Ever Wondered whether your child has moral values? Did you ever inspired or motivated your child to walk on the right path? The answer could be a mix of both yes or no isn't it.
In present times, a child is put through lot of pressures to compete and excel in studies especially when it comes to securing an outstanding cutoff percentile. But in the melee a student may excel in his studies but miserably fails in understanding the moral values.
In his series of many inspirational and motivational stories, comes yet another story about school children hailing from the Steel City of Jamshedpur, commonly known as the home of Tata Steel. Well one fine saturday of 28th June at the Tatanagar railway station, about 130 young children assembled with brooms and buckets to clean the railway station. The children were not child labors but were the students of Class XIth and studied at the prominent Tarapur School. The school authorities had send them under a special project called "Jamshedpur I Care". The idea of the school management was to inspire and motivate children to do "Shramdaan" (Physical Work or Manual Labor) and develop in them the qualities which shall make them a better and responsible citizens.
The students were accompanied by their teachers, who divided themselves into groups, which had reached the station by 8:30 in the morning. In flat three hours they cleaned up every nook and corner of the railway station besides the main approach road which leads to the station. The idea was to tell people that it was very easy to maintain cleanliness at the public places, provided you love your city which inspire and motivate you to keep it clean.
It wasn't easy for the school children to clean the station as about 86 trains pass through Tatanagar Railway Station and with an assembly of about 60,000 people daily. It's a tough job to clean the station that too by the school going children. But the children were determined and unmoved by any of these unfavorable situation. They cleaned and cleaned it well, as they not only motivated and inspired other children to not to litter but also taught befitting lesson to reckless people who were ashamed of their actions.
There is no dearth of dustbins at the stations but people still litter at will and later curse municipal employees for not maintaining cleanliness in the city. But in Tatanagar there was a distinct change because of the efforts of "Shramdaan" put in by the children specially the youths who were behaving responsibly to not to litter at public places in comparison to common man.
N Raghuraman says that,"such type of "shramdaan" manual work has always attracted him, as he feels that in mega cities such efforts are randomly seen. Even at home if you ask your children to clean up the home they feel it as a burden and look the other way around, like my daughter. Once her mother asked her to help clean the home, and there she was with a classic dialogue," don't you know its illegal to ask children to work, it doesn't go well with parents who are educated and are breaking the law."
The rules are quite strict abroad, if any child is caught by the traffic policeman jumping red light, then he or she is posted at the traffic island for the day and is asked to manage the traffic along with the traffic policeman and is asked to come next day after writing in their experiences. The youth realizes the mistake which is committed and is more awared of the traffic rules. This is another classic example of telling them what is right and what is wrong. It also serves the purpose to inspire and motivate them to become responsible citizens which could only be possible when they are taught Moral Values. The need of the hour.
It is commonly understood that with "Sattvagun" good deeds one gets human life, "Rajogun" helps it to run it and conserve life, "Tamogun" bad deeds destroys life. These traits of deeds could only be understood by humans as they are the ones who gets the power of discretion, but like fools we ignore "Satt and Raj". We humans are being overpowered by Bad Deeds which leads to destructive traits or actions, as a result one can see environmental imbalance, pollution levels are alarming, Trees are being cut, many at times rains do not fall, Indian's rely majorly on rains and which is a well known fact among children too. We are also aware that only we are responsible for it, but still we do not realize. What an irony.
The moral of this inspirational and motivational, eye opening column by N Raghuraman is to inspire and motivate us to be more receptive to our moral values and duties. He feels that if youth of any nation is taught moral values then we can see positive change in the world.
There is no dearth of dustbins at the stations but people still litter at will and later curse municipal employees for not maintaining cleanliness in the city. But in Tatanagar there was a distinct change because of the efforts of "Shramdaan" put in by the children specially the youths who were behaving responsibly to not to litter at public places in comparison to common man.
N Raghuraman says that,"such type of "shramdaan" manual work has always attracted him, as he feels that in mega cities such efforts are randomly seen. Even at home if you ask your children to clean up the home they feel it as a burden and look the other way around, like my daughter. Once her mother asked her to help clean the home, and there she was with a classic dialogue," don't you know its illegal to ask children to work, it doesn't go well with parents who are educated and are breaking the law."
The rules are quite strict abroad, if any child is caught by the traffic policeman jumping red light, then he or she is posted at the traffic island for the day and is asked to manage the traffic along with the traffic policeman and is asked to come next day after writing in their experiences. The youth realizes the mistake which is committed and is more awared of the traffic rules. This is another classic example of telling them what is right and what is wrong. It also serves the purpose to inspire and motivate them to become responsible citizens which could only be possible when they are taught Moral Values. The need of the hour.
It is commonly understood that with "Sattvagun" good deeds one gets human life, "Rajogun" helps it to run it and conserve life, "Tamogun" bad deeds destroys life. These traits of deeds could only be understood by humans as they are the ones who gets the power of discretion, but like fools we ignore "Satt and Raj". We humans are being overpowered by Bad Deeds which leads to destructive traits or actions, as a result one can see environmental imbalance, pollution levels are alarming, Trees are being cut, many at times rains do not fall, Indian's rely majorly on rains and which is a well known fact among children too. We are also aware that only we are responsible for it, but still we do not realize. What an irony.
The moral of this inspirational and motivational, eye opening column by N Raghuraman is to inspire and motivate us to be more receptive to our moral values and duties. He feels that if youth of any nation is taught moral values then we can see positive change in the world.
बच्चों को नैतिक शिक्षा देने के लिए प्रैक्टिकल सबक जरूरी
मैनेजमेंट फंडा - एन. रघुरामन
झारखंड में जमशेदपुर के टाटानगर स्टेशन पर बीते शनिवार (28 जून) अलग ही सीन था। करीब 130 छोटे-छोटे बच्चे हाथ में झाड़ू और बाल्टियां लिए स्टेशन की सफाई में जुटे थे। ये बाल मजदूर नहीं बल्कि प्रतिष्ठित तारापुर स्कूल में 11वीं कक्षा के छात्र थे। इन्हें स्कूल ने 'जमशेदपुर आइ केयर' प्रोजेक्ट के तहत स्टेशन पर भेजा था। इस प्रोजेक्ट का मकसद है, 'श्रमदान और ऐसे ही कामों के जरिए बच्चों में अच्छे नागरिक के गुण विकसित करना।'
समूहों में बंटे इन बच्चों के साथ स्कूल टीचर भी थे। सभी सुबह 8.30 बजे स्टेशन पहुंच गए। तीन घंटे में इन्होंने स्टेशन का कोना-कोना और स्टेशन की ओर आने वाली सड़क को चमका दिया। बच्चे इस मिसाल से लोगों को बताना चाहते थे कि सार्वजनिक जगहों को साफ-सुथरा रखना बड़ा आसान है। बशर्ते आप अपने शहर से लगाव रखते हैं, उसे स्वच्छ रखने की इच्छा रखते हैं।
Source: Practical Lessons Are Necessary To Teach Children Moral Values - Management Funda By N. Raghuraman - Dainik Bhaskar 1st July 2014
