This case Is not very different from the stories of hundreds of students have had the opportunity to counsel In the past six years. I have always noticed that most of the students’ academic problems can be traced to imbalances in the personal lifestyle which is often taken for granted. Many parents and teachers fail to make this simple connection and also to impress upon students the need for a balanced lifestyle.
Indian society and the education system must veer away from the obsessive focus on marks & ranks, If we want to unleash the full potential of our youth and allow them to grow In a more natural way, pursuing their inborn talents and interests. A host of common behavioral problems noticed in kids and adolescents can be prevented or cured if a foundation is laid at an early age towards holistic personality development. Multiple Intelligence In this article, I will make use of the concept of Multiple Intelligence developed by Dry.
Howard Gardener], Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dry. Gardner talks of different aspects of Intelligence possessed by every human being and why it is important to develop each one of them to achieve a balanced personality. I will also attempt to illustrate how Indian tradition has always emphasized on such all round growth of the human being through the knowledge systems Like yoga, and even through classical art forms like music or dance.
Physical Intelligence Lack of regular physical activity and regime is perhaps the biggest epidemic afflicting the students in India today. The rat race for marks and ranks leaves little time or motivation for the average student to go out and spend some time at the gymnasium or in the playground. The university campus where I reside has a massive playground, a well-equipped yam, a basketball court, a tennis court and to top it all, one of the biggest swimming pools in South India. And yet, hardly 500 students come out to play or exercise every day, out of the 5,000 strong student community on this campus.
No wonder then that a majority of the students who approach me with problems of poor concentration, motivation in studies are those who belong to the couch potato category. Had Swami Vaccinated been with us today, he would have declared again what he told that group of emasculated youngsters who approached him with a request to earn the Baghdad Gait under his guidance: muff will be nearer to heaven through football than by reading the Gait. ” But there is a significant positive trend happening in schools and colleges across India.
Just as the number of obese and overweight kids is on the rise, so is there a growing interest in systems of yoga. What better proof of this than the fact that the mainstream political class in Thumbnail which takes pride usually in hating everything that is rooted in Hindu tradition, has been instrumental in making yoga compulsory across all schools in the state! Or consider for example the experience of the Vaccinated Kenned in popularizing Usury Mascara amongst schools all over India, particularly in Madhya Pradesh.
Students who have attended the Yoga Barras or the Samara Barras conducted by the Kenned vouch for the marked transformation in personality that the regular practice Usury Mascara has effected in them. There is palpable strengthening of will power and confidence in these students. Parents and Schools should therefore reconsider the unhealthy trade off which they ask students to make between the time given to physical activities and studies.
Even a cursory look at the placement scenario in professional colleges makes it amply clear that all corporations today emphasize the need for good communication skills and they prefer recruits with better communication skills in English. Communication skill has a great impact on our interpersonal relationships. A person who can communicate effectively and clearly is less likely to create communication gaps which lead to serious misunderstandings. Good communication skills and proficiency in many languages improves one’s reach amongst peers and enhances one’s social acceptance and prestige.
It is an interesting fact that great spiritual leaders like Swami Vaccinated were masters of the art of communication. Indian’s rich literary and oral heritage is yet another illustration of this point; our forefathers understood the significance of developing linguistic intelligence. Musical Intelligence The study and practice of music was considered as a sacred form of worship in Indian tradition – Antipodeans. Perhaps, music is the most beautiful facet of human civilization. Sir Ramekins was particularly fond of Swami Evasiveness’s melodious voice and his soulful singing.
Sir Ramekins would attain Sashimi on listening to devotional music. I often come across students who are addicted to music. Many of them turn out to be class toppers! They listen to their favorite music even the night before their semester exams! We do not need an expert in music therapy to tell us this obvious fact that music not only relaxes the mind but also brings about far reaching physiological and neurological changes in the body-mind complex over a period of time. Interpersonal Intelligence the way he conducts himself in civilized society and the treatment he accords to there.
Corporations today emphasize again on relationship skills which are considered critically important for an individual to rise in the hierarchy of the organization. A CEO with poor relationship skills is either a non-existent oxymoron or a disaster for the organization. All religious values are centered on building relationship skills on the basis of a spiritual understanding of what connects one human being to another. “The essence of religion is to be good and do good to others,” said Swami Vaccinated.
The Inhabitant declares Aims to be the greatest dharma because he risks perceived that all life is interconnected. You cannot harm others without harming yourself. If this profound truth is impressed upon our students from a young age, there will not be much need for all the fuss we hear about value education today. Many social or national evils like corruption or caste discrimination are results of a lifestyle that seeks personal garnishment at the cost of and complete indifference to the plight of our fellow human beings.
If only our education gives greater weight to building relationship skills amongst dents, the India of our dreams would not have to wait for the year 2020. Interpersonal Intelligence Conventional psychology would look down upon an introvert as a person with poor relationship skills. Not today. Howard Gardner and new schools of thought have begun to understand the reason why Indians give such respect to Minis and Yogis who withdraw from the world. An introvert who spends much time trying to understand his deeper self will also become capable of understanding others from a compassionate viewpoint.
Interpersonal Intelligence is the new marker developed to give due weight to this important aspect of our personality development and grooming. A person who runs away from his own self all the while trying to substitute his inner vacuum with external pursuits or superficial relationships is heading for a crisis. The extrovert’s sense of identity and esteem is highly dependent on others’ views of his personality. An introvert is a person who is striving to arrive at a state where he can feel good or be content without having to seek an external confirmation of his
Logical Mathematical Intelligence (Q) Development of Logical Mathematical Intelligence is often given disproportional weight in the development of a student’s personality. While IQ does play a significant role in the life of every human being, what was perhaps overlooked till recently was that IQ alone does not make a person complete nor is it the only parameter for measuring a person’s potential for success or happiness in life. A person with a poor IQ may be more than compensated by a high emotional intelligence.
This is the reason why we see many school dropouts becoming highly successful entrepreneurs in India where as many MM graduates disappear into oblivion after getting an MBA degree! Conclusion We know through Swami Evasiveness’s writings that he considered two things to be of great importance in personality development: a) Preference to the ‘Heart’ over the ‘Head’ b) The role of the Guru in shaping a student’s personality and the importance of living in the proximity of the Guru or Sugariness’s. Swami’s views based on Pedantic wisdom have stood the test of time.
All that is destructive in human civilization is a result of a sharp brain with an undeveloped earth. Human civilization suffers from an excess of materialistic IQ devoid of CEQ and SQ. And the only place where a student can be systematically trained to nurture his CEQ & SQ is at the karakul under the supervision of a wise master. As a teacher, perhaps it would be self-righteous on my part to claim that a teacher plays the most vital role in a student’s personal growth. But, as a student of the school of life, I cannot but reiterate this eternal law – only a spark can ignite another spark, only life can inspire another life.
