Home Schooling- A truth since decades in India!

With Lockdown and Coronavirus taking the attention of the world it is but obvious for the parents to get concern about their wards or pupils. What is the bigger thought is that how safe are our children when it comes to sending them to school after lockdown gets over. Now, think about the people of Bengal and Bihar during the later phase of Indian Independence and even after India achieved it, the educational institutes were less and eminent scholars like Mr. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and many other were given education at home.

The rich Bengal people use to have a Muslim and English teacher for the people at home and the local language which is Bangla was even taught by them along with Mathematics. If today you talk about Bijganit in English which is Algebra then any women will jokingly say it about the existence of Period but Algebra, Pythagoras Theorem, Geometry and many others were a part and parcel of the curriculum even at home.

Now one could say that "Home Schooling-A truth since decades in India" which is all about giving basic education to the students till the age of Class V and then introducing them to the school from where onwards he or she can get into the mainstream. Many of us who are educated with the thought of becoming an educationist follow the education to the core at least in our own subject and know how to teach the needy so that they can grow much above than any others.

So, what we can say is that as the new education policy has given an opportunity to the students for helping themselves into mainstream as and when they desire home schooling can be a great option. There are many tutorials in the nearby neighborhood where some of the good educated minds teach with great attention and one can send the students to such places for education without taking the burden of early years of education.

The class 1 to 5 in schools are more or less a preparatory level where students learn basic behavior, moral aspect and how to treat the teacher with respect. Once he or she reaches Class Vi they tend to learn more and for me education is an ongoing process which continues throughout the life rather than continuing with the aspect of compulsion.

With many American schools taking into the home schooling and then getting back towards education while at higher standards shows that they are following the trends of educating their children all about the lifestyle and advancement because many a times because of the pressure such students who grow up with some of them feeling tortured resort to using guns at schools.

In this way, it is not necessary to go for a compulsion in the name of big schools and even the boarding ones but an educated home tutor or even the uncle and aunts could be a bigger source of education which will give a better educated mind at the higher level as Sri Rabindranath Tagore or Gurudev said that " Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free". The mind is without fear only when it is educated ( into your own work and getting excel in it )with no problems associated in life.