parent - teacher venture

Filling the gap in the learning process

ducation is called the engine of society. Education isresponsible for every thing that happens within the individual or in the society. The beauty of it is that it takes place everywhere; not only in the class rooms.
Parents are said to be the first educators of a child. Education begins at birth. Parents are responsible for the education of the child. They should acquire the qualities of a good educator. Otherwise they become the cause of ruining the life of the child. Children observe their parents and from them they pick up values, attitudes and behaviour patterns.
It has become very common for parents to blame the teachers for every mistake of their children. It is also quite common that the teachers blame the parents for not sufficiently caring for their children. As a result of shirking each other’s responsibility as educators, the child loses the chance of real education.
The plus-two or higher secondary stage signifies a major transition in a learners’ life. By the time they reach this threshold, they show early signs of independent thinking, awareness of their own needs and a general sensitivity to life’s greater challenges.
For the parents, it is a period of great anxiety. We are familiar with the "admission mania" which is reported in the press : parents suffer as their children struggle to cope with the great demand-supply hiatus in-so-far as seats in prestigious engineering, medical and general colleges go.
But the growing children of the 17-19 age group go through much more. Nature and the Indian socio-economic reality pull them in opposite directions.
They are the quintessential teenagers - self-conscious, grappling to internalise life’s manifold complications, have a strong sense of likes and dislikes, tend to develop attraction towards adventure and is under strong peer pressure to emulate the general trends. Their parents, however, want them to be disciplined, focussed on the career and stay away from needless "distractions".
After all, they remind them night and day that it is a highly competitive world. To educationists, the higher secondary stage is not a mere interregnum between school and college, but also between adolescence and youth. It means handling someone delicate, tender and priceless.
The teacher is best poised to offer the only professional guidance and neutral counselling a growing child can get at this important stage in his life. The teacher has to help the adolescents choose their own future. But in this task, the teacher’s role too has its limitations.
It is the task of the parents to fill the gap. Te parents should help the student to choose academic curriculum and courses so that the students are able to pursue their goals in life with adequate options at their disposal. Students should not only be offered flexibility in terms of choice, but also in pace of learning. In our case, it very much remains the archaic way of doing things.
Parents must join hand s with the teachers to remove the burden involved in education. A smooth facilitation from both will help the students nurture all the good things they learnt.
The problems of rigidity that afflict the present system can be cured only by the infusion of greater and greater flexibility. Student life is a dynamic period and the system must respond to it.