Let’s enable students to make the right choices

Context: There are certain flaws in our education system and upbringing which do not focus on the inherent capabilities of children. The purpose of education is to actualize the already existing potential in every child. 

Meaning of Education

• Spotter of innate tendencies: Education is derived from the Latin word ‘educere’-to draw out from within, which helps in spotting latent talents of each individual.
• Purpose: to actualize the already existing potential in every child.

Present Education system

• Our education and upbringing do not teach you what you really are; these teach you what you want

• Consequences

• These ‘wants’ translates into: endless desires and mindless actions of road rage, the radicalisation of youth, environmental degradation, suicides.
• Absence of self-regulation, ethics, and a sense of social responsibility: as a result of the destructive behavior of continually making poor life choices.
• Lack of adequate discerning ability between right and wrong: during early childhood makes you inadvertently absorb negative life experiences.
• Recurrent negative behaviour: based on belief system influenced by negative life experiences.

What education should cater to?

• Awareness: As an indispensable key to unlocking true potential and help discover who you really are and help make the right choice.
• Greater vision of the end product: a balanced person who abides by harmony.
• Method of education (from playschool to College): viewed as a whole, in keeping with the stated vision and progressively imparted in an organized manner.

• The first seven years of a child at playschool and primary level: Fertile period

• To expose the child’s inborn spirituality to nature, earthy activities and the glory of creation.
• Child’s natural curiosity absorbs the interdependence between people, plants, animals and the earth.
• They imbibe values of oneness, love, empathy, care and compassion.
• Helps in building a child’s relationship to a higher purpose (nature, God, universe or even a tree)
• Facilitates a holistic approach to learning: prepares the student to recognize the connectedness of mind, body and spirit.

• Consequences

• Enhanced Perspective: outside the constant I, Me, and Mine syndrome of the ego.

• Opportunity for real change: with a holistic approach to learning, opening the mind, nurturing the spirit, and awakening the heart.

• Unleashes creative potential: that aligns the head that reasons and the heart that feels.

• Harmony between what one thinks, says, and does: Developing a new outlook of viewing the world inside out.

• Expanding the horizons: following a symphonic life that urges oneness of humanity, transcending man-created hurdles of religious, racial, cultural, geographical, and ideological differences.

• Master the art of thinking: how to think and how not to think.

Conclusion: As you sow in the subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment, and make the right choices.

Quote: “Students are not vessels to be filled, but lamps to be lit.”