Core skills of people through education
virender kapoor
We need to Change our national Character through our huge education system.
‘Cultivate to Last’
Discipline and Core skills have to be the KRA of education if you want to turn around the nation.
Catch them young is the key to success.
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In this case it should be bottom upwards and not top down approach. We may have a principal who is disciplined but it is still not the KRA for the school. It should be a part of the school motto- with a sense of pride where a principal and every student could say ‘No child from this school will ever be late for an event throughout his life’. It is engrained into you like a part of your DNA. That is the level of perfection we need to achieve. If anyone fails to do it, he is not bothered about the punishment but bothered more about letting down his school and letting down himself. Discipline and honor are pride and pride is emotionally driven.
Schools touch every child or alternately, every child has to enter the portals of a school. There are 15 lac or 1500,000 (1.5 million) schools in India and the battle must start here, if we want success.
These core skills need to be literally injected at a very early stage of life and class 1 student is 6 year old. By the time you are 18 your, ideas are pretty firmed up and you refuse to learn; but if you have been injected with this core skill virus or bug at 6 years of age and constantly hammered into you for the entire schooling period we can expect a higher success rate. It then gets into a higher order in under graduation and PG. These have to a few core habits which become a reflex action.Habits die hard and habits form harder.
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.” ― Mark Twain
The challenge is not limited to students; it is a problem with teachers too. Teachers training also must have this as a front runner. Special core skill courses have to be done and mandatory for employment. B Ed is not about pedagogy or teaching skills alone, core skills must spread across as a parallel curriculum.
Unfortunately even today despite better salaries good people are not coming to take up a job as school teachers. They may not be very great at academics and ramping up that is a huge challenge for schooling system, but you don’t have to be a great subject matter expert to learn and practice and propagate these core skills to the children. You may not be a great economics teacher but you can be punctual. In fact learning these is much simpler than becoming a great math teacher. Even the low performing teachers can learn these and that is the bright side of the problem. An average or below average teacher or even a student can acquire these habits.
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This whole national level game changer exercise can be a success if practiced and not preached. It has to be our national agenda we need to hold the baton tight for decades on to set things right.
“Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.”
1. Punctuality
2. Nation first
3. Organisational loyalty
4. Respecting authority
5. Will not do wrong and will not let anyone do wrong
6. Integrity integrity integrity
7. Value of time.
8. Perfection and pride
9. My work is the best
10. Using retired armed forces officers to bring good habits to schools
11. Do one good a day for the nation
12. Don’t support dharnas — no output
13. Contribute to your organization
14. Innovate creatively however small.
15. Motivate ten more people to be their best and be disciplined
16. Go Rural
17. Focus on Agri economy
18. AAb saab nahi chalta
19. Don’t criticize for the sake of it
20. Appreciate other persons problems
21. Diligent n dedication
22. Do it don’t debate
23. It’s time to act and not preach
24. No short cut to hard work
25. Entrepreneurs give jobs they don’t seek jobs
26. Kuch karna hai- kuch banana nahi hai
27. Work with your hands and respect the less fortunate
28. Zero tolerance to corruption
29. Earn respect- that’s the highest point to achieve
30. Follow the rules
31. Group before self- NDA example Squadron BN, Academy
32. Honor
33. Sense of collective good
34. Organized
35. Cleanliness
36. Don’t forget your roots
37. Pride
38. Stop criticizing your country- look at that part of glass that is full
39. Count your blessings s a nation
40. Accept no nonsense
41. Plan plan plan before execution
42. Coordinate with others — v imp habit
43. Thorough in your work- no one can do better than this or could I do better than this?
44. List things that we can be proud of and repeat like a parrot every day
45. Let your home look good from the outside too
46. Train the trainers
47. Character of a school first
48. Key to success- take most important ten points- max dozen else we will fail.
Five personality traits of German people
- Efficient and disciplined. German people are hardworking, efficient and disciplined. …
- Sense of humor. Do Germans have a sense of humor? …
- Well-organised. Germans love to plan things. …
- Punctual. Germans are known for their punctuality. …
- Traditional.
