Childhood is for growing, blossoming, learning, playing, enjoying and exploring, being creative, courageous as well as adventurous.
Adulthood is for working, working hard, working for results and performing well.
If we understand this basic difference, we can ensure the establishment of a nourishing and beneficial childhood, love for learning, opportunities for thinking and high intelligence in children and in society.
Childhood is for learning – learning more, learning new, learning every moment, learning from friends, learning from play, learning out of curiosity and inquisitiveness, learning for pure joy of learning.
A child’s tender age is not meant for working for results(better grades), for practicing or revising what he already knows. Childhood is not an age for imposing discipline on oneself. It is for exploring ideas, being mischievous, being adventurous, being experimental, being a child – totally undisciplined, planless, not result oriented.
Once he finds his interest, his passion, his inclination and his love, he can set goals, he can plan, he can be disciplined, and that is when he produces remarkable results. Not out of race but out of grace.
This is real education.
Education is not the imparting of knowledge. It is about drawing out potential and creating love for learning.
We can achieve this goal by shifting the focus from teaching and training the child to be a corporate slave to helping the child blossom into what he was really meant to be. Let us effect the transition from “working in the race mode” to “working in grace mode.”