Vacations are always special for one. According to me it’s
my hibernation period. The period in which I used to sleep for long hours many
long hours... Spending the entire night by watching some movies or series and
sleeping up to 11 am. I never had breakfast while I was in vacation. All I had
was the so called “brunch”.
I was
in my semester vacation then. It was a typical hot summer day. The hands of the
clock were about to shake themselves. And my hand was randomly changing the
remote buttons. In some news channel the saree that the reader was wearing
attracted me. So, I paused there to have a look at the design. And then my eyes
read the lines that were scrolling. It was about the students who topped the
Board exams. I was totally awestruck to see a dozen of students securing the
first place and some three hundreds of them grabbing the next two positions.
Then the next line came showing that the highest score was 499 out of 500. Out
of astonishment I called my mother and showed her the news. She was shocked
too. We were discussing about this matter for a while. As she is a teacher, I
asked her how it was possible and how did the average score percent grew in
such a greater pace within a short span of time? Her reply added fuel to the
fire. She said that the syllabus was diluted and also added the students read
the texts and produce them as such in their exam papers.
I
started to think if it continues there will be no room for the child’s
creativity. The children cannot express their thoughts. Exhibition of their
views towards the society, their dreams will be curtailed. Their talents will
be latent forever. Suddenly, my childhood days came to memories. The days I
miss terribly. When I was a school student, we had many activities that kindled
our talents and made us to emerge out with flying colors.
At the
end of our English classes, our master used to give a new word. Our task is to
find the synonym and antonym of the word given and a sentence has to be framed.
There will be a poetry contest every week. The imagination and the thought
process of the children will be portrayed. This will be the source of
inspiration for the budding Wordsworth and Keats. And similar to many other
schools, we too had sports classes to make the body fit. It also motivates the
students to win gold for the nation in Olympics. The class monitor will be
changed periodically so as to train the students to manage the people. And so
the future business magnets will be qualified in management skills.
Thus
creativity played a vital part in our school life. It brushed away the stage
fear in us. We dint study just the text books. We applied the matter given in
our books practically. There were many multimedia classes for Physics that made
us to think and explore beyond the blue yonder. Every lesson in the science
book was dealt practically in the labs. The answers in our own script relevant
to the subject were encouraged. We were not as monotonous as today’s kids are. The test papers were evaluated only for the
understanding of concepts. Not every word in the paper was compared to that of
the text book. So, I would like to say,
“The children should be taught how to think and not what to
think”
“Learning gives creativity,
Creativity leads to thinking,
Thinking provides you knowledge and
Knowledge makes you great” says Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Will the institutions that run behind marks and state-ranks understand these words and kindle the thirst for “KNOWLEDGE” in students???
“Learning gives creativity,
Creativity leads to thinking,
Thinking provides you knowledge and
Knowledge makes you great” says Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Will the institutions that run behind marks and state-ranks understand these words and kindle the thirst for “KNOWLEDGE” in students???
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