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we need to build, but the whole curriculum shoukld be such
that the overall personality of the students develop. These
days, teachers are well recognizing the fact that teaching
is not about helping students score well, it is rather about
helping them build their understanding about everything.
Children are full of latent potential. All they need is
a little nudge from a good mentor, which generally is the
teacher. A good teacher knows that her students have a
great capacity to understand- if not science and maths,
then the languages; if not languages, then Art, Music or
Sport! Their role is to help them build a vision and nourish
it with their support. Talent seed comes from home, but it
buds up to be a fl owerng plant and a fruit bearing tree at
school and college level.
.Peter Drucker’s Management by objectives or MBO is
an approach, considered to be one of the best ways towards
decisiveness. In school standards at global level, academic
Olympiads establish competitive spirit among the YOLO
generation and develop curiosity to fi nd ways to advance.
In the Indian context, the primary up till secondary
education is designed to harvest with all the necessary
subjects that give the basic understanding to students and
later at the high school level, they are given the choice
for the stream they wish to opt- Commerce, Science,
Computers or Humanities.. But, for a lot of students, this
is dubious. Sometimes, they choose a particular fi eld out of
their interest, but their aptuitude does not support them.
Sometimes, they choose their subjects because they have
been told that their aptitude lies in it, but their interest
ditches them. Other times, they pick a stream by their
parents’ choice and their attitude towards it fails them.
This gap is strong and becoming much stronger in the
recent arena. For example, We wll fi nd many engineering,
management and medical students have been found to be
prominent even in other fi elds of art, literature, music
and philosophy. Nevertheless, this is the value addition
with reference to latent talent vis a vis the pathfi nding
approaches in the middle of their career. Though, this shows
the strength and values of an individual that they learn in
the beginning of their studies. Here plays a major role of
curriculum to make a clear mindset of students towards
career mapping and contribution in the respective fi eld.
The gap of the career deviations and fi lling it exactly
with the value fi llers is important. When we fi ll it with
values, the right cognitive, affective and behavioural
components automatically get etched to it. This helps the
youth to build the right base for the future.
In the war fi elds, soldiers perform and then at a time,
they retire or take voluntary retirement. Even after that
they do something productive towards the national interest.
This attitude is in fact a universal interest per se, for every
citizen, across any country and could indirectly weigh for
high worth. Sports, corporate, banking and other fi elds
also have their own signifi cance for shaping the nations
goodwill.
The biggest gap of deviation from profession can be
decreased by imparting strong values and commitment
in school education. This intervention solely cannot be
implemented but a committee on higher education can
create such opportunities for school students, while
considering the scope and limitations found after research
and development. A few measures that directly relate to the
future context are:
1. School policies advised to be based on strong Research
& Development (R&D) recommendations.
2. Ethics as core values – Ethics as a subject as well as a
check on student’s morality ground while considering their
families in interactions.
3. Technology as a compulsory component that has
already been adopted by several schools.
4. In shaping at macro level, it needs right change
interventions and management. Former CEO and chairman
of General Electric, said it very well - ‘‘If the rate of change
on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the
end is near.’’
5. Curriculum design and timely modifications are
strongly recommended.
6. A total personality evaluation alongwith the adoption
of compulsory aptitude tests for all students.
7. Parent Teacher Meeting not just for sharing the
result and complaints, but for discussions with them about
what would they want their children to be. How are they
contributing at home to ensure punctulity, nation building
and service thought and the corrective measures for their
child’s unacceptable behaviour.
8. Sensitization sessions for parents, teachers and
students for eductional empowerment and rights and duties
as citizens of a nation.
Though, here the biggest harrowing factor is the
commercialization of education. Nevertheless, maximum
private school chains have refurbished their system,
keeping in mind the overall development of the children,
including the monitoring of ethical values. Interventions
on the part of govenment include projects such as ‘Right to
education’ and ‘Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan’.. Still the future of
the nation is required to mitigate in developing the mental
revolution again from the talent seeds and nourishing them.
It should be a ‘think big’ phenomenon to bring the education
system out from the dark. P & M
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