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BEING DIFFERENT MAKES A DIFFERENCE….
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man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without
a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
What has been taught to our generation and what is being fed into the
heads of the current generation needs to be re-looked by the policy
makers!
Being an educated person means one has access to optimal states of mind
regardless of the situation one is in and though the basic aim of
education has always been to sensitize the scholars to the various
situations of life, creating a reflex system in the mind whereby
decision-making is justified and resultantly, action comes in handy, it
is unacceptable to see that undue emphasis is being put on ‘learning’
things which will be of scant use in life. Importance is being attached
to memorizing than on responsiveness.
A child's mind is a highly productive machine. We as teachers need to
make sure that we tune this machine in such a manner that it becomes
responsive and in turn, helps the child become a successful, supportive
and satisfied human being for teacher isn't worth a great deal if he
teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to
make a life.
To me, education is useless if it doesn’t agitate the human mind.
Education has to stir the otherwise programmed brain to think and think
differently. Education must tell the learner that it is important for
one to think out of the box, for history is not scripted by people who
have a programmed mind, but by heroes who dared to think differently and
acted accordingly.
It is a process that must be initiated by the teachers. It is a foregone
conclusion that teachers effectively affect the lives of every child
they come in touch with. Here, it becomes the primary responsibility of
the teachers to sow the seed in their pupils to think and act
differently. Teachers must themselves think and teach differently. All
teachers have role models, whose gestures and mannerisms inadvertently
drive them on. Without realising that generations and demands of time
have charged, teachers continue to imitate them. A lot of water has
flown ever since. Teachers must teach in a manner so that their pupils
are able to address the demands of changing times. And it becomes
equally important for the teacher to make sure that pupils remain
sensitive to their immediate surroundings and keep their emotional side
awaked to the demands, first of the family, followed by the society,
which ultimately sensitizes them to the demands of the nation. It is a
great task and would need humungous efforts from teachers of today and
tomorrow. They have a task cut out for them.
We, at Red Rose Group, believe that children are the most valuable
treasure of their parents and when the parents entrust us with the
responsibility of their children, we must make sure that the faith that
they have reposed in us must remain intact. We believe that we are
responsible and accountable. It is a constant endeavor at our end to
make our teachers think and act differently and make sure that the
effect passes on to the newer, more alive, more informed, more awakened,
more versatile, more amiable and hence, more demanding generation.
Best….
Sumeet Ponda
Chairman
The Red Rose Group
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