How to groom a child in the field of education

child's life is like a blank sheet of paper, which, by time starts bearing the mark A of anyone taking an active part in its life” – Chinese proverb A botheration that weighs heavily upon a person at the twilight of his life is not that of financial nor of any other resources, but it is of his child and the quality of his child that is capable of impacting generations to come. How many parents have the brains to realise such huge responsibility that is on their shoulders ?. It is a prominent state of mind nowadays in society to take financial resourcefulness to be a prime factor to face anything in life. Is that securing a job is the “be-all” and “end-all” of life ?. What kind of generation would it create..? And so long as we nourish and guide them keeping with our wishes the child learns everything by default without even realising what are its heart-felt desires. These superimposed false identities will become an unnecessary burden at a point of time when it realises its passion deep down. This realisation stamps down mercilessly the spark to fly high and achieve greater things and condemn him to live in his self-made prison. The driving force or the motivation must always be inward.

Spirituality or any science of self-strengthening cannot be imposed forcefully. It has to sprung from inside, like a perennial source of strength, so deep, so forceful. Education, a suitable job and a life style that economically enables him to meet the end is all fair until a disaster, until the fate of hand decides to crush him. It is all good until life is a bed of roses, but when roses turn into thorns, he must have the grit to fight through the difficulties, and endure the pains. This cannot be achieved by the “educational stuff” that is thrusted upon, which makes him internally weaker instead of moulding him in a stronger way. There was once a butterfly after passing its larval stage, was on the stage of pupa and all its growth cycles are achieved inside the pupa, for an outside observer it appears as if the butterfly is struggling to get out of it, once a merciful man happened to see this and took it to struggle of butterfly, and in the act of saving the butterfly took out the underdeveloped the butterfly, thereby arresting its whole cycle of development. Though an age old story, there is an undeniable truth underlying in it. We are like that merciful man in the act of helping out the children are arresting their metamorphosis. The development happens only through the hard way, through sweat, toil and pains. As there is an old English Proverbs “A smooth sea never makes a skilful mariner”. It must spring from inside, and it will spring from inside only when the education is after their hearts desire, and based on their inborn capabilities.