“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Gandhi
Great words by Gandhi ji but the truth is we are dyeing with pressure of having exams tomorrow isn’t it? Exactly.
There are certain things in the education system which doesn’t appeal learning in fact they focus more on achieving better marks .education was meant to be the way towards learning rather than achieving …
Learning through experiences, through experimenting ,through the way we wish to ,we will surely fall somewhere but will learn with that too…
will make mistake but will surely learn to find some way to get out of that ….
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” —C.S. Lewis
we just need the permission ,permission to find our own directions we wanted to fly through ,and that’s what we call empowerment.
The term empowerment refers to measures designed to increase the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities in order to enable them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority. It is the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one’s life and claiming one’s rights .
Now talking about student empowerment ,
Student empowerment is any attitudinal, structural, and cultural activity, process or outcome where students of any age gain the ability, authority and agency to make decisions and implement changes in their own schools, learning and education, and in the education of other people, including fellow students of any age and adults throughout education.
In simpler words when people like your fellow mates get some authority to make relevant changes in the school or education system on account of entire student league or should I say on the behalf of all the students known as student empowerment.
Well when we hear this word student empowerment this sounds quiet alien to us because we have heard about women empowerment ,but never student empowerment ,see we are not the weaker section of the society but we are the future of this society and when it comes to learning this can’t be bounded within few hours or can’t be tied with a list of protocols .
We pay ,we follow,we obey,we memorize but do we really learn by this…?
Silence !!!…keep quite ,pin drop silence…
Remember this ?
Why miss? Stand up !! get out of the class ,stand for the whole period , remember all those punishments?
But miss I was just asking something …no you were disturbing the class …raise your hands …
Tell me what does that teaches you accept that teachers are not lovable accept that you need to stay quite until you were asked to speak…was that education any way ? was that meant to be learn ?
Well if you ask me that was just a training ,ya training for how to be a robot ,lifeless speechless just runs on a certain set of instructions ….
We are not machine made of muscles and nerves these nerves do leads to the brain which in return releases certain hormones that’s how we poses emotions …
I usually don’t like reading certain subjects when I don’t like the teacher at all …it takes me hard efforts to fulfil my target of 75% attendance ya somehow I passed the exams but if you are thinking you may ask something related I m sorry I haven t learned anything …
By the time when I’ve realized that this process wont lead me towards learning so I betrayed .No didn’t give up or else I dint threw up some march or something I just started learning things the way I wanted to but that wasn’t good enough to achieve marks right ? because you ultimately had to be in this flock of sheep , for that I need certificates ,a job so at the end we came to the point we have started from ….because a single man couldn’t bring up a big change but ya small small changes could lead to the big one…..and that’s why we need get empowered.
We need to get empowered so that we at least learn something in real when we say we are educated …
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” —Goethe
Lets make ourselves to be worth educated by learning not by achieving ….
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” —William Butler Yeats
Be proud to be a student because learning is tough not the teaching ….
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