Education is not merely acquiring knowledge or accumulating information from books which anyone can do who can read or gather & co-relate facts. Education is not just learning a particular technique or profession either. It is to see significance of life as a whole.
In the field of education especially in schools when we are dealing with children we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired but with living beings who are impressionable, sensitive and affectionate. To deal with children we should possess great understanding, strength of patience, love and care. We must understand the child as he is, without imposing upon him an ideal of what we think he should be or projecting upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears or mould him to fit our patterns of desires.
To understand a child we have to watch him at play and study him in his different moods. Right education should help the student not only to develop his capacities but to understand his own interests. This can be done by praising children's accomplishments, ignoring their failures and showing them their own special qualities. This way we can light the torch for their journey to self discovery. |