Importance of being Self-Reliant

Education is itself a blossoming field and all of us were given the best education for the best of whatever our parents could afford, but have you wondered why even after holding so many degrees, many of us struggle in the real market? Does our school and higher education are seriously lacking something? In my view, they are.

I Play I Learn School

Education is not what we read in books, but it is more of what teaches the ethics and lessons that can be used in the future at challenging times. For instance, at I Play I Learn School that is located in East Patel Nagar, it is not about grasping and mugging up the facts, rather about understanding the concepts to the level that one can successfully apply them in real life. Simply cramming the things does not make any sense in the long run, it may fetch you the highest marks, but it will surely not put you on a high pedestal in the real world unless you know how to use them for the best. That is exactly where our present education system lacks. The dimension of ‘practicality’ is not there, though the theoretical one is strong enough in its roots.

As a parent, it is your utmost priority that you decide and teach your child the way they should be educated to ensure that whatever struggles you faced in that one phase all at once, your child won’t. The obstacles will still come in the future, but then your child would be equipped to face and solve the issues independently without feeling helpless.

Icon International School

To make your child self-reliant, you must start early as it cannot happen overnight. At Icon International School, to begin with, you can start as early as your child reaches the age of 7 years, start teaching them to manage their study time on their own. And as a result, gradually he/she will learn it so well that you will not have to worry what and when to teach, instead they would remind you the things. Their self-reliance will increase while their dependence on you will lessen.

The next crucial step is needed to be taken when he is in the senior secondary level. Instead of relying completely on the school curriculum or cramming the things just the way the teacher has asked him to, tell him how important it is for him to understand the concepts on his own and then take the required help. He needs to do his bit and we will now discuss how this can be done.

All of us are well aware of the tech-savvy Gen X, in fact, they are so good at Internet surfing, then why not use it for the matter of education? For instance, your child is not so good at history, instead of simply cramming the dates and events, teach him first that history is not only about the events, but it is about the ‘change and continuity’. He will see it not as a story or a baggage of dates, but start conceptualizing as to why a certain event happened? What led to it? Further, it can be made more interesting by watching the videos of the historical events which are at times funny, rhyming but surely will help him in memorizing the sequence of events quite easily.