Education and Ethical Education
By Moti Lal Khar
Tension and confusion is
building up when and where
the students are preparing for
their different examinations
to pass the tests creditably. The entire
year is being spent in studies to get
good marks. It has not reached its peak
with students spending sleepless
nights even taking pills to stay awake
to cram and some students soar while
others can not and in despair commit
suicides!
Having been in the teaching
profession for more than three
decades, the present writer wants to
drive some home truths about the
present system of education. Both
teachers and parents lay much
emphasis of academic side of the
studies to get good division to earn
wealth in the country or abroad,
ignoring the other co-curricular and
extra-curricular activities including
ethical and moral aspect of education.
One must be exceptionally well in
examination even at the cost of one’s physical and mental health. It has
been observed that many overage
students with right environment both
at home and at school have actually
gone on to do well in life as compared
to those who passed
their examination with
credit. What will
happen if the students
do not do well in the
examination? Will the
world come to an end?
Why to commit suicides
which is a crime! Let all students
along with their teachers and parents
realize this fact. In order to live life
well and to succeed in the test of life
one does not need to be proficient in
learning by rote to get degrees which
are mere scrap of papers! Each and
every person is born with his or her
unique talent and we as teachers and
parents need to recognize this talent
of the child at the initial stage to help
students to develop their traits and
talents by offering them our
understanding, love, confidence and
support, faith, courage and
perseverance.
If we include the teaching of
subjects in schools like inter-faith,
peace and ethical values of human life
into the present system of education,
it will enhance the child’s innate ability to make positive contribution to the well being of peers, family,
community and society at large, which
in turn will help to enhance sense of
peace and justice. Peace education is
a matter of attitude, it is not a set of
dogmas that have to be taught by mere cramming; it is the entire approach to
life for global citizenship, social justice
and peaceful linkage with civil society
to curb the present violence which we
see in the world at present. Ethics is
about life as human beings, about
relationships, about living together in
peace and harmony as we depend on
each other for survival. Ethics, faith
and peace mean appreciation of
beauty. It is striving for truth, pursuit
of justice and for spirituality where
children will be taught to be the future
citizens of the world in the real sense.
Source: Milchar
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