Management in Career (Part-1)

EDUCATION OR LABOUR

Q1. What is education?

Ans1. Education is the process of facilitating, learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits. Educational methods include teaching, training, storytelling, discussion and directed research.

Q2. What is Rights To Education?

Ans 2. The Right to Education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, compulsory primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all, on particular by the progressive introduction of free secondary education as well as an obligation to develop equitable access to higher education, ideally by the progressive introduction of free higher education.

Q3. What does Right To Education (ARTICLE 21A) says?

Ans 3. Added by 86th Amendment Act, 2002, The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted on 4 August 2009 which made education for all of the age of 6 to 14 years a Fundamental right.

Article 26: Right to Education says:

• Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
• Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
• Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 26(2)- Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for maintenance of peace.

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS[ARTICLE 26(1)]

Everyone has a right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all, on the basis of merits.

UDHR 1947, Education as both Duty and Right

• "every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedom."
• "everyone has the right to education" (e.g. form of physical education)
• "shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms".

Q4. What is Child Labour?

Ans 4. Child Labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interfere with their ability to attend regular school and is mentally, physically, socially or morally harmful.

Now in countries like India child labour is something which is very common. Across the streets we see children working in small tea/coffee shops or in dhabas serving plates of food in such a age when they should have been playing with their friends. There are lakhs of families in India who are illiterate and just for having a boy child they get four to five children per family and once they have them, they lack they financial capacity to feed them and automatically educating them becomes something impossible. They live on the footpaths and just to earn money to fulfil their basic needs their children goes from one place to another in search of food and money. sometimes they beg, sometimes they become the victim of dangerous crimes like kidnapping and trafficking.

There are cases where families don't even bother to file a police case and in most case scenario they sell their girl child for a small amount. At the same time children from the rich families goes to school, have fun with their friends, get educated and enjoy a bright future. The small businessmen even after knowing everything about this child labour keep these small children as because they don't charge a huge amount in return of their services and just for some amount they happily destroy their childhood.

These children watch the other rich children growing up slowly and they get sad and they even want to make friends with those rich children but sometimes their bosses scold them and sometimes their parents don't allow them. This is the point where Indi falls back as these children are the future of the nation and if these children don't get educated even they will be illiterate people and they will exactly repeat the same mistake with their children which their parents did and hence this thing will get repeated each and every time and thus a huge part of the Indian population will remain illiterates and will increase in future and until and unless they get educated they won't have a good future and they will continue to remain in the slums and instead of contributing anything for their country, they just waste their country's resources and their country in return get deprived of the enormous amount of talents these children have and we could only imagine what could have been the scenario if these children got educated, got accepted in the society, understood their talents, got sufficient platforms to showcase their talents and where they could have uplifted their country's image.

Instead they are seen working in small shops washing plates and serving food and get bad behavior in return and in the age when they should have enjoyed life they are understanding the harsh reality of the society and they receive the hatred from the rest of the society because in the so called nation people don't accept these children as they think that it will be bad for their image and will hurt their status. Sometimes children suffering from crimes like child labour are not allowed to go to places where rich people go and enjoy and they don't get permission to enter and do what rich people can do easily and just by looking at their clothes they are chased back at the gates and are insulted heavily. They are only accepted in such paces as slaves who will be taking orders at the age when they should be receiving love.

Child Labour deprives children not only from their childhood but also from a good society, a school, teachers who could have shown them the right path. On the other hand, education now is like a business and the education system and process in countries like India is a kind of machine manufacturing individuals who mostly like to do hard work instead of smart work. Our education system makes us undergo a process where we have to mug up everything in front of us instead of understanding and enjoying and those who are able to mug up everything scores good marks and just the marks in their marksheet and few mugged up answers fetches them a good job and they get settled in life and it continues. Our education system gives maximum priority to studies rather than analyzing the student's true potential in a particular field and identifying his/her talent and forcefully making them do stuff which others are doing. Very few are there who shows the courage to against the system and showcase their true potential and talent to the whole world and making a name for themselves. Even if they try to show the courage they are either stopped by their parents or the teachers and therefore they lose confidence and thus become a part of the system. They just be normal when they could be fantastic. 

We have examples in our country itself like M.S. Dhoni, one of the successful batsman we have who in his childhood showed more importance to sports rather than studies and the most important thing is he got support from his family which gave him confidence and he worked hard, showed his talent to the whole world and now the whole world knows him and one can only imagine that where he would have been if he was asked to be a singer or a dancer in his childhood.

In our country it is not identified that which child is interested to study which subject, it's just like ten subjects are put on the child's shoulder and he/she has to excel in all of them and therefore whether or not he/she is interested to learn and know about a subject, he/she will have to mug up the entire thing sometimes even without understanding anything and if by chance his/her marks area bit low in any particular subject he/she gets a tight scolding. A student might be interested to learn one particular subject but just because he has to learn few other subjects he couldn't focus on his strong point and therefore he will not be able to perform well in that subjects and the other subjects he might not like and is forced to do so and therefore couldn't perform well in those as well but based on his hard work he can be good in all but not best for anything.

None is interested to know their field on interest, it's just like they have to do it like they are a machine in which all the materials are poured in and they just have to compile everything. Whether or not he/she is liking the subject, they are not given the freedom to choose their own field just whatever the system is giving them they have to take it whether they like it or not and sometimes their parents are just interested in the child's marks in the marksheet not on his/her problems.

So automatically even this becomes child labour as the child is not liking a few subject but still he/she is forced to do so i.e. against his/her interests. Therefore two things are happening, either a child is not getting the opportunity to study and get educated and is forced to work at a very early age which is child labour and second even when the child is getting an opportunity to gt educated he/she if forced to learn stuff which he/she may not like or is against his/her will and interests and in my view point forcing a child to do something that he/she is not liking is again child labour.

In countries like India, there is rules and regulations for everything but the fact is all of them are not followed and few are not properly implemented and few are getting affected because of some other reasons like in this case child labour is increasing because there are not rules for family panning and therefore families who don't have the capacity to raise even two children are having four children and that to even for having a boy child which is wrong conception for not having proper education. Therefore the whole thing is like a chain and all the element are connected to each other and once we start working on a particular element automatically others will also start developing and the country as a whole will be highly benefitted.