IMPORTANCE OF GOOD SCHOOLING

 “Life is beautiful and it would not have been beautiful without schooling”.

True it is. Our lives are beautiful, lovely, satisfactory and successful because we have got good schooling, and we had been provided with a golden opportunity to have our studies in good schools and those ‘Alma Mater’ has shown the path of leading to the stunning winnings and approving victories. The schools exert great influence upon us. They shape our character, mould our mental attitudes and fashion the basic principles of life. Thanks to our schools and parents!

GOOD SCHOOLING

Good Schooling is essential for every society and individual. It is life itself but not a preparation for life. Man has various qualities. School life is but a preparation to face the challenges that the bigger school called ‘world’ will offer us when we are left out on the road of life land walk on.

For many of us, the days spent in schools are the happiest and the best days of our life. The very memory of school days fills our minds with longing memories of happy days of yester years.  

School is a meeting place of students and teachers. In this temple of learning, a student learns the ‘life-skills’ of living in the in the society needed for the later part of life. Forgetting their joys and sorrows, they read together, play together and sit together, cherishing and shaping their future dreams.

School is the right place for the fulfillment of the youthful desires. Students take part in games and sports, drama, essay competition, song and debate competitions etc. School also gives the foundation for the budding poets, scientists, writers, doctors, engineers, painters and musicians. It is in school that the students enjoy the affection of their teachers.

Teachers act as the guides and guardians to guide them on the right path. In school, teachers try to remove the evils from the students by sowing some seeds of good qualities in them.

In library, debate class and in competitions, students get proper scope to improve their knowledge and style. Above all, in examinations, they try to show their brilliant performance.

School has definitely a healthy influence upon students. But some students indulge in bad company and get away from the impact of their teachers. Those students miss the charm of their school life.

TEACHERS’ ROLE

Students when they are entering into the school in the morning are crying vigorously. But they are getting out of the school enjoying. It reflects that something that is not interested to the students is happening in the school or the school does not provide the love, belongingness and safety to them as like their home.

If the teacher is unsuccessful, then for most children, school life means

• Most irritating moment – morning alarm

• Most difficult task – to find socks

• Most dreadful journey – way to class

• Most lovely time – meeting friends and playing with friends

• Most tragic moments – surprise test in the1^st period

• Most wonderful news – Teacher is absent

Role of A Good Teacher

Teacher is the second parent to a child and their responsibility at school is in no way lesser than the mother at home. I wish that I narrate a story

A teacher by the name Mrs. Thompson entered the class for the first time and she had this habit of starting the class by saying “Love You All.” But she knew she was lying, because she could not feel that love for one of the students in the class who was very unkempt, untidy and there was nothing in the child that drew attention for Mrs. Thompson who was a little indifferent to the child. She picked him for every negative example and ignored him for all the positive reasons. That year she had written the progress report for the first quadrant and it was the system in the school that the Headmistress had to countersign every progress report.

The headmistress called for Mrs. Thompson and told Mrs. Thompson that a progress report should report some progress. It should make a parent feel my child has a future. The way you have written the progress report for TEDDY (that is how he was called) parents will give up on Teddy. Mrs. Thompson immediately said, there is nothing I can do. I have nothing positive to write about that child. Immediately the headmistress asked the administrative staff of the school Teddy to trace the old year progress reports of Teddy and send it across to Mrs. Thompson’s class.

Mrs. Thompson saw the third standard progress report and the final remark was written, Teddy is the brightest child in the class. She was stunned by what she read. She saw the fourth standard progress report and progressively all the remarks suggested that Teddy’s mother was suffering from terminal cancer. She is not able to give the attention she used to give to Teddy and it is just beginning to show up on the performance of Teddy.

The fifth standard progress report read Teddy has lost his mother and along with it himself. He desperately needs help, otherwise we will lose this child. By then, there were tears in the eyes of Mrs. Thompson. She looked at the Principal and said I know what to do and she went back to the class.  She walked into the class and again from the dais she looked at the class and said love you all. But she knew she was lying, the love she was feeling for TEDDY right now was far far greater than the rest of the class. She decided that she was going to change her approach. For every positive reason, Teddy’s name was called. There was no more a negative reference to the whole thing.

The last day of the school came. All the children had brought some gifts for the teacher. There was only one gift which was wrapped up in an old newspaper. Somehow, with the sense of a teacher could knew that this must be from Teddy. She opened it up first. A half used perfume bottle and a bracelet from which a few stones had already fallen were there. The whole class laughed knowing it was from Teddy. But without saying anything, Mrs. Thompson just took that half used perfume bottle, sprayed it on her, and wore that bracelet. With a smile Teddy told, now you smell like my mother. This is the last perfume that she used before she left me and this is what was removed from her body before she was taken into the coffin.

One year later,  at end of the year, there was a letter on Mrs. Thompson’s table. I have seen a few more teachers, but still you are the best teacher I have ever seen. With love, Teddy. Every year till the end of school Mrs. Thompson used to get this letter from Teddy, I have seen a few more teachers, but you are the best teacher I have ever seen, Teddy. Years rolled by, they lost contact. Somewhere an agent traced Mrs. Thompson who had retired by now and handed over a letter and the letter signed Dr. Theodore, Ph.D. Teddy had gone on to become a Ph.D. and the letter read “I have seen many more people in life Mrs. Thompson, this is your Teddy, still you are the best teacher I have ever seen.

 I am getting married and I cannot dream of getting married without your presence. Along with it were enclosed to and fro flight tickets. Mrs. Thompson could not resist. She no more had the perfume bottle, but she still preserved the bracelet. She wore that and went to the church. She was going to sit in the last row but a volunteer identified her and ushered her right to the front row. And right in the front row there was a seat with a card written mother. Theodore personally asked Mrs. Thompson to sit in the chair and whispered, “you are the closest to my mother that I have ever experienced, and whatever I am today it is because of you mam”. The wedding happened and after the wedding Theodore introduced Mrs. Thompson to his newly wedded wife “without her I wouldn’t be where I am today.” There were tears in Theodore’s eyes.

Mrs. Thompson told the newly wedded woman, “Without him I would have never realized a teacher must first be a mother to every student of hers and only then a teacher.” So I would like to say to the teachers, “When you go back to school, there may be a Teddy in your class and you could be that Mrs. Thompson. Go back as a parent who can also be a parent and be a turning point in the life of your children.”

Hope, now we have understood the value of the role of teachers!

IMPORTANCE OF GOOD SCHOOLING

I.          In the life of an individual child

1.      Develops the Inborn Potentialities:

Schooling helps the child to develop the inborn potentialities of child providing scope to develop.

2.      Modifies the Behaviour:

Schooling helps to modify the past behaviour through learning and through different agencies of education.

3.      Develops the child as a whole (All-round Development):

Schooling aims at the all round development of a child-physical, mental, social,  emotional, and spiritual.

4.      Prepares for the Future/Life:

After completion of schooling the child can earn its livelihood getting proper education, which has productivity. The education should be imparted according to the own interest of the child.

5.      Develops Personality:

The whole personality of the child is developed physically, intellectually, morally, socially, aesthetically and spiritually. He is recognized in the society.

6.      Socializes the child:

Man differs from beast. Man has reasoning and thinking power. Man tries his best to adjust with his own environment through education.

7.      Build Character:

School is not just about learning concepts; it is also a place where a foundation can be built for becoming upstanding adults. Every school should set a tone of respect, honesty and genuine kindness for all students. Whether they like it or not, teachers are role models for students and can provide examples of good character every day in the classroom. Students’ notice what teachers do, say, tolerate, and how they handle challenges. However, character building can also be done proactively through planned actions and activities within the classroom. These classroom activities will encourage students to develop and adopt quality ethical principles and behaviours that can last far beyond the classroom.

8.      Give the skills of dealing with the environment:

In the school, a child comes across different students with different attitudes and character and this helps them to deal with the world at large and helps to adapt themselves in the future.

9.      Achieves of Self-Realization & Self sufficiency:

In the school the students are able to realize their full potential either by the help of the teacher or friends and they learn to be sufficient with what they have.

10. Makes the man civilized:

Schooling makes the child sociable and civilized. He makes friends with different students of varying religion, caste, social status etc.

II.        Importance of good schooling towards society:

1.      Social Change and Control: The society is never stationary. It is progressive and dynamic. The child lives in society. It is the social environment where the personality of the child can be developed. The old traditions, customs are preserved and transmitted with the situations, which are ever changing. We should not think or believe in the blind beliefs, which are hindrances towards our development. Schooling helps to walk with the development of science and technology.

2.      Reconstruction of Experiences: Education is a life-long process. Life is education and education is life. Life is full of experiences. One cannot live with his past experiences. So, education helps the individual to reconstruct the experience and adjust with the environment.

3.      Development of Social and Moral Value: Society is always in tension with narrowism. There is no social or moral value. Now the man is behaving like an animal. Animality can be changed with moral education. Schooling teaches the moral value and social value like co-operation, tolerance, sympathy, fellow feelings, love affection, respect towards elder, helping the poor and needy persons.

4.      Providing Opportunity or Equality: Indian Constitution has introduced the term ‘equality’ because we are not getting equal opportunities in all aspects. Schooling teaches us to give equal opportunities in all aspects irrespective of caste, creed, colour, sex and religion.

III. Importance of good schooling towards nation:

1.      Inculcation of Civic and Social Responsibility: Education helps to make rising generation to understand its rights and duties as citizens of a democratic country.

2.      Training for Leadership: The leadership quality of the individual is developed when he participates in all spheres of social, political, religious and educational activities.

3.      National Integration: We are living in a country having diversities in respect of colour, caste, language, diet, dress, habits and physical environment. Educational integration leads to emotional integration. Education trains people for unity, not for locality, for democracy and not for dictatorship. School serves the most important end of educating the man.

4.      Total National Development: Education helps for bringing about total national development by developing its all aspects i.e. social, economic, cultural, spiritual, moral, educational, etc.

Therefore, really schooling is an essential ingredient for all ages and stages of the life of an individual, society as well as the nation. Schooling can be a real panacea for all social evils.

CONCLUSION

School life is very important part of one's life, because it provides opportunity for study and discipline. Besides these, the school life is a preparatory stage for entering public life. School plays an important role in widening the out­look of students. Virtues such as perseverance, sincerity, truthfulness, tolerance, discipline and obedience developed in pupils. School provides opportunity to the students to be disciplined. They show discipline in classroom, play ground, hostel, and library at other places.

It is commonly presumed that formal schooling is one of several important contributors to the skills of an individual and to human capital. It is not the only factor. Parents, individual abilities and friends undoubtedly contribute. Schools nonetheless have a special place, not only because education and ‘skill creation’ are among their prime explicit objectives, but also because they are the factor most directly affected by public policies. It is well established that the distribution of personal incomes in society is strongly related to the amount of education people have had. Generally speaking more schooling means higher lifetime incomes. These outcomes emerge over the long term. It is not people’s income while in school that is affected, nor their income in their first job, but their income over the course of their working life. Thus, any noticeable effects of the current quality of schooling on the distribution of skills and income will become apparent some years in the future, when those now in school become a significant part of the labour force

A person becomes perfect with education as he is not only gaining something from it, but also contributing to the growth of a nation. To achieve this there must be a collective and cooperative effort of students, teachers and parents.

WISHING

I wish that this school is marching towards success of the all students in collaboration with teachers, parents! I am really happy to learn this school has a very good beginning on this Foundation Day! I appreciate the management for  taking time and energy to orient the teachers on the ‘Importance of Good Schooling’ and the fruit of this well-organized orientation is achieved only when you begin loving your students, profession, your school and above all yourself.

Wishing you all the best in all aspects of prosperity and success, and thanking the Management for providing this golden opportunity of meeting the school kids, teachers and parents, May I seek God’s Blessings on all of you.

Thank You..!