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A Must Read for all parents to understand the value of books in their child's life. (Few Life Inspiring Words - 11) |
It happened at a Stationary-Book Shop in our locality and the experience forced me to share it here with all friends of BTC.
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11 Jan 2012 /
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Amit Joshi
As always you are right :)
I want to share one of my experience too. one week ago my friend came to office and said \"yaar ye school waale bhi na kya kya kaam de dete hai baccho ko\" I said \"kya hua\" he answered that his son asked to write a summery of some famous novel which is so lengthy (around 400 pages) (i don\'t remember the name) then he started reading it from net (wikipedia), while he was making notes for his son he kept saying \"I wonder how (why) people read books, why they have interest in books ? how they come up with lots of time to read a book ! & funniest note he made \" yaar isme to love shove ke baare mein bataya hai......5th class ka baccha is novel ko padkar kya seekhega\" ? I didn\'t argued with him but felt that people thinks that writing is a one of the most easiest work and anybody who writes or read doesn\'t contribute in this productive world. But one question for you bobby:- as far as the school assignment is concern, don\'t you think it is unpractical to give 5th class of children a lengthy novel around 400 pages and ask him to make notes, as most of the children cant understand the heavy vocabulary used in novel & most of the time parents are too not much qualified to understand that novel...........so whats the solution for these english novels summery ? I hope you have answer. But I think we should encourage our children to read and write both. Regards, Amit Joshi
Bobby Sing
Hi Amit, The whole teachings of BUDDHA point towards finding the MID-PATH, the BALANCED PATH which doesnt tend to go any one way.
And this rule has to be used in defining the STUDY COURSE of the students too.
As pointed by you a 400page novel for a 5th class student is not preferred cause it more or less is going to take him away from the world of books only due to the memory of this heavy burden at that age.
That is the reason books like HARDY BOYS, THE FAMOUS FIVE or NANCY DREW are written by writers like ENID BLYTON for a specific age only.
So a BALANCED way has to be found by the EDUCATIONIST too......which is not at all followed by some prestigious schools.
Now interestingly this reminds me of BIG LOOP HOLE in the world famous film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.
In this film too, it is shown that a person remembers reading novel "The Three Muskeeteers" in his early childhood class and that too in the SLUMS School.
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