tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9766640.post110476637804312177..comments2024-03-24T10:29:28.588+05:30Comments on like a feather....: An essay I wrote a while ago...Erotemehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677513867884448593noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9766640.post-1133333551792632642005-11-30T12:22:00.000+05:302005-11-30T12:22:00.000+05:30@Eroteme: Quite flawless as a broad concept regard...@Eroteme: Quite flawless as a broad concept regarding Education and connected things.<BR/><BR/>My concerns are: <BR/><BR/>1. How will an idealistic environment / education / educators / school ever give them that toughness that is mandatorily needed to handle the real world of ruthlessness, loudness, aggression? - This non-artistic, non-beautiful but almost always ugly, dangerous, quite criminal, quite canny world of reality? Just meeting personalities that are actually in these fields and knowing about reality is not actually like facing a breathing and alive reality..<BR/><BR/>The student might have the competent knowledge needed to do things efficiently; but I am truly concerned about his inner qualifications to conquer the real difficult world. <BR/><BR/>Do enlighten me.<BR/><BR/>2.In this fast paced world, hope such deliberate dedication to education is made possible in your school. That would automatically restrict the number of students in it I think. And since a lot of heads and hearts are involved in the nurturing a single student, there would be a need for a lot of time and patience and passion to the goal of the school too. <BR/><BR/>Seems like a tall order - but again, once these ingredients are internalised and institutionalised, they would happen as a matter of course. And the good school would not be an exceptional condition that happens rarely, but the common societal institution, just as the next one or the third one too would be.<BR/><BR/>3. And another thing - I think that along with the moral and the philosophical education, there is a dire need for spiritual education too. There is a need for true spiritually well developed teachers who will be able to educate the students, instil in them and make intrinsic of them what spirituality is, how it is as different from morality and philosophy and religion as cats are different from dogs, how to incorporate all spiritual truths and experiences into all levels of life without a severe breakdown of the harmony and continuum of a living and thriving society and family and nation and world - all these have to be taught with great care, without confusing the students,but leading to enlightenment and a great clarity in mind, emotions and attitudes, and eventually therefore a much much better life, than would have been the case if the children hadnt had a good spiritual education too..<BR/><BR/>4. And most importantly, how are your children going to get jobs in the outside world when there are no passing out grades / competitive ranking? They will anyway have to compete in competitive exams maybe conducted by employers. <BR/><BR/>Well, I suppose this concern of mine is almost like the first concern of mine of balancing idealism with reality and if the child has been a good student, I am sure he would be able to get into any organisation..<BR/><BR/>Ok Ignore this point of concern of mine..<BR/><BR/>What ideas of yours did I truly like in this post?<BR/><BR/>1. The collapsible desks, of course! Though how they will fall plum on the floor noiselessly, and be flush with the floor without ups and downs, with no exciting and dangerous trips and falls of small children , will be a consideration for a master-furniture designer-carpenter-design engineer indeed! We need a veritable Da Vinci here...<BR/><BR/>2. And I do like the fact that you realised the need for a common ground between the parents and teachers as far as the students are concerned, so that there is no clash of different value systems - one at school and the other at home. It reminds me of the first paragraph in Hermann Hesse's book 'The Glass Bead Game', "Like many other pupils of the elite schools, he either lost his parents early in childhood, or the Board of Educators removed him from unfavourable home conditions and took charge of him. In any case, he was spared the conflict between elite school and home which complicates youth of many other boys of his type, makes entry into The Order more difficult, and in some cases transforms highly gifted young people into problem personalities."<BR/><BR/>3. School timings too - 7 am to 7 pm; AAAH - A veritable heaven for parents, I am not so sure about the students though; maybe for them too, in this school that they find joy in being and studying in.<BR/><BR/>Hmmm. Quite a delectable post! Really! Enjoyed it a lot...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com