Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Educating Differently

If we think why this world is full of crime, corruption, wars etc the answer may vary depending upon person and circumstances but one thing that none can ignore is the fact that there is something wrong with our education system. In ancient India the general people use to read and understant Puran.  Puran is an sanskrit term which can be translated as mythology. There are 18 Puran and many sub purans. While going through the purans the most striking feature we can notice is its profound sublimity by which great abstract truth were made to be understood to greneral people. These day we can see the number of book a small child takes which can break his backbone. These books conveys only information and nothing more than that, rather to say practically, the memorizing system of education compromises on the creative ability of our young brains. By reading through puran a  students learns a little of history, geography, behaviours & etiquettes, morality & ethics and also the tendency of writing is to open up immature minds twoards higher creativity. Morality and Ethics are emphases a lot which helps bring in some order in the society in long term. Also the style of writing is like a story which is interesting and can be understood easily. Compared to this the present education system emphasies the least in manners , morality which is the core of the human being. The downgrading of the moral side of educators is also contributing a lot to increase in the criminal figures of our country. Rather then having a lot of books we can try having having a book like puran which could imbibe some core values to child brain and also give a push to increase his intellectual ability.