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by J. Ajithkumar |
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Time is required for learning anything and for anything there is a time to learn. Obvious consequences await a 90 year old trying to learn karate and a 10 year old attempting to fly a jet. Learning should be a continuous process in life and at each phase one should attempt only those which are appropriate for that age. It is part of a natural process and anyone who attempts to bypass the system end up with failures and disappointments. Learning the correct skills at the correct time in life is often the success factor for most of the leaders in our society. Those who have chosen not to learn the required skills at the right time fail exactly like those who choose to attempt the right skills, but at the wrong time in their lives. Prodigies and Geniuses Another feature common among the (Indian) middle class is to present their children as achievers without being strugglers. Many times I have heard parents (mostly middle class economically and socially) talking boastfully about their children doing extremely well in exams without taking any extra efforts in doing so. The point they want to make is that the results would have been much better had there been a little more effort. In most cases there is a conscious collective effort to cover up the real time spend by the child in getting what he/she has got and thus capture the appreciation for doing so well with so little efforts. In the process, the child ends up reaching the faulty conclusion that achieving results without working hard is the most appreciated feat. Implications of extending this wrong notion to all areas of life can be disastrous for the individual and the society at large. Children should be taught that hard work alone will bring results and there is no escape from it whether one is extremely intelligent or not. Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration or luck. Absolutely, there is no substitute for hard work. Futile Learning If there is one faculty of our brain that is very little susceptible to development after youth, it is the ability to speak. Some children start speaking early and some others a bit late. It may sound simple, but speaking is much more than making sounds. A lot of coordination and effort are required in the brain and face to make even simple sounds. A list of activities that facilitate a coherent and logical public speech for one hour will itself run into numerous pages. Our ordinary politicians may look unimpressive in looks but their abilities to speak make them extra ordinary. Public speaking is a gift of nature to a select few and those who aspire to acquire it with a few days of training are not being realistic. Personality development and writing poems are some of the other areas where the teaching predators make money out of an ambitious few. Realistic Learning |
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02-May-2004 | ||
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