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HOW TO DEVELOP INDUSTRIOUSNESS IN STUDENTS

Adults know only one thing: What subject did they ask you in? What mark did you get? Were there

any reprimands?

There were none. (What boy would be silly enough to admit there were?)

And still another blow- Show me your report card! (A report card is milestone around ones neck,

an informer in ones own briefcase).

But the boys father is slowly reading the remarks in the report card: He was late for his second

lesson; he was playing football, again. He came to Biology class perspiring & covered with dirt....

And the boy sits like a person on trial. He is the pride of the football team. Oh, what a goal he scored

before that second lesson! He was the only one who broke through the defence, through all the

other team.

And does his father understand that this kick determined a great deal of his destiny? Was crucial to

relationships with the boys?...... No, the boys & girls have something in common- the poetic state of

their soul, a remarkable spirituality of impulse. If an adult does not try to understand his childspoetic state, if he does not make it an ally, speaking moral influences is worth nothing. Once you

have been able to make an ally of the childs poetic spirit & have shared all his excitements, you

should find a moment & offer him your help whenever & wherever it is needed.

During the class, the good students remember the lesson in a real way. The remainder of the class

simply pass the time away.

Extract the child from this terrible grey stillness. Let me tell you a well known experiment in which a

psychologist deceived a teacher, by telling him that five of his pupils who were doing rather poorly

really possessed outstanding mathematical abilities. The teachers attitude towards those

youngsters changed, and after a while they began to do a great deal better at school.

The psychologists who spoke about the definite powers of fear in a childs development were far

from being wrong. At the cross-roads of fear, constraints & defencelessness, there is a concentrated

battle of motives, a conflict between good & evil and, between the striving to improve the childs

status and the totally unjustified crushing status & the totally unjustified crushing down of his

human dignity.

Social psychologists have established the following laws. A person who thinks about himself as worth

little and not able to do much of anything, begins working hesitantly in order to improve his own

position. And the person who values his own worth is inclined to work with great strain, using his

abilities to the maximum. This person considers it below him to give in to difficulties. Self-respect is a

unique measure of how one feels, of status and of a self evaluation of ones character. If a child

knows that at home he will encounter frowns, reproaches, questions & sighs, he feels uneasy. This

sense of constraint increases as he gets nearer the home.

Try to carefully analyse this natural constraint of a child, put yourself in his position. Only through his

own efforts can a child attain genuine knowledge, develop his mental abilities & raise his status in

both, the school and the family.

If your child has missed some classes- do everything possible so that he can do the homework

assigned. Take the trouble: find yourself what he was assigned for homework, and sit down with him

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and make sure he does it. You will then be killing two birds with one stone. Youll eliminate any

possible gaps. Secondly, your ward will lose the desire to skip classes, unless absolutely inevitable.

Try to bring the child to understand that to miss or not to study a lesson, not to do his homework is

the greatest offence he may commit in his school life.

Now many parents have begun to understand that childs development is the product of his entire

life. That the family is just as responsible for it as the school is. And each of them must provide

different components of a single foundation for the childs self-development & self-discovery of his

possibilities. The process of education is going through a stage of constant transformation.

I almost have ceased to believe those cases in which the child stands First in his class & exhibits his

abilities without some help from the parents. This is almost impossible, just as it is not possible to

obtain fruit from a wild apple tree, which has been planted in an orchard.

If you want your children to get god education & develop well, you should not be stingy with your

efforts. A well brought up & educated child is the greatest wealth parents can possess.

If your child comes home and says he was the first in his class to correctly solve a problem & that

teacher praised him- you should know that his happiness is at its acme. If your child has not

experienced this emotion, it means that he has not come to know the happiness of victory over

himself, which is the treasure of every happy person. Help him acquire this happiness.

If your child receives only top marks & regards them with somewhat bored condescension, this is

dangerous. Help your child find more complicated variants of knowledge. A good pupil may not work

to full capacity, or up to the level of his development. Parents should keep an eye on this. The

sooner a child is immersed in a process of self-education, the more successful his preparation for life

& subsequent learning will be.

The unity of work, ethical, mental & physical upbringing is the basis of methods & modes leading to

the harmonious development of the individual. The concept of kindness, duty & conscience are

revealed to the child in his daily associations with his teachers, parents & friends; he assimilates

them in practical activity in various types of independent actions & work that children do. A nobility

of spirit cannot be acquired through constant edification alone. With children the first sparks of civic

responsibility appear during work.

In referring to childrens independent actions- always remember- that work does not have to be

easy. On has to, however, find the degree of difficulty which would make work morally educating &

spiritually attractive, its intensity being consummate with ones strength, so that his work makes a

childs life and school work more interesting.

So, GOOD LUCK.!!

By- AMIT SINGH (PGT-ACCOUNTS)