TNN | Posted June 24, 2013 05:20 PM
There will about one million people being added to the
Children, at a young age, must be made aware of these facts. They must acknowledge the right for every individual to be well educated. Thanks to
Students also have to believe that community service is important. They should be educated about certain harsh ground realities, before serving the community for them to be truly compelled. Not only should well-known schools employ the idea, but government schools must also include community service in their syllabus. Students, to begin with, may form a group and tutor children in lower classes. It creates a sense of empowerment and purpose. Embedding the notion of helping someone as a virtue is important. The tutor group could increase in number, as more students may pay better attention in class in order to become a member of the tutor group.
It doesn’t stop there. ‘Kaizen’, in Japanese, means ‘constant improvement’, a popular term used in the manufacturing industry. I strongly believe in this philosophy and the implementation of it in community service at school level will reap rich fruits. Students must learn from each other’s experiences, in order to improve their own method for their next service. Technology would aid this process. Schools, which benefit from such infrastructure, may use it extensively. For example, a common file may be created for each class. Technology and infrastructure can be used by students to tutor children from the lower strata of society. Students can also use this platform to upload testimonials after every community service activity. Some of the most effective cases may be chosen to be transferred to files of other classes. Through such effortless and mobile communication, students learn from each other, in order to enhance future activities.
We have the largest growing youth population in the world. We are it’s future. And thus, it is never too early to create a responsible society, a magnificent India.