Monday, July 29, 2019

Educating children for application of mind and skills

I always believe that abolition of poverty and hunger is possible in long run only by having an education system which imparts or trains young minds of children with application of mind and skills.

The management of mind is quite different from learning particular matters at different age groups for all children.

Many thinkers like S Radhakrishnan, Sri Aurobindo Goshe and Swami Vivekananda have said long before that children needs psychological methods of teaching with their own natural pace of mind growth instead of brutally imposing the contents all the time till adult age.

Dr Kasturirangan who has chaired the Draft New National Education Policy Committee says very rightly that

"But to bring in Dalits everytime… even they may not like being treated like that. I know many people who are doing well in society. They are proud of living as responsible and active members of the society. I use them all the time in my mind to make sure we don’t unnecessarily draw lines. I think today, in a modern India and the way we are looking at people, these [differences] are slowly going to melt. A twenty-year programme like this for a ten-trillion economy – dalits will be enjoying probably the best status in this country with their own intelligence, efforts etc. I think they will be asking for no special concession."

And 

This is very interesting and long overdue in India that

"School teachers are going to build the youth of tomorrow. That requires a deep knowledge of child psychology, child development, questions of comprehension, environment, interfaces with society and parents. So, we think school education teachers should come from higher education institutions. Not by giving a teacher course, but it should be multidisciplinary and across the spectrum. This can come only from higher education institutions."

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