Love them, Nurture them

Children are the most beautiful creation of God. We, teachers, are so fortunate to meet so many kids every day and shape their lives by loving, caring and guiding them. Children these days are under various types of stress and pressure and most of the time it has nothing to do with academics. But being teachers our entire focus, most of the times, is on how much the child is able to score. When their scores go down, they do not pay attention in the class, become non responsive, the ultimate weapon we have is to shout and scream.

Before shouting or screaming on a child, we should try to find the problems with which they are dealing. Just because their problems are not as big as ours doesn't mean we have the right to ignore them. We should stop making children victim of our anger.

Students in a class are like flowers in the garden. They may dry even with our little negligence and ignorance. We have to remember that no one is perfect. We should not expect our students to have an aptitude or attitude to become a scientist, doctor or engineer. May be they are meant to be artists, dancers, singers or actors.

We are not manufacturing a product to sell in the market. It is perfectly ok if they learn a little less. Our task is to make them good human beings so that they can spread love and happiness all around and build a healthy environment.

Heena Nagwani

Educator, Oxford Public School