Well.. we were discussing children at home and my husband mentioned about an incident which affected him quite a bit in school. One of his classmates scored a 1.5 out of 100 in history. My husband himself was a poor reader and scored some 60 or 70. He was shocked at how low someone could score. He was trying to decipher what was wrong.
Either the student had no interest in studies or reading in general.
Maybe he was frightened that he could not study or frightened that he was lagging behind.
Given any of these cases, what helps? Maybe delivering the subject in an easy manner, helps. Maybe we could strengthen the boy's nature so that he gets rid of his fear for studies or fear of lagging behind. How many schools, atleast during our times, would do that? How many parents, would do that?
I know a lot of people who hate studying, who hate preparing for exams. I have no clue what kind of torture they go through in school. Their mind could be in arts or music or sports. I don't know how they would have dreaded each day, each class. We go through almost 21 or more years of education and it would be such a pity going through classes with fear and anxiety instead of joy and curiosity.
When I saw a Waldorf lecture where a teacher spoke about a poor reader, I was astonished. This particular guy had no interest in reading, while his whole class read a lot. Suddenly in 7th grade or so, he looked around, found everyone around him reading and he started growing a desire to read and his life changed a lot. When you have an empathising teacher around - who instead of frightening you, empathises with you and helps you to overcome your own deficiency, that - is heaven... Most of us never had that fortune!
Either the student had no interest in studies or reading in general.
Maybe he was frightened that he could not study or frightened that he was lagging behind.
Given any of these cases, what helps? Maybe delivering the subject in an easy manner, helps. Maybe we could strengthen the boy's nature so that he gets rid of his fear for studies or fear of lagging behind. How many schools, atleast during our times, would do that? How many parents, would do that?
I know a lot of people who hate studying, who hate preparing for exams. I have no clue what kind of torture they go through in school. Their mind could be in arts or music or sports. I don't know how they would have dreaded each day, each class. We go through almost 21 or more years of education and it would be such a pity going through classes with fear and anxiety instead of joy and curiosity.
When I saw a Waldorf lecture where a teacher spoke about a poor reader, I was astonished. This particular guy had no interest in reading, while his whole class read a lot. Suddenly in 7th grade or so, he looked around, found everyone around him reading and he started growing a desire to read and his life changed a lot. When you have an empathising teacher around - who instead of frightening you, empathises with you and helps you to overcome your own deficiency, that - is heaven... Most of us never had that fortune!
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