g x e = p

The making of a human is by fortifying minds, and yet, liberating thoughts. Children have certain attributes, which they inherit biologically and carry for life. However, what truly sculpts their character is their environment and their nurturing. A child absorbs as it sees, what it sees, it becomes.

Therefore, g×e = p; genetics coupled with environment, is an individual’s personality. A child’s environment is its home, its neighbourhood, and its school. A child gradually absorbs the habits and conduct of those around him or her, and is subconsciously being carved by the environment. These influences become conscious and the environment can passively become a child’s foremost teacher. A child’s environment must work in consonance with the ambience that he or she requires.

The parent at home stands behind the teacher, the teacher at school stands behind the parent. One works with the other, to recognise a child’s natural proclivities, to satiate a child’s instinctive appetites, and to amplify his or her virtues and talents. To nurture, is to provide a child this blend of an environment that uplifts and stimulates a child’s spirit.

The school’s environment subliminally permeates a child’s mind, and passively develops personality. The stories that one hears in school, the history that creates awe and wonder, the problem solving character that is formed, the art that lights up imagination is the subliminal influence that is creating a child’s personality. A healthy synergy in the environment creates innovators, adventurers, academicians, explorers, artists, but more importantly, it creates mindful human beings.

To Express & Experiment: Free expression and articulation are simple life skills, almost inane in how easy they look, and yet they are elemental to one’s person. To be able to convince another of your idea, to be able to present a subject with alacrity, to translate thought into speech is essential for a well formed personality. Debate and public speaking are not specialised talents to pursue, but essential social skills with which we ought to equip a child.

The school plays an integral role in proliferating the skills of public speaking, presentations and debate. Children are equipped with a gift of the gab in varying degrees, and they habitually begin to recite poetry, shlokas, Indian as well as global literature, as also speak their mind on topical subjects. This passively cultivates a steadfast and independent voice within a child. The school equips children to seek knowledge from around the globe, to be able to express universal ideas, without rupturing the child’s inalienable link with his mother tongue and his homeland.

Participating in school and dipping your ink in oratorial and artistic instincts, makes those skills a matter of common existence, instead of viewing them as rare magic that blooms in few.