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An Alternate
Educational System
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By Sourav Ghosh

http://www.souravghosh.com/blog/alternate-educational-system/
As the kids are still unborn or too young to read this report, this
report is intended for parents. And if you are a parent who is
always afraid of what people might think or care more about your
social impression than your kids’ happiness, then you are advised
not to read further.
If you are not a parent, then also this post will be very interesting
(or disturbing) read for you. As I mentioned in my past blog post,
that I’m not-normal. So our educational system never made sense
to me. But still had to participate in the rat race for long until I
became old enough to refuse. This twisted point view of mine
resulted in lots of suspicions in people around me, and felt like
alien for quite some times.
But I’m glad that in last 7 years met many people who bear the
same opinion as mine. And few months back, an interesting
conversation with Sanjibda re-ignited the spark within me to wake
people up from age-old brainwashing of our broken educational
system.

Though I wanted to write on this topic for long, I got the final
push when I posted this update on Facebook
And got comment from a very close person:
But why??? I have some dream about my son, what about that?
What if a class VI student asks his parents “Why should I study physics/
chemistry/ math/ history … ?” What should be the answer of his
parents?

Live Your Own Dreams & Let Your Children Live Theirs
To answer his first question. I will recommend every single person to
devote their own life to fulfill their dreams. Please please please don’t
sacrifice your own dreams for your children & then dump your
unfulfilled dreams onto their heads.
This is going on for ages. And this mentality is the reason for so much
frustration, unhappiness, addictions among youth, old-age home &
many other bad stuffs.
This doesn’t make sense. Think about it sensibly.
• You don’t live your dreams as you are busy fulfilling your parents’
and raising your kids.
• Your kids don’t live their dreams as they are busy fulfilling your
dreams and raising their kids.
• Your kids’ kids don’t live their dreams as they are busy fulfilling your
kids’ dreams and raising your kids’ kids’ kids.
… (should I continue this anymore?)

Live Your Own Dreams & Let Your Children Live Theirs
Don’t you think it’s better to take responsibility of your own dreams
and set your children free to live their dreams?
I don’t want to get into more details on the first question, as this report
is more about answering the second one.
Before I propose the alternate educational system, I want to remind
you that today more and more people are waking up from the fallacy of
the existing educational system.

Movies Pointing Out the Loopholes of Educational System
No copyright violation intended

I feel very glad to see that beautiful movies are being made to open up
minds of people. Some of my favorite movies on this topics are
mentioned in last page. Can you name some more movies on this topic?
If you are a bit orthodox type (sorry!), you may not like the idea of being
influenced by the movies regarding a subject like ‘education’. Well, let
me present what some of the greatest thinkers thought about education.
See it for yourself, whether our existing educational system matches with
it.
What great people thought about Education

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Now tell me, do you really think that our existing educational system is
providing ‘education’ in the true sense of the term?
Hoping that these great people inspired you to be more open to the
alternate (read REAL) educational system, let me propose my
(and Sanjibda’s) ideas about it.

The Alternate Educational System
I have many ideas on this. This is like a dream project for me. I’m
trying to share with you as many points as I can think of at this
moment.

Never ask your kids to write “What do you want to become
when you grow up” Stupid Essays:
Come on! I am sure most of you (if not all of you) were asked to write
these essays in your childhood. You know this essay does more harm
than good to children. Why? Just think about it. When a child is asked to
write this, how much he/she knows about the world? Do they know all
the career options available? No! A child writes this essay from the
limited perception or the influence of someone. If a child had seen only
doctors, engineers and teachers around them, how can they think or
write about being a painter? You know some parents even force children
to write – “Sonu. Write that you want to be a doctor. Don’t you want to
make your Mamma/Daddy proud?”! And they kill the unlimited
potential within a child at that very moment. Some parents even keep
poking their grown up kids – “How can you say now that you want to be
a rock singer? Don’t you remember that you wrote you wanted to be an
engineer in your primary school essay?”. Painfully funny!

Expose your kids to all possible options early in life:
First thing you should do for the education of your kid (after teaching
them to talk, read and write) is to involve them in fun activities related
to different subjects and professions. Give them colorful crayons to
draw, ask them to write about their doll, play different sports with them,
give easy math puzzles, give colorful books to read. Talk about different
professions in a way they can understand like “You know what doctor
uncle does? When anyone gets fever, he cures them”. Then observe,
what is your children interested in. Encourage your kids in those
activities. Never ever force your kids to do stuffs they don’t want to do.

Don’t think that you understand what’s good for your kid better
than themselves:
There is no greater power than imagination and intuition. Every great
inventions are results of these two. And imagination and intuition is
more powerful in kids than in grown up people. I know it’s bit hard to
accept, but learn to trust in your kids. Let them follow their heart.

Schooling should be fun:
Many potentials die where it should have been nurtured.
Make sure you admit your kids in schools where they can have
fun while learning, not in those schools which turn kids into
tiny machines. Talk explicitly to the teachers if you need. Let
them know that you don’t want your kids to be pressured in
any way. You don’t care about the marks (why you shouldn’t
I’ll tell you soon). You just want your kids to have a good time,
learn values and make friends.

Why don’t you opt for home schooling?:
Rabindranath Tagore is not the only one who had
homeschooling. I know many parents (outside India) who
prefer to teach their kids at home. Trust me, no one can
make the basic foundation of kids as strong as parents. In
case you want to, but can’t because you are too busy in your
career, then you must watch the video Parable of Pipeline &
think about some career which can give you time freedom
too.

What if kids could devote completely to their subject of
interests from childhood?:
Have you ever thought about it? What if a kid could devote
all those childhood years to learn, practice, innovate, create
about the subjects they love? Just imagine, from the age of
10 some kids are playing whole day, some are writing
stories/poems, some are drawing/painting, some are solving
math puzzles, some are reading novels, some are starting
their small entrepreneurial ventures, some are learning
martial arts, some are studying space, some are fiddling with
computer …. Don’t you think these kids will turn into
absolute geniuses in their twenties? Don’t you think that
they will change the world in their thirties and forties?

Your kids don’t need to learn all the subjects:
Wake up from the age old brainwashing that your kids need to
learn all the subjects to lead a good life. Total bullshit. Possibly
math and language (mother tongue and English) are the only
two subjects that everyone will need in life. Why should
someone memorize how many wives some characterless kings
had and when they were born and died? Why would someone
need to memorize so much stuff of geography when they can
get the information from Google? Think rationally, do your kids
really need to learn this for practical applications in their
future?

Brain is a computer, not a hard disk:
You must have heard that human brain is the most
advanced computer. Then why would you force your kids
to occupy their brains with useless data? Role of brain is
to think, imagine and innovate not just store
information. Haven’t you ever seen in your smart phone,
that when you put too much data in internal memory it
turns slow. Same happens in case of your kids. More
useless information you stuff in their heads, more
dumb they will become.

Don’t let your kids participate in the rat race:
Life is a race – if anyone try to tell you this, break their face. Don’t you
love your kids? How can you treat them like horses (or rats)? Why do
you want them to participate in such races? I know what you must be
thinking – “but now a days there is so much competition”. Ofcourse
there are. If you push your kids to follow the crowd, do what everyone
else is doing, they are bound to face competition. But what if you set
them free? You will say – “If I don’t force them to study hard in
primary, they won’t get into good secondary schools. If they don’t get
into secondary schools and study hard, the won’t get into good
colleges and won’t be able to get good jobs.” Mark my words. If you
let your children follow their heart from childhood, they won’t ever
need marks/ certificate/ degree to get the best jobs or they may not
even need a job. They’ll always be able to create career out of their
passion. Yes, they’ll face difficulties. But they won’t be frustrated as
they will be doing something they enjoy doing.

Don’t judge your kids on marks, rather judge on their values:
If you program your kids from early age
to give importance only to tangible results
like marks, they may never understand
the importance of things like truthfulness,
honesty, politeness, humility etc. You
should let your kids know that being a
good human being is not optional.

Let your kids know that they have complete freedom over their
career choice:
Trust me you (and your kids) can do, be or have anything you want.
Please don’t limit their vision forcing some career path on them. If you
do a little bit of research, you’ll find out that successful people are
successful doing different things – from cutting hair, to designing dresses,
to writing books, working in software companies, founding companies,
gardening, chasing lions, … only thing common is most (if not all) of
them are successful doing something they love. (Btw I don’t consider a
frustrated rich as a successful person. I’m sure you don’t want your kids
to be like them ). You should let your kids know that they can become
whatever they want to be. Many parents are scared thinking “My kid
loved drawing when he was 8, loved singing when he was 16 and now he
want to be a kung fu instructor at 25. He doesn’t have a fixed career
objective“. It’s absolutely fine. Many successful persons changed career
paths many times in life. Change isn’t a bad thing. You should just remind
your kids again and again “Dear,do whatever you want but live your life
in a manner that you can die with a smile on your lips.”.

Encourage your kids to be a life long learner of life lessons:
There are many important lessons in life, which a kid
should be taught from childhood. And the most
important among those is – never stop learning. Teach
your kids to learn from their failures. Teach your kids
the power of thoughts, feelings, words and actions.
Teach your kids the importance of perseverance &
patience. Trust me, this knowledge will be more
valuable than all the academic data.

Well, that is all for now. I know our society and the educational
system are yet to understand all these. And if you decide to follow
this alternate educational system, your journey might be tough. But
only if you care about what others think of you.
You should follow this alternate educational system, as it would be
the best gift to your kids and yourself too. Imagine spending so
many beautiful moments together without worrying about home
works, class tests, exam marks. Imagine being the best friend of
your kids, living happily ever after. One thing for sure, bond
between you and your kids will never ever break if you follow this.
I’d really really love to know what you think of this. Feel free to
write whatever you feel from heart. Don’t hesitate to contradict
me. I’m very open and flexible person to discuss.

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