''CHENNAI: Alleging that he was ragged and thrown from the fourth floor of the hostel building by some senior students, an engineering student has moved the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the State government to pay an interim compensation of Rs.5 lakh for treatment.''-Hindu dated 03,Feb, 2010.
I belive the root cause of Ragging in India in Colleges of all kind is the condition prevailing in the school system where the interaction between the various classes of students are kept to a minimum quoting reasons such as distraction from study and many others. This might look a little odd on the first glance. Let me bring out my view on this.
Teachers of today's school system believe that if they keep the students of various classes seperate, they can avoid all the problems that can occur between two people on their first interaction. It is a very old and well understood concept of team building that happens which will include the stage of finding fault with others and small skirmishes which is more common in a friendship. To avoid this, the school system, avoids having interaction between the students of various classes.
This only leads to a situation of ragging in college. Once the students are in college, and 90 percentage of the time in hostels, the students dont have a clue of things to come as there is no one to guide them in this phase on interacting with other students who are elder and younger to them. Even the wardens and lecturers feel these are petty things that are unavoidable. This leads to the situation where the senior student, only to show their dominance and due to the situation where they dont know how to start to interact with their younger counterparts, take part in ragging. This is more relevant in the rural scenario where still the way of life is more towards the survival of the fittest in physical terms.
The solution to this will be, that the students are allowed to interact more during their budding school days, more often with their senior and junior batches so that they dont form walls of superiority among them. This leads us to the situation of asking the ability of the teachers to bring this change.
That is a huge question which the so called scholars and bureaucrats and IAS officers, who occupy the seats of the Education Departments of the Government have to answer.
In an industrial setting, we would stay that an untrained workforce ( Teachers) in an improper work place (school) using an improper method (education system) is not to be blamed for a faulty product ( students).
Let the scholars and IAS officers of the Government find the root cause and then take some real corrective measures which will give a long lasting result.
5 Why? (Common in Problem solving for finding root cause problems in Industrial Setup)
1.Why ragging takes place?.
Senior students on interacting with junior students take part in ragging as they dont know how to interact.
2.Why do they dont know how to interact?.
They have not come under such situation.
3.Why have they not come under such interaction?.
Because they were avoided to interact in school days.
4. Why are they avoided to interact in school days?
The schooling systems believes it might lead to problems in the short run and want to avoid them.
5. Why do the schooling systems do this?.
Because they are not trained to counter these issues.
Solution
Proper training to be given in areas of child care, human psyschology, building up of young minds.
I would like to get some feedback on my thoughts and would like to correct my shortcoming in understanding this issue.
Photo http://devainet.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/himg.jpg..Hope they dont sue me for this...
Teachers of today's school system believe that if they keep the students of various classes seperate, they can avoid all the problems that can occur between two people on their first interaction. It is a very old and well understood concept of team building that happens which will include the stage of finding fault with others and small skirmishes which is more common in a friendship. To avoid this, the school system, avoids having interaction between the students of various classes.
This only leads to a situation of ragging in college. Once the students are in college, and 90 percentage of the time in hostels, the students dont have a clue of things to come as there is no one to guide them in this phase on interacting with other students who are elder and younger to them. Even the wardens and lecturers feel these are petty things that are unavoidable. This leads to the situation where the senior student, only to show their dominance and due to the situation where they dont know how to start to interact with their younger counterparts, take part in ragging. This is more relevant in the rural scenario where still the way of life is more towards the survival of the fittest in physical terms.
The solution to this will be, that the students are allowed to interact more during their budding school days, more often with their senior and junior batches so that they dont form walls of superiority among them. This leads us to the situation of asking the ability of the teachers to bring this change.
That is a huge question which the so called scholars and bureaucrats and IAS officers, who occupy the seats of the Education Departments of the Government have to answer.
In an industrial setting, we would stay that an untrained workforce ( Teachers) in an improper work place (school) using an improper method (education system) is not to be blamed for a faulty product ( students).
Let the scholars and IAS officers of the Government find the root cause and then take some real corrective measures which will give a long lasting result.
5 Why? (Common in Problem solving for finding root cause problems in Industrial Setup)
1.Why ragging takes place?.
Senior students on interacting with junior students take part in ragging as they dont know how to interact.
2.Why do they dont know how to interact?.
They have not come under such situation.
3.Why have they not come under such interaction?.
Because they were avoided to interact in school days.
4. Why are they avoided to interact in school days?
The schooling systems believes it might lead to problems in the short run and want to avoid them.
5. Why do the schooling systems do this?.
Because they are not trained to counter these issues.
Solution
Proper training to be given in areas of child care, human psyschology, building up of young minds.
I would like to get some feedback on my thoughts and would like to correct my shortcoming in understanding this issue.
Photo http://devainet.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/himg.jpg..Hope they dont sue me for this...
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