It takes a village to raise a child – The education of our children is the task of the community as a whole, not merely the province of teachers and local school administrators.
Topic 1
It takes a village to raise a child – It surely does. Education, from the time of the primitive Homo sapiens, has been an integral part in acquiring knowledge – be it practical or theoretical. Man has learnt a lot from pure observations, like the discovery of gravity by Newton from the fall of a small apple. But, in the due course of time, the six-sensed human has confined the art of acquiring knowledge within four walls of the classrooms equipped with a school of well trained teachers. There is a responsibility of imparting education to the children, a big percent of which falls on the shoulders of the teachers and the so called school administrators. Apart from the knowledge imparted to them thro’ books by their teachers, the practicality of life and moral values are more than essential to complete the circle of education – this integral intelligence can be imparted only by the community around him or her. For instance, a child can learn hard work from his father, patience and love from his mother. Not only the parents, but also the community who surround the child should share the responsibility of enlightening him with the knowledge of differentiating things- which is good and which is not.
As a well established fact, teachers are under a heavy pressure to force the scientific, technological, historical data into the brains of young minds. Few schools consider teaching values and morals, that too not being taken up by the child effectively. Only the society can make up a child into a fully grown adult mentally, by impinging values and the knack to tackle any kind of hardship in life. An alarming fact put forth by many is that the so called society which has to impart quality education to the children, instead of doing their rightful task, is guiding many in the delusive path. The community should be well aware not to spoil the young minds at their budding age, as mud can turn to a glorifying pottery-ware; iff the potter himself is good at his profession. While the schools train a child’s brain, the society should simultaneously tend his heart and brain; lure them with some equessential knowledge. Not monotonously stressing on values, i put forth that the knowledge gained by the people who make up the society thro’ their experiences in life, had always been and will always be the source of eternal knowledge to the children. The medical knowledge of the ancient Indian society, the scientific brilliance of the Mayans and knowledge effervescence from so many society of people from vivid parts of the world have always radiated the aura of knowledge to the current advanced human generation – without which all these, the so called microbots and nanomedicines would have been difficult- to be more authentic – are impossible. Thus a society plays a commendable role in imparting quality education to children. Whether it is the sphere of technical education, or the moral side, the society also plays an important role which is no less than that played by the graduated teachers and well established educational institutions.
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