Okram Sunder Singh, Headmaster
Public School Dzuvuru Kohima, Nagaland
Dynamic process: It is a common experience that for who is having a heavy work with a laptop complains for not being able to function some of his programme in his laptop. There is nothing wrong with his programming because these are his needs, he has to do. The problem is with the laptop because it has no facility to work with that programming. In technical term, the psychological programming is known as software and the physical laptop is known as hardware. The cause of facing the problem comes from the hardware because it has not been developed by its technology to suit the present situation. There is something in the system to be changed to meet the needs of ever changing world. A series of continuous change forms a process called dynamic process. Education is also a dynamic process which is similar to technology that requires continuous improvement. Whereas instructional part, students and the concept of education are respectively analogues to software, hardware and technology.
Traditional and modern systems: Let s consider the educational system before 2000 as traditional system and the system after it as modern system. One of the differences is that in traditional system and the system after it as modern system. One of the differences is that in traditional system, learning outcome is measured from the work of pen and paper but in modern system, measurement is done from the behavioural change of the student. Question is how to bring a desirable change? A change by an effort is considered as development. Development of hardware is by its technology. So development of student will be by the concept of education.
New Concept: Teaching is an act of command by learning is an act of demand. So, the concept is to replace teaching by learning. According to law of readiness by Thorndike “if the learner is ready to act of lean, he will learn more quickly, effectively and easily”. Now what we have to do is to make the student to be ready to learn in place of teaching.
Area to be developed: (a). Intelligent quotient (IQ): It is an inborn quality but according to Adams “knowledge or thought that may be of practical use in life may be termed as intelligence”. (I will not take much time in this part as it is not a new topic).
(b). Emotional quotient (EQ): Everybody accepts that higher IQ means higher skill and higher skill means better work. But can we accept that higher IQ means more sincerity? Or a person with higher IQ is sure to sacrifice for his service, society or nations?
According to Emli Durkheim “Education is socialization of younger generation”. Now, can we say every educated person is a socialized person? If we thank of today’s crimes-production of nuclear weapons, drugs, synthetic food adulteration, cyber crimes (massive global attacks) we would realize that these are the works of high-IQ persons but not of a layman. By our intelligence, we invent machines and devices to help us. Now the problem is, these machines and devices make man useless in work places like factories, office etc. Our creative mind becomes the cause of a war between human intelligence and artificial intelligence. Then how do the works of high IQ persons become anti social elements?
The main reason is the traditional system helps the students to develop only in IQ. Home and social environment takes the responsibility for the developing other required traits. Even though co-scholastics area in school co-curriculum tries to measure at least some of the required other traits.
We have seen different acts and attitudes of people. Some are crying, some are singing happily, some are shouting etc. All these are the responds of his/her emotion. So man is a faithful servant of his emotion. It shows that man is controlled by EQ rather than IQ.
(c). Spiritual quotient (SQ): Everything or everybody in our environment is not under our control. Many things in nature are beyond human conscience. Everybody has his/her own authority. Relation between our mind and external world keeps on changing our emotion. That is why many a time we have negative emotion such as fear, pain, loss of interest, anxiety, stress etc. For handling a matter which is beyond human limit we are better to be with something which extends beyond human boundary. UNESCO has given more concern to world peace, international understanding and unity of mankind. ‘Peace’ which is the ultimate aim of education for which one has to sacrifice for the first 20 years of his/her life span in learning. If we look at today’s scenario of unemployment problem, after completing their education who is getting peace of mind? If the whole part of education is occupied by the area of IQ, nothing on the earth will be more dangerous than human being.
Spirituality is all about peace and purity. One should not get confuse spirituality with religion. Spirituality is all about peace and purity. One should not get confuse spirituality with religion. Spirituality is universal and it does not have any reference to religion. But a religion may give its reference to spirituality. It leads us to offer an attribution to the beauties and abilities beyond the creation of human. That is why Mahatma Gandhi stated as by Education, I mean an all round drawing out the best in child and man, body, mind and spirit”. I think this one sentence statement explains everything and will remain forever.
(d). Mind Orientation: in traditional system students borrow experience from books. That is why every student carries a very heavy school bag. After completing their education they become the owners of pen and paper only. This is one of the reasons that India is facing unemployment problem. In new approach every student creates knowledge and earns understanding with work experience (concept of constructivism). So learning becomes a child centred. Every child centre learning is an activity based learning. Nowadays, throughout the country, students are very busy in carrying out school project (Pragmatic method). Question is how far the system is effective or reliable to the work of students?
Effectiveness or reliability is a matter of moral responsibility. Responsibility is the first lesson and also lifelong lesson one has to learn. But it cannot be learnt from books or cannot be taught by somebody. Of course they make us to understand. It is a sense to be felt by motivation of understanding. Everybody understands by everybody is not always a responsible person.
Every child centred learning should have a regular training class for mind to develop self motivation in which the quality of mind is controlled by logical, psychological and sociological approaches and the quantity of the mind is controlled by mind concentration an physio-brain exercise.
No one can use even 5% of his brain. But most of us think that we have poor memory and low concentration. It is not by the quality of brain but it is by the way of how we use it. For example, student who cannot remember any poem learnt in class can sing more that 100 songs, student who cannot concentrate in class can give full concentration to movies. Such inabilities are because of improper coordination between left and right parts of brain. By training we can increase the ability of brain.
