Learning outside school

Learning outside school.

I am just very curious to know as to when was the phrase .. today's children are tomorrow's citizens coined?Did a generation produce the adults it wanted( or is it the adult population they wanted to produce)??....What example of a citizen do the children have to emulate?There is also an adgae ..as you sow so you reap. In what ambience do the children grow?What is their perception of a citizen's rights and duties..??The adults of today had education not different from the children of this day. What examples are they setting to the future generation??
Come environment day.. the children are asked to dream and draw of a serene place of which they have no clue!The organisers of these days cannot think beyond these activities. Children paint and write slogans and go round the town/ village....crying feebly about saving forests, wild life etc.,People hardly listen!I find it rather out of place when children in the rural areas enact the same like those of their brethern in the urban areas( who comparatively consume more resources. Their heroes are BIG consumers!!)..What are the adults doing on that day?? And every day??
They continue to throw garbage on the streets,use water indiscriminately, create noise pollution, accept the bad roads..inefficient water supply.....accept/ give bribe , flout traffic rules, building laws, wildlife laws..........The message is loud and clear... this is how you live!What you did in school I also did. Do it . Forget it! What your school says need not be followed!
a child was writing a persuasive essay on .. conserve electricity......
The boy comes for a rural area where there is no power for at least 10 hrs a day.When questioned about it he innocently said.. no akka, people in the town have to run industries .. so there is 24 hrs power supply !Where did the child learn this??He has already sacrificed his share of power for the ( rich) brethren of the town before he has experienced it!He thinks this is how it is !Can the lesson on citizenship dare tell him that he has equal rights to power??( electricity!!).. clean water.. good health.. quality education??
When ever there is a talk of morals it is a head of a mutt or a sect .. who is invited. the speaker boldly says... today's education is destroying the moral fabric of the society. I am yet to hear about a report on amoral being a part of the curriculum or any teacher indulging in teaching children about it . It is not what goes on in the school that influences the child strongly .. but what happens outside it! There is more( amoral) learning outside school then in school. The children come to school only to write and pass exams. It is the society that has reduced the school to a machine.Not the teachers alone!It is the only profession where the private teachers make less money than the government brethren and where there is accountability demanded from all!Chances of making fast buck through bribes are very less!Being a teacher is not lucrative!! A teacher’s job is insignificant.