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“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” – Socrates
We always seek knowledge and are always eager to know what we do not know. Knowledge can be gained in different ways and from different sources. Knowledge is best obtained through school education. School education facilitates the holistic development of a child. Holistic development is a comprehensive learning approach aiming to develop multiple facets or abilities of a human brain. Holistic education aims to create life-long learners and learners who can learn from life’s experiences. However, it is often wondered, if school education is sufficient to provide all-around support and training to gain hands-on experience, social skills, communication, creativity, and basic technology skills.
A lot of knowledge was gained by our grandparents and parents as they were avid readers. We can still see that our parents and their parents used to read books and newspapers regularly and thoroughly. Even though there was neither an internet facility nor any fast communication services in the yesteryears, people used to have more knowledge as they were habitual readers. Even people who were illiterate but knowledgeable as they used to listen to All India Radio daily for news or entertainment. As information used to come from various sources like newspapers, magazines, radio, and later on from TV, the information was used to be accumulated and converted into effective articles and lectures.
People of yesteryears were avid readers and listeners which also helped (to some extent) them in public speaking. The habit of being readers and listeners made people develop their social and communication skills effectively. The closed society also played a major role in building social and communication skills. Be it a festival at the ‘Moholla’ or ‘Adda’ at the tea stall, people used to gather together and do group activities.
Modern Technology has bought information to one and all and people all around the world can now have access to any type of information if they are connected to the World Wide Web. Modern technology has brought information pouring within seconds and made people come closer. However, modern technology has made people less inclined towards books and newspapers. Our children, nowadays, read fewer books that are outside the curriculum and, therefore, do not gain full or in-depth knowledge on various topics. They are more inclined towards getting information on the internet.
It has been found, according to a youth survey conducted across India in 2019 that 28 percent of the respondents had read a book outside their curriculum in the previous week from the date of the survey. At the same time, 27 percent of the youth respondents reported having read an extra-curriculum book over a month back [1]. This trend of not reading books outside the curriculum is more observed in children.
Since children nowadays are more inclined to read from the internet in the form of blogs and online articles, we, the adults may not be able to change this habit and suddenly make them inclined towards books and paper-based articles. So, it would be useful, if information-based and resourceful blogs written by experts can provide learning among them and make them up-to-date on different topics.
Again, according to the statistical analysis [2], based on a survey conducted in 2020, it was found that more than a larger share of the print books readership in India, (about 64 percent), was constituted by those aged 34 years or younger in the post lockdown period. Comparatively, respondents aged 35 years and above held a larger share of e-book readership in India since the lockdown. India underwent multiple lockdowns between mid-March and July 2020.
But still, it has been observed that children nowadays lack social and communication skills. Lack of social skills is due to more isolation in the home and society. Extended use of smartphones and the internet can also be a reason for the lack of social skills amongst children as they are more used to mobile phones than playing or having group activities with their peers. Also, it is observed, that this type of isolation can lead to a lack of communication skills affecting their academic potential and later on in their working life.
Thus, it is absolutely necessary for children to be trained in developing social and communication skills in their growing years so that they can develop themselves to be effective writers and speakers, writers and listeners, and expresses themselves fully before the world.
References:
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1242556/india-reading-trends-post-lockdown-by-age/
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