Speech of Swamini Vimalananda notebook of the student without either of the minds being involved”. Is it not true? See most of the cases, that is why I didn’t like teachers. Because my teacher would not even see whether I was awake or asleep. They couldn’t care less or they would always pinpoint. I meet a lot of
children, that is one of the greatest joys in my life and
I keep questioning them and I ask them. I said, “I
am going to address some teachers. What do you want me to
tell them.” They don’t get a chance to tell
them. They cannot go up and tell the teacher I think this
of you or whatever, they should chance but they
don’t. I told them I have got a chance to go and
talk to teachers, so you tell me what do you want? What
this child said was shocking, she is a X std child and
says, “All my life I felt this and now you are
getting a chance just tell them this”. I said
“What?” And she said “Tell them not to
shout at us and to respect us”. , a teacher should
respect the dignity of the child, we must respect the
childhood of the child. Remember a child is a child and
he has every right to be a child. Who are you and I do
take out the childhood from a child? Let me explain this
to you. A research in the US has shown that an average
child smiles or laughs, genuinely (important word is
genuinely) 200 times a day, and an average adult smiles
or laughs genuinely 20 times a day. So in the process of
growing up what have you lost? the ability to smile and
laugh genuinely ! False smiles we can give a lot- kemcho
majamachena? That we are doing all the time.
Genuinely smile or laugh? Now give me a person who smiles
and laughs more- Is he not a happier man? And at the end
of the day as adults what do you want? to be happy,
right? So what has the child lost in the process of
growing? The childhood. And I tell you teachers are
responsible to a great extent in taking away that. Most
teachers in their classroom say “Aama Haswanu
shoo chee?” “Haso Shoo Karwa?” Have
you not heard this statement? A hundred times! “What
is there to laugh” “Why are you laughing?”
And the child quietens and then. “good boy”
Are, tame to ani smile kadhi nakhi, ema
‘good’ shoo thayou?” Please respect the childhood of a child, the child has a right to be childish. If a child is not a childish who is going to be childish? You and me? Have you understood this? We want them to be adults too soon, that is too bad. We want the children to remain children they have a right to be childish, they have a right to be what they are. The child in every person, just human thoda vakhat pehla, ek chokra ne poochu, tu choole schoole karva jayeche? Most of the times the answer is – schoole hoon jato nathi, manne mokleyche ! That is the common answer they give. I don’t want to go the school. I go because they are sending me. That is simple. Then I ask the next question to children “tu schoole shoo karva jayeche, school gameche ke vacation gameche?” He said school gameche. So we feel happy, “school gameche chokro sarasche!” “shoo karwva avu keyeche?” “friend ne malva” this is the common answer given by the children. They are honest, they well tell you what they mean. Now, the reason a child goes to school is because of the fun that he gets in a school and meeting friends, and if you and I take out the fun element from this school what is the use? I hope you get this. |