Children’s day should be celebrated with different styles so as to inculcate discipline, ethics and should make this day special for each and every student by providing them quality education with moral values and need to create a sense of intellectuality among the teenage students or above them,which are pursuing education in the educational institute. We celebrate this day by cutting cakes, holding parties for students as it is a part of children day celebrations but festivities alone cannot fulfill the core and gist of the day. This day is celebrated in the remembrance of first Prime minister of India–Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru.He was not a man who can be commemorated only on political side but he has much affection with children and due to his affectionate behavior and love towards them, he earned the title ‘Chachu Nehru’. On his birthday we are celebrating the Children’s Day. He also used to say that children are the ‘future of our nation’. During his tenure, Nehru focused on improving the education system, developing educational institutes and to provide an environment where children can dream and reach their goal. Today, while children have resources and opportunities to pursue their goal but the guidance, morality and quality education is lacking which is notifying us to maintain the balanced approach through which each and every children could receive these essential foundations. However, by cutting cakes or celebrating only this day will make us the same as we are now in the twenty-first century. In our Union Territory, there was a demand of children as well as of parents to revert the old academic session for Kashmir division and winter zone of Jammu division, and the demand was successfully reverted by the elected government of Jammu and Kashmir. However in my view, these changes are not necessary in academic calendar as we can compromise with the duration of our academic session but without the main motive of quality education will not get sophisticated and satisfied push, neither the November-December session nor March session holds any true significance.
“If teachers are not able to maintain the daily attendance then how we can judge whether the new generation or young minds will excel in innovations and progress. Young minds are like delicate plants, the more we nurture and protect them, the sooner they will yield benefits for society.”
It does not make any sense to agitate or recommend for unnecessary issues as we should move towards main emerging issues. For instance kindergarten classes could include regular grooming sessions and for primary and higher classes should be free online or offline tuition classes and grooming classes or motivational classes (once a month). By implementing these changes, we could easily nurture more individuals with the values and dedication of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. If we adopt these measures to practice in government or private institutions we could easily groom the personality of students. Moreover, the main aspect is moral values– which are lacking from the society–are crucial to adopt as they discourage student to adopt harmful habits, language and social associations. As these values abstain a student or individual from bad habits, language and bad society. The Government should also look at the rural areas where many schools are not in good infrastructural condition and from day to day videos surfaced on social media about teachers are not performing their duty properly and transparently. If teachers are not able to maintain the daily attendance then how we can judge whether the new generation or young minds will excel in innovations and progress. Young minds are like delicate plants, the more we nurture and protect them, the sooner they will yield benefits for society.
(The author is a freelancer . The views, opinions and conclusions expressed in this article are those of the author and aren’t necessarily in accord with the views of “Kashmir Horizon”)
Ayaan Saroori
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