Every part of life a learning experience and life as a student is more interesting. It is because as a student, the primary duty is to learn, but serious questions arise since the learning curves go south as age progresses. As a child we tend to learn too many things and are very free to experiment without fear of failure, but as we age the fear of failure overpowers our desire to learn, experiment and experience. Apart from this fear, we also tend not to learn from others' experiences. The student life during adolescence is a dangerous mix of harmonies and rebellious ideas.
Children are becoming independent decision makers at a very young age and parents who are too concerned about their children are encouraging this trend. We are seeing more advertisements and marketing which are focussing on children as the decision makers. The question here is, whether a child is capable of taking decisions about issues that even a adult might not have a full knowledge. The children is in a safe cocoon given by his parents and elders and are taking certain decisions whose effect is not allowed to felt by the decision maker.
It is important to make a child to be made to understand the results of a particular decision and also to shield him so that he makes better decisions. The duty of the adult is to ensure that the child who has made a decision also bears the fruits of the decision and makes a learning. This part is most difficult as nobody wants rotten fruits. There is a strange case of nuclear families that we are seeing in the present world. In the so called bad old times, with a set of parents having 5-10 children, the children were not given luxuries, but an important lesson was taught. The lesson is about patience, sharing and making compromises for the sake of our siblings. This lesson is the most important of all.
But in the nuclear families, the child being the centre of family universe more often than not, the child if pampered a bit more than might have been necessary. There is no lesson about patience, sharing and making compromises and since a set of parents have to rise 0-4 children, there is more cash and resources available at hand. If there is intolerance on the streets and all around us, it must be due to the breakup of our societies and families into nuclear families and losing our ability to learn to adjust to others around us. Whether it is good or bad only time will tell in the long run.
In this scenario, if we tend to see the education system, we are finding that the governments have destroyed the quality of education for want of quantity. Many reports suggest that class 8 students are not able to do maths problem of class 3 and we are producing idiots with certificates. The schooling systems are such that no child is failed up to 10th because of a false concept that a failed student will lose his self esteem. The marks of students are changed in grades to avoid a few suicides of students due to poor marks.
Whether a student who cannot take failures can become successful? I strictly don't think so, and there is no correlation between the monetary success and the academic performance. We see world over the best entrepreneurs are not only highly educated and persons of high academic credentials but students who have been ordinary in their academics. Making money legally is a skill and so is taking and accepting failures in life. It is most important to tell children/students that success is a very rare element of life while failure is more common element and is more easily available in life.
Everyone wants to be successful in life and people tend to glorify the successful people in order to inspire other. But how often we talk and discuss about the struggles and mammoth efforts put in by these successful people. The education that a student should be given is to accept failures as a part of learning experience and solve the problems at hand objectively. the students should me made to learn and be detached from the problem and not take the failure of solving a problem as a personal failure. It is equally important to make one understand that monetary success is not everything but a essential part of life. The morals and ethics are equally important and living harmoniously with others who might be weak or strong is the most important.
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