ECCE urgently calls for our attention that it richly
deserves. Though from the womb to tomb, education plays a vital role in our
being and becoming, the first childhood years are the most crucial period in
the lifetime of a human being in which the knowledge he gets can determines his
physical and intellectual well-being of his future. The
child’s physical growth including the growth of brain in this period is the
result of nourishment and the mental development is attributed to the type and
form of education he is exposed to.
The child after birth
gets its first education at home at least for the first two to three years and
afterwards from schools, if admitted. The fact is that a major percentage of
child population does not get to school until the age of 6, which leaves them
in the hands of ‘home’ for education.
Education at homes that comes with a recipe, whose adaptability
to social norms and mental development theories being vague, has to be tested
before given for tasting. But where is parental education in our society to
throw light on child rearing practices befitting normal development of mind and
its faculties? The nourishment requires for the child is mired by male-female
prejudices and the mental development is marred by family prejudices and whims.
The search for corrective course is of national importance
The child’s mind is a seed having the potential to blossom
with all its bees in a caring and nurturing environment. It is not an empty
pail to be filled-in. It has the repository of the universal knowledge carried
through the genes, but inert and latent, requiring a correct tapping mechanism
for its full-blown functioning. Homes where the child has the opportunity of
hearing the loving and caring voices of parents, grandparents and relatives – a
continuing exposure to the mind to function – are well suited for positive
mental development. In nuclear families parental time is rationed and the child
is left to the care of childcare homes, where ‘real love and care’ is a matter
of speculation and the child’s exposures is limited resulting in below par mental
development
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