siliconindia | | December 20198IN MY VIEWMusic runs in Rahul's blood. He sleeps & breathes music ever since he was six years old. He forced his parents to enroll him for music classes. He knew from the very beginning that music is his calling. What he didn't know was that his direction and passion wasn't enough. There were gaps in his education that made his higher education in music dif-ficult to pursue, and he was heartbroken knowing that all his passion, hours of learning music, practicing was not enough for him to get admission in a music college. The reality is, Rahul isn't the only one who sees his dreams shattering like this. There are lakhs of other chil-dren like him who suffer because our current curriculum of education doesn't prepare the child and strengthen their talent. As a result, the child ends-up believing they don't have what it takes. They can never be that singer, musi-cian, painter, radio jockey or chef that they wanted to be, or they feel they have wasted a lot of time doing noth-ing and now it's too late. At the same time, parents worry about their child's future. Not to miss, all the money wast-ed on the `education', which resulted in nothing. Before changing anything outside, as parents, we need to check our own behavior and ask ourselves ­ Are we letting our children to be who they want to be, or are we trying to fulfill our own desires on our child by forcing them to get into a skill or career because they are getting paid well. These are the concerns which we need to seri-ously look into, as the extraordinary talent of the country chooses to serve foreign companies. They do so for better life & opportunities; hence we have no one else to blame for it but us. Needless to say, we need to have a special-By Indu Jain, Founder & CEO, Key2practiceAn IIT Delhi alumnus, Indu has over two decades of experience in the Education industry, and has also authored textbooks for primary school.VALUE EDUCATION IN SHAPING THE YOUNG MINDS
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