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Namah Vol. 25, Issue 1, 24th April 2017

it may be difficult and challenging to tailor- for parents and teachers to say that they do not
make education for each child accommodating understand technology or are wary of Facebook.
their uniqueness and differences, it may be This only leads to an increasing gap and does
disastrous to have a uniform and standardised harm to the growing up children who do need
system of schooling, worse still with an eye on some kind of guidance from elders.
producing adults as in a factory, into money-
earning machines! However it may be good to remember that
this guidance should be best confined to
Perhaps we need to find a middle way. practical matters and the final choice left with
Those children who are still undergoing an the younger one, especially after a certain
evolution aligned to the evolution of the mass- age. Children, though old souls many, are
consciousness may be kept in one section. new entrants to the earth atmosphere when
Another section can be created wherein they come back. Between their previous life
children of an exceptional kind, children who and this one, there is a lapse of time and also
are showing signs of an individualisation very often a change of space. They need to
and complexity, are educated in a different move with the times and understand the
way. The latter should be allowed much space they are born in. It is here that cultural
more freedom to explore and experiment. values have an importance. Just as we need
The teacher here has to be prepared for out- to know the rules of a country we also need
of-the-box solutions, especially since it is to understand the unique ethos of a place
quite possible that a child may have a greater where we live. Certain ways of life may
evolutionary possibility and complexity, even work well in one country but not in others.
be actually more evolved at one level than However, there should be no indoctrination
the teacher himself! This would naturally that this alone is good. Each country has its
create an awkward situation; these children own ethos and it works well with them.
may be quite disobedient and disrespectful If a child, after he has grown up is more
to their teachers, perhaps even revolt from comfortable with another culture he should
the way things are since they belong to the be free to emigrate and reside in the country
future and feel it in their bones. We already of his choice, provided he is accepted. It is
observe this happening, since due to the unfortunate that temperament is not yet a
evolutionary pressure and the accumulated criteria for immigration. But as humanity
experience over long spaces of time many evolves and national boundaries get blurred,
human beings have developed a great degree people (adults and who knows, even children
of individuality that is showing up even in once they are no more dependent) would
children to some extent. The children of today be free to adopt another country without
exercise their choices much earlier as if the any hassle.
age of adulthood is shifting backwards. All
this is adding confusion for parents and There is however one caveat here. Sometimes
teachers alike. The only remedy is for the it is good to have the experience of the
parents and the teachers to themselves enter contrary for our growth. Living in very
the fast-forward mode of evolution at every different surroundings and circumstances
level. Thus, for example, it is not enough from the point of view of our temperament

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