In the competitive world of children education, forcing children to begin their formal education at a very early age and focusing most of their time on school studies are controversial. However, school studies are not the only important subject that children should learn. Also, concentrating merely on the studies disrupts the way of innovative thinking.
First of all, there are a variety of crucial parts that children should acquire excluding the school studies. Some of the parts are manner, etiquette and social roles. These sorts are not easily enlightened by formal teaching styles or text books but through hand-on experience such as games and sports. Through active learning style, children can naturally learn how to act in a certain situation such as admitting the loss of the game, the way of showing the sense of etiquette to others like encouraging the teammates and being responsible for the allocated role including being a leader. In this respect, children should be exposed to other various activities other than stuck in school studies.
Furthermore, school studies may lock the potential of creative and innovative thinking style as it only stress the facts, formulas and rules on particular topics. On the other hand, creative activities such as designing, playing the instruments, and participating in sports, enhance the unique ways of solving the problems. To illustrate, there is a famous anecdote about a wise mother. The son of her spilt the milk while trying to reach for it, but his mother did not get upset with him whereas ordinary mothers would scold the baby. Instead, she allowed her son play with the milk splashing, touching and observing, then let him to clean up. This is a true story of a worldwide famous scientist Einstein. Ultimately, it can be learnt from this story that school works are not the only way of learning and developing creativity.
In conclusion, planning too much time on formal education will not always benefit growing children. Other activities should be conducted at school and at home for the sake of children's learning about social roles and building up the skills of creativity and practicing innovative thinking. |