The basic underlying philosophy of primary education is that it should foster ethical and moral values in the child so they can become ethical and responsible citizens of the nation, which help in nation building. This is the true goal of education and for this basic reason so much emphasis is given to primary education. It is primarily education, which makes humans different from animals and teach them to live in society peacefully. For living peacefully in society, human must have respect and love for others. Person can respect and love others if they have sound ethical and moral value and these values are nurtured through primary education.
The role of higher education is although in tandem with primary education but more complicated and comprehensive. Role of higher education is not readily comprehensible by ordinary human. But to put in simple words it can be said that role of higher education is to make person more responsible and ethical towards the society. The person who is highly educated should always work towards betterment of the society, nation and world. They should make a world a better place to live on. Persons who are highly educated should sacrifice themselves for the betterment of the society and world. For this reason higher education is meant for only few persons that is for those whose mind are highly developed and they think for society rather than for self.
But most of us are totally unaware of the role of education. They think higher education is a way to earn higher pays/salaries. Most of us tie our selfish means with education and therefore are ready to do anything for getting higher education. For these reasons, fees of institution providing higher education are so high. On the other hand person after getting higher education, person runs blindly after money. So all these things have resulted in commercialization of education.
In this blind run we also want to put primary education in align with these materialistic and selfish goal. We often think that only role of primary education is to develop base for higher education. However this thinking is totally wrong, frivolous and selfish. It is again stressed that role of primary education is to develop responsible and ethical citizen for nation who care and respect others. If humans cannot live peacefully among themselves then how can societies be sustained for long run? There would always be quarrel, war, crimes, inequality, distress, hue and cry, etc. And this is what happening nowadays. For the very same reason, nowadays the researchers and academicians as a solution to all these non–ending problems have prominently turned their attention on disciplines like social responsibility, philanthropy, corporate responsibility, ethics, etc.
No doubt that primary education build base for higher education but this is not only objective of primary education. It is one of the many objectives of primary education. As many countries have understood this concept so they have made failing in the primary school illegal and treat it as corporal punishment since these practices will hinder the growth and development of child. As per UNICEF discipline is necessary but discipline should not be achieved through punishments. If punishments are given to children, then wrong and unethical feeling develops in children and they start thinking that coercion and force is one of the effective ways to achieve means. Building of this tendency in childhood is very wrong and unethical.
In India, there is little awareness about education and we Indians think that education is a way to earn higher pays and salaries so we blindly run for it without knowing the true value of education. For this reason many of people are still debating Right to Education Act because they think that if children are barred from failing in primary classes so how can their base is developed for higher education and how can they compete in higher education. But all these conceptions are baseless. Higher education is only meant for those beautiful and natural minded people who want to sacrifice themselves for the welfare of society and nation and not for everyone. However we think off higher education as a way to earn high pays and salaries and for this reason we put undue pressure on our children, unaware of the fact that they are not made for it. Even if these children can get higher education then they will not prove beneficial for anyone. They tend to misuse their capability and capacity and as a consequence there is widespread of corruption in a nation. As we observed that how many of Indian official sitting at higher post are levied with charges of corruption. Therefore obtaining higher education just for selfish reason is not going to benefit anyone. So the solution is to give primary education to everyone and higher education should be reserved only for children who have shown and developed extra ordinary capabilities during primary education and develop them in such a way so they become useful asset for the nation. This is very thorough and comprehensive responsibility, which can only be achieved through combined efforts of government, educational institution and citizens.
With such philosophy it is totally wrong to fail any child during primary education since by doing this we are doing wrong against our nation since we are hindering in development of child into ethical and responsible citizen. Supreme Court had done wrong in exempting unaided minority institutions from Right to Education Act since in this way they have give power to unaided minority school to fail or expel the child studying in their school which is totally wrong, unethical, unjust and against the interest of the nation.
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From: Jagjit Ahuja <jagjit.ahuja@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Child Rights are Shams in India
To: "indiaresists@lists.riseup.net" <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net>
Today Schools have become the most commercial establishments to mint money without doing their job.There is a need to monitor the strengths and weaknesses of every child as a part of their curriculum .In such cases Teachers also need to be made Accountable , Responsible and above all Transparent to bring out the valid reasons for their failure particularly in academics . The most important is to seek the opinion of the School Authorities that how far the change will come by not promoting the child if they do not have required strengths .Brig J S AhujaOn Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Vishal Pandey <pandey.vishal@icai.org> wrote:
Ankit, here I would clarify you that not all children become doctors, engineers, etc. The higher education is only for the students who wish to obtain it, and it should only be given on merit basis. However the goal of primary education is not to acquire special knowledge but to make children a responsible citizens of a country who are aware of their rights and duties. By learning complex formula in mathematics or science one would not become responsible citizen of country. If this would happen then all officials sitting at higher posts would have been very honest, responsible and sincere. But this is not case. The role of primary education is to culminate ethical values in child. The role of primary education is completely different from higher education. Foreign countries have understood this concept so they have make primary education compulsory and expressly barred failing of student in primary classes and treating it as corporal punishment. But in India, philosophy is different. People in India still think that role of primary education is to prepare children for higher education. But people fail to understand that this role is only one of the many roles of primary education. We have copied the concept of Right to Education from foreign but still do not know its basic underlying philosophy therefore still debating this concept.
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> On 28-Jun-2014, at 6:54 pm, Ankit Khetan <ankkhe2002@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
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> Sorry but I don't agree with your view. Failing a child should not be included in the corporal punishment. If the child is not able to understand the basic subject & by promoting him/her you are asking to give higher knowledge will be actually a mental pressure for the child. Yes the valid reason for the failure may be questioned but 1st promoting the child without his/her strength then demanding reservation for the child is the ill logic.
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>> On Jun 27, 2014 5:32 PM, Vishal Pandey <pandey.vishal@icai.org> wrote:
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>> Child rights have just become shams in India. The incident here relates to unaided minority schools, which have been granted exemption from RTE Act by the Supreme Court of India. This implies that now unaided minority schools enjoy relentless powers in their functioning and they can play havoc with children studying in their school. They can expel the children from their schools; they can give punishment to children of primary classes by failing them and not promoting them to next classes. And all these illegal and unethical acts are held to be legal by our courts. In a recent case is The Frank Anthony Public School, Lajpat Nagar – IV, New Delhi – 110024 – an unaided minority school has failed a child named Himanshu Pandey (12 years old) in class VII. The matter go to High Court of Delhi (Writ Petition Civil No. 3656 of 2014) and court ordered that as school is unaided minority school, RTE Act is not applicable to them so court cannot do anything in this matter.
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>> Failing of children is a corporal punishment since failed students face mental trauma. UNICEF (A UN Body) has defined corporal punishment so as to include mental punishment. By failing children who are below the age of 14, these unaided minority schools are giving corporal punishment to children and nobody can even stop them legally.
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>> It is pertinent to mention that there are so many unaided minority schools (that is Christian Schools, Sikhs Schools, etc.) alone in Delhi and they are affiliated to CBSE and ISC Board and many children are studying in these schools. The children studying in these schools do not come from particular religion but from all religions and categories. This situation has created the ground for unjust treatment of all those children who are studying in these unaided minority institutions. Exemption from RTE Act shall give these schools unfettered power to infringe and breach rights of those children who are already studying in these schools. It is pertinent to mention that these students are the children of India and they have fundamental rights to enjoy all those privileges and rights, which are enjoyed by other children of India. Can any unjust and corporal punishment be given to children merely on the fact that they are studying in these unaided minority schools. This power in the hand of unaided minority schools would create ground for discriminatory and unjust practices against the children studying in these schools.
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>> It is pertinent to mention that there is severe shortage of schools in India especially in Delhi. Due to these shortages, all schools are already in dominant position. Beside this situation, this relentless power that is exemption from RTE in the hand of unaided minority schools make situation worse.
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>> In the end it is pertinent to mention that any form of punishment (i.e. physical or mental) especially to child below the age of 14 is expressly barred everywhere in the world. But in India, courts are expressly allowing it. Are our courts have become so insensitive toward child rights or child rights have just become shams in India.
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>> Copy of High Court Order
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