June 21, 2009

Learning by unlearning your culture, is it good for India ?

India has been known for its rich traditions. The social cohesiveness, since Vedic times was one of the key feature of India. Since early times conscious efforts to maintain to give society a tried and tested way of life that leads to material development but at the same time maintaining spiritual and emotional balance of an individual that helped society to have disciplined individuals.

All this needed a sound learning system and the Gurukuls were the perfect set ups to train young and pure minds with traditional knowledge and asking them to explore the power of their minds to search for better solutions for existing challenges.

The main system adopted to impart knowledge was STORY TELLING. This was very effective mean to pass on knowledge without any other knowledge storage medium. The one of the other benefit was to improve concentration power of the students as GURUs used to ask questions in between, so students needed to be attentive and have full concentration.

Story selection and creation was another great feature of GURU – SHISHYA system and the almost all stories were taken from day to day scenarios so that students can relate to those scenarios and look for many solutions of problems posed in stories by using their minds.

In the name of modernisation we have change this tried and tested education system not only in present schools even parents feel tired and not interested in telling stories to their kids. They have been victim of modernisation and consumerism as today COMIC CD DVD and cartoon movies are available in library, shops or on 24x4 TV channels.

Where are we heading to? Why all this wisdom of yester years is not protected? Why we are looking for superficial ways of Parenting by opting for readymade solutions that are not offering values to Indian culture. HOW these comics and cartoons of tom and jerry, mickey mouse, Donald duck, richie rich, Barbie, archie, veronica etc can imbibe Indian wisdom in Indian mind why our rich jatak kathas, pachtantras are not considered capable of imbibing creative and decision making abilities in our kids.

We need to use our simple logics and simple IQs.

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