Modern education has separated the child from God. It is sad, but true. Schools are not imparting
spiritual education to children to mould them into ideal human beings and good citizens
of tomorrow to let them understand the divine scheme of things.
Modern education is in
fact making the child ungodly. That is the reason
why the younger generation today is indulging in anti social activities of most heinous nature. For showing
right path to the child
spiritual education is essential in schools. Little Angels
High School has already made a humble beginning by including the Junior Youth Empowerment
Program & Peace Education Program for the students. By doing so we hope that we shall be able to wean
the
children
away
from
the wrong path in which
they have unfortunately landed themselves for lack of spiritual education.
Education must uncover the ultimate aim of life. There are conflicts and confrontations everywhere.
Families and societies are being affected in the under-current of these confusions. Parents and teachers are equally responsible for the cause of child's darkness. Environment at home and school is making a child's life miserable. Current
education imparted in schools is making children de motivated and rudderless. One goes to school to shape one's life. The source of inspiration for the child should be ideally suited.
The three sources
of knowledge i.e. Home, School and Society should play positive
roles in shaping the future of the child. Money is
needed to run a school.
But opening a school
only to make money is not the right thinking. To keep children
in darkness is a crime. Schools should be considered
as light house of society. But this lighthouse is being turned into a house of darkness. Aim of education
should be to serve the humanity. Education having no aim of serving mankind is meaningless. Education
is a medium that seeks
positive change in the society and, therefore, it should
inspire children to serve the society for its amelioration. 90% of the capacity of a human brain remains
unutilized. This is because
of the lack of facilities to develop the abilities of the child. Therefore there is need for creating
an environment in which children
get better opportunities to utilize their talents and abilities. In the school, a child should feel happy and not scared. Parents see children as prospective earning members and do not hesitate
hence try to infuse unhealthy ethos in them. Current disorganized
education is the root cause of all ills
of the society.
Education should
be such that it must enhance analytical abilities and self-confidence of a child. We must give
a serious thought how to make
education meaningful to develop inner talents and abilities
of a
child and enable him to distinguish between
good and bad. Today's education
is creating confusion
among students. Good education not only develops
self-confidence to face the challenges
of life but also enables the child to
realize his goal. There is no better religion than to do good to others and there is no better compassion than considering others'
troubles as one's own True education shows the right path to the child True
education consists in teaching the child to become virtuous
in both thought and action.
Moral and spiritual regeneration springs from
true education. A morally and spiritually conscious
child will not indulge in crimes nor will he treat others with contempt. Love, compassion and universal brotherhood will mark the style of his living. He will
become a catalyst of social
change. He will keep the society clean and not let it accumulate the evils that have made life miserable
today. When a father builds a house for his sons he would like the house to be kept clean. He will feel happy if his sons maintain cleanliness. He will feel pained if his sons make it dirty. Similarly God feels pained
when his creations cause miseries. Education
has therefore a new role to play.
It has to do a cleaner's job to build a new clean and vibrant global society in which everyone
enjoys equal rights
as a member of one happy and peaceful mankind.
Divine truth should be revealed to students in school: Divine truth should be revealed
to students in school to let them distinguish between
right and wrong. Definition of true
education must be clear to students before they begin learning. Their goal will become clearer
once they have realized what is right
or what is wrong.
Education should make the child a complete
human being The aim of education must be to make the child a true human being who would consider
himself as a member of the entire humanity
and not as a member
of his own community,. religion
or nation. A child brought up in the ethos of good education
will not fight, will not indulge in criminal activities nor will he be inclined
towards the wrong path. The school
has a major role to play in character-building of a child. Good education
inspires the child to become
a good human being. A child is a small brick in the social
edifice of humanity.
Meanwhile family and society will also have to change
themselves in order to set a positive example
to the child since family
and society are also schools
where a child
learns many thing as tools of growing
up. Meaningful education
is the right means through which
a child's character can be shaped
in the desired manner.
Peace Education
in Schools Fortunately more people are c1amouring
for peace today. People
have become sick of wars.
Wars have not solved the problems
of the humanity. Rather wars have aggravated the problems. It appears the time is ripe when children must be educated
to make the world a peaceful place. Universal brotherhood, co-existence and unity of mankind
must constitute the fundamental teachings in schools. Children
must be told about the magnitude of devastations caused by wars in the world. They should be taught in such a way that they may feel disgusted with wars as a means of solving
problems between nations.
More and more opportunities should be provided
to children to meet children
of other continents and nationalities. Once they come to understand that human needs and feelings
are common then they would learn to live
in peaceful co-existence.
Therefore peace education
must form an important component of curriculum in the schools
today.
EDUCATION AS MEANS OF SOCIAL CHANGE AS A MEANS OF SOCIAL CHANGE.
It is needless to say that education alone can bring about a positive social change. Educationists of the world should sit together to chalk out a comprehensive plan for a new education policy
for the entire world. Uniform
pattern of education
in the whole of the World would further accelerate the unification of the world.
Little Angels School students get opportunities
for global
inter-mingling. Our school children
participate at competitions held internationally every year. They get to inter-mingle with children there and make friends. Mutual exchanges between them go on to building
feelings of international
brotherhood. In our own small way we are trying
to sow the seeds of universal brother hood and universal understanding
among children
with the hope that they will learn to live in peaceful
co existence with others. Our aim may be
utopian, but every big idea sounds
utopian in the beginning. Wasn't the idea of landing of man on moon
utopian? Neil Armstrong
ultimately land on moon.....!!!!
Believe us our dream of world unity and world peace will also come true, one day, which is not far away.
Tina Olyai
Director LAHS
Gwalior
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