What
I am today is the product of education which I got not from the school but from
my family, relatives, friends and teachers. I do not remember what I studied in
the school but the values and the abilities I have is the outcome of my good
education. Though I might not have got a good content knowledge but I am proud
that I have a good education. As stated by Albert Einstein, “Education is what
remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school”, the real goal
of education is not necessarily the mastery of the subject matter, but mastery
of one’s person. The aim of education should be to develop a life-long love for
learning.
The love and care I got motivated
me to learn everything with interest and understanding. I might not remember
the exact words, the poems and the stories taught but the impact of the moral
has turned me to be loving human being. These values have encouraged me and I
have come up with my own principles of life among which helping the needy is
prior to all.
As
Montagu brings out the point “we don’t understand that we need to grow up into
children and not adult”, I feel he is very true. The amazing qualities of the
children are to be preserved by all. Children
are capable of learning anything, what they need is just the appropriate
environmental condition. They are always curious and wonder of anything that
happens in the world. We should give them enough love and support for their
interest to learn. Every man is born great, only that they do not retain their
greatness when they grow big. An adult resists the kid in him and eventually
kills it, the most perfect gift of nature, so that he might fit well in the
system of his so-called civilized society. Rather we should always be like
children and preserving the traits.
During
my apprenticeship I had a student who was looked down by the school, society
and even her own family. Digging her history, I found that she was once the topper
of the class. Some unfavorable circumstance made everyone look down upon her
hence her self-respect was diminished, hampering even her academic
performances. I was friendly with all my students sharing love and care for them
and I used this to drive them forward and inspired them to become the best they
can be. I think this behavior of mine made her comfortable and one day she asked
me if she can call me brother. Thinking to change her life, I tried my best to
be a good brother, and still in the process, counseling and helping her out of
this circumstance. I make calls and ask about her to her present teachers and
found a vast change in her. Every child has an individual difference which we
as a teacher should identify and help them to be a loving human being.
“A child educated only at school is an
uneducated child”~George Santayana
well said
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