Category: Education and World

“Today’s young people disrespect their elders. They disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They ride in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decayed. What is to become of them?” (O’Toole, 2019). This statement is not from any of our parents but from Plato, who lived 2400 years ago. Similar words are heard through the generations. Every old generation considers the younger generation to be decidedly extravagant, relentless and dissolute compared to them and declare, “We were NOT like this!”

The altercation of old over the young is prevalent since Socrates age. Comparing generations is as ridiculous as comparing the caterpillar to the butterfly. Instead, one could compare the people living at two different periods, like those living in 1960s Bangalore, to that of 2016s Bangalore.

“It takes a whole village to raise a child”

This Nigerian proverb suggests that bringing up children is not merely a family’s work but the collective effort of the whole community. However, in the present world, the communities and joint families are dissolving and parents seldom have time to prepare their children adequately to lead their life.

As a young girl, I used to get scared whenever I was asked to write an essay, a story or a letter. My mind would get blank, and my hand would not go beyond ‘Once there was a king’. Then, I came across the ‘Rhetorical Devices’ which could be applied to any writing.

Any normal child would be able to eat on his own without spilling by 3 years. Even the children of uneducated, less privileged and poor parents, who do not get the required attention and care, learn to be independent. What is the reason for this child who is the only son of educated, caring and protective parents, not independent?

Ancient Nalanda University is one of the centres of learning in ancient India. Students all over the world came to Nalanda in search of higher knowledge. It is regarded as the first University in the recorded history of the world. The University of Paris, Bologna and Oxford were much recent and were founded in the 12th Century after the destruction of Nalanda.

Do you know an animal that has black stripes on its orange body? Yes, it is a tiger, but tigers did not have stripes always. Would you like to know how tigers got stripes?

A study conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development showed that 53.22% of children face one or more forms of sexual abuse. That means one in every two children faces sexual abuse in India. World Health Organization declared that India has the World’s largest number of sexually abused children and statistically speaking, every 155th minute one child below16 years is raped, at every 13th hour a child below 10 years and concluded that one in every 10 children is sexually abused at any point of time.

This is the photo of Mouna, a beautiful, intelligent and young girl of 16, who hanged herself. She was the second one I knew to commit suicide in 2009. The first one was my niece Chaitra. While Mouna hanged herself Chaitra drank an insecticide. Both killed themselves for their Love!