Posts

Showing posts from September, 2020

Skill developments in Pre - schoolers : Why Pre - primary students should not write in ruled notebooks.

  Topic -    Why Pre - primary children should do pattern writing or alphabet writing using red and blue lines (ruled notebooks). Why shouldn’t they be free to draw / write / reproduce / express what they have learnt without having any barriers or restrictions? I am an educationalist with 6 years work experience with the Pre-primary students. This is my concern related to the skill developments in preschoolers which I would like to share.  In India, since the Vedic period, education has always played a very important role in people’s life. During that period, the objective of education was not only to pass on the knowledge to younger people generations, but to enable the student to learn life skills and develop one's wholesome personality. After we got our independence, over the years, the original purpose of education was lost. It became a mere rat race for getting a higher percentage and a cut-throat competition for admissions in better schools/ colleges. With the recent National