Hi guys,
Hope you all are having a top year till date and if so I have no intentions of changing that with this blog.....
but seriously, having read , heard and expressed my opinion on illiteracy , I have come to a few conclusions which I hope would help in ending the dilemma that I have so often faced.
Let me start by citing a few examples that come to mind , say while watching a sports activity that we, Indians often compare how well the opposition can fall and recover while we rarely match up to the athletic ability. The standard response to such an observation would be Indians are more academically inclined and are highly placed the world over be it in the field of science , finance or medicine, no denying that fact .
How many of us can remember being told that if you want to play a game and that is besides your school work that you should be sticking to one game and if you are not , you are being very fickle. Remember? ring a bell somewhere? the child is fickle but it is so because its brain is learning at the time and wants to absorb more , know more , don't stop this process, its natural , we must abolish early specialisation of any kind.
How about firstly teaching a child to jump , run , hop , skip , fall and get up as part of the kindergarten syllabus?
you might say whats there to learn ? oh but there is a lot to learn how many of us know the right running technique?I am sure not many of us do. If a child is not taught these basic skills properly they may not execute the slightly advanced skills properly, get laughed at , discouraged even ridiculed in some cases and drop sport altogether. We need to understand that being literate is not being able to read and write but also performing basic skills correctly being 'physically' literate is also a necessity the sooner we realise the better, agree? no? answer me this , do you write more or walk more in your life? do you read more or breathe more ? in times of stress the " I/you need to relax" phrase is abundant , how many of us know how to relax? well when we breathe , walk and relax more than any other basic activity why aren't we taught the techniques to these enormously important skills ? Children must be taught these skills, at an age when they learn to read and write a foreign language and get very good at it , imagine the range of progress we could achieve by teaching these skills them .
The magnitude of potential is exciting ........yes learning letters, words and sentences is important but breathing , walking , running and relaxing is paramount......again, Just Thoughts.
Hope you all are having a top year till date and if so I have no intentions of changing that with this blog.....
but seriously, having read , heard and expressed my opinion on illiteracy , I have come to a few conclusions which I hope would help in ending the dilemma that I have so often faced.
Let me start by citing a few examples that come to mind , say while watching a sports activity that we, Indians often compare how well the opposition can fall and recover while we rarely match up to the athletic ability. The standard response to such an observation would be Indians are more academically inclined and are highly placed the world over be it in the field of science , finance or medicine, no denying that fact .
How many of us can remember being told that if you want to play a game and that is besides your school work that you should be sticking to one game and if you are not , you are being very fickle. Remember? ring a bell somewhere? the child is fickle but it is so because its brain is learning at the time and wants to absorb more , know more , don't stop this process, its natural , we must abolish early specialisation of any kind.
How about firstly teaching a child to jump , run , hop , skip , fall and get up as part of the kindergarten syllabus?
you might say whats there to learn ? oh but there is a lot to learn how many of us know the right running technique?I am sure not many of us do. If a child is not taught these basic skills properly they may not execute the slightly advanced skills properly, get laughed at , discouraged even ridiculed in some cases and drop sport altogether. We need to understand that being literate is not being able to read and write but also performing basic skills correctly being 'physically' literate is also a necessity the sooner we realise the better, agree? no? answer me this , do you write more or walk more in your life? do you read more or breathe more ? in times of stress the " I/you need to relax" phrase is abundant , how many of us know how to relax? well when we breathe , walk and relax more than any other basic activity why aren't we taught the techniques to these enormously important skills ? Children must be taught these skills, at an age when they learn to read and write a foreign language and get very good at it , imagine the range of progress we could achieve by teaching these skills them .
The magnitude of potential is exciting ........yes learning letters, words and sentences is important but breathing , walking , running and relaxing is paramount......again, Just Thoughts.
