe from all dis I thought tad time i wished for some time all get disappeared to refresh my mind. I was getting those suicidal feelings as I was not enough mature to judge what was going on  why everyone scolds me did I  make a blunder. But I was regretting tad time so much that if I could have studies more to get good marks den I do not faced all tad that’s all my mistake  after tad school bell rang  I went home by van . after reached home , I done my assignment and had lunch . after tad my campus friends had come n said my mom to sent me to play . my mom gave me permission to go with them. there was a small park in my campus . I sat in the park and was watching people there who spending good time there .. my friends said me to play with them but I was not interested to play with them so I refused to play with them I said that I want to sat there after sometime when I felt good I will come n join u all ok they ask me y u r so upset what the reason was. I said there is nothing n I think in my mind what was to say as my school friends r angry with me for some reason n my parents scolds me n my teachers r also scolds me . all they r not happy to me. But I said no I had little headache so I was not feel better. U all go n play as soon as I felt good I will come. She had gone. after it I saw an old couple sitting alone . their aged skin n sad n old were saying about some grief which I do not get understand . but I felt they r not happy as they were sad . I recognised them they were living in my neighbourhood. I felt positive suddenly  the specs of aunts get drowned on ground . she was not able to get it. Den I went to her n pick her specs n gave her she smiled to me n said thanks beta . I smile back to her den I approached to talk to them and I came to know that they had a son of age 24 whom they lost 9 7yrs back , because of accident . since then they were alone. I felt very bad to heard their story . I get emotional n also felt sad that’ how much sad they r and in and they said that they felt happy to talking to me n wished that I would get some more time to know about them I get attached them emotionally . I became careful towards them as  felt they had very sad days along with them but I was get through a deep thought tad they had lots of pain still they r happy there had no any complain with god while I had so much complaints even I didn’t want to enjoyed my life I had not gone through all tad. Then I realised I have to live but  why I am living / answer to mine self I am trying to keep my parents happy be their world give them so much happiness n also spread happiness around d world . n now I had to be positive just get rid of negativity in my mind . I will have to work hard to achieve my goad to study hard to get pass in exams n score good marks . n make my parents teacher happy n feel them proud . i thought as in world every people has their own stories they all r not happy as they had their own problems n troubles yet the find better solutions to their problem they trying to be happy instead of  complaining god . they enjoyed wad they have in life they r still very satisfied with their life they didn’t compare to others they remained happily with themselves they de y r alive make themselves to work hard as they had to live they had to survive as life goes flawless they also had to move with it as trying changes us a lot .even were could not identifies what was we had now wad we have n den what will be . we all know tad we have to life may be in future we got some reasons to be happy . n den I said myself until I am alive I do my responsibility n do my best in my field n make my parents n teachers n peoples always happy . because happiness is a key to success and laughter is d best medicine.. be happy be good be natural n love d world u have love d god n always thinks in positive way which makes u feel good every time . den I said them bye as I had to go home but that I got a lesson from life n I learned it n I gave them thanks n after reaching home I apologise n said sorry to parents they felt tad I was regretting n now i became a good gal who understands them n listen them carefully they got good signed by me. N after that I focussed my studies n after that next exam I scored good marks in half yearly exams oh god I had done it my heart says to me d environment has totally changed my parents appreciates me mom n dad do not stops as they were continuously praising me same teachers praised me  I felt happy to listen tad complements as I thought tad I god  aaladin ka chirag which completely changed my situation . I  pray to god that I wished d same please support me by giving your blessings as u give me now thanks to u. 2 exams r left so I will have to do more better than dis so I have to enhanced my capability n ability to do so and  after tad I ran into the park searching that old couple . I was wait there n finally I find them they met me in opposite side of park they buying butter n bread from canteen as campus includes canteen too . I approached them and touch their feet they got surprised to see me n den I said to them u inspired me in my life they asked what r u saying beta we didn’t get it n den I smiled n said your story influenced on me as I inspired through it . I learned from u how to live in a very bad n sad situation life instead of complaining of god that what didn’t have we should make us satisfied what we have same time if we have to live to makes others happy n gave them good lessons in life

they laughed at me and their eyes suddenly full of tears they said their time get passed to talk with me . they put her hand on my head to give their blessings n said tad u r good enough to took positivity from us n den they smiled n I also..

That day I I got though dis experience which was very  heart touching for me .

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