Educational institutions should understand how important role they play in a child’s life. They are not just supposed to concentrate on the academic improvement of the child, they should help the child realize his skills, his passion and encourage him to move forward in life as a responsible, passionate and hardworking individual. Indian education system from a long time has been driving students to the edge when it comes to choice of careers. Here are the things that educational institutions should do for development of a child.
They have been upholding the stereotypic beliefs of the society which portrays that the child should always focus on mainstream careers and academic driven fields. A child who is an average student and is slow in academics is tagged as a failure. The schools and many colleges have been so bent in the aspect of academic development that they don’t give enough chance to the student so that he can realize his true talent.
Therefore schools have been playing a major role in promoting the unhealthy behavior of the society. There should be enough chances available for the students to explore their skills in other fields like dance, music and sports. The schools instead of calling it as a major distraction and the talent as pointless should encourage the students to keep pursuing the field that they are passionate about.
Things That Educational Institutions Should Do For Development Of A Child
Many schools and colleges have however started this approach which has also encourage the parents to change their outlook. Now coming to the other factor, the schools mostly concentrate on the mainstream subjects of arts, science and commerce. They don’t usually have many options that are available in any of these fields. Many schools don’t even have some of the less mainstream options like sociology and psychology.
Many schools don’t have a useful combination of foreign language too. This narrows down the future scope and doesn’t make your education broad and diverse. This also promotes the unhealthy tendency of forcing the students in those mainstream fields which seem to be the only option to earn a healthy living. Many schools have started to review this aspect for student development.
Another thing which should be included in school level education system is the inclusion of value education and sex education classes. Its really compulsory to introduce some of the concepts of male and female body and normalize it. In a mostly patriarchal society like that of India, it becomes very necessary to normalize things for the future generation to foster seeds of mutual respect and equality so that there is no need of empowering because it will be normal for the genders to be equal, no one will need to help the other.
Lastly school actually can expose the child to the concept of discrimination. Discriminating children on the basis of grade sad background has been one of the most controversial yet sad realities of today. This sows the same seeds in the students who later carry on the system among themselves. Therefore the school does need to bring some necessary changes to achieve what it is entrusted with, the wholesome development of a child.
