Exams,schooling,tuition classes and livelihood are parents' concerns

In IIT, only 1% gets admission. But what happens to 99% ?

SUNDER PICHAI- IIT graduate - GOOGLE CEO
In fact children have plenty of energy and are very keen to learn new things. They have hundreds of questions to ask. With right environment, good emotional support and freedom to explore and develop, giving little training at the right stage will make them perform well in exam and real life.

Narayan Murthy- IIT Graduate- Founder of INFOSYS

However trends in society seem to be going in the opposite direction, where questions in the text books are the only important questions and child's question becomes irrelevant. Success is defined in a narrow manner and whole joy of living is squeezed out.

Students at S E International School - Making Robot

Good academic education and inculcation of good values to child will help parent to escape from trap of poverty . Middle class sees education as a tool to secure comfortable life style. Child gets trapped in the system of assessment of unit tests and exams based on textbooks. Marks obtained in exam becomes criteria for judging capacity of child, hiding the various sub-text, life information, tricks and use of information importance.

Field Trip to understand different professional activities

There are alternative ways of exams. Schools should continue their efforts and spread their models of teaching and learning - values, morals, role models, as widely as possible. How to use skills, which they would learn ? With modern technology and modernization many articles, tools are taking place in fast changing world.

Schools can play an important role with parents in building communities, where rendering services of skills are essentials with inter dependent trust. Only Text Books or Exam grades in absence of skill and knowledge will not give 'Role Models'.