In a normal journey of life one will think to tread on a pathway whereby you meet someone you love, build a happy family and become parents to lovely kids. This would usually be the ideal life of a normal, peace-seeking individual. Nevertheless, it is never an easy path being a good parent as there are many things in life you have to juggle simultaneously while keeping your minds sane.
In many popular beliefs especially in the Asian culture make reference to Confucius in particular, parents are revered to be of utmost importance and expected to be highly respected by their children. Parents play such an important role in their kids life and also indirectly shaping their children’s behavior, attitude and personality. Nowadays, the most common scene you can always see is the parents’ impact or involvement in their children’s education.
Checking into the debate of whether parents should actually be involved in the educational process is very much up to different individuals’ perspective. There is no wrong or right perception in this matter.
Hands On Experience
As the persons that the growing children depend and rely upon , parents have hands on knowledge and experience in dealing with the day-to-day tantrums, issues and necessities. With that, involving parents in the educational process is an advantage rather than disadvantage. Younger kids/generation nowadays have different thinking or views and may not like the old school way of teaching by using the carrot and stick approach. They definitely prefer the softer approach where teachers or educators sit and listen to their thoughts before explaining to them and reasoning with them what to do and what ought not to do.
With parents being involved in providing their experiences and insights on how they manage their younger kids, the teachers or educators will be able to come up with a more effective teaching method in order to be able to grasp the attention of these youngsters and ensure they benefit from the teachings or classes they attend at school or any educational institution so to say.
Involved One
Being dedicated parents, you will always want the best for your children. They are usually the ones involved in almost everything related with their kids whether it is in their education, friends and other extracurricular activities. With that mindset and motivation in mind, if the parents are provided the platform to suggest improvements or ideas within the means of the school that will definitely give the education system new or alternative ideas on whether our education process is currently working or not. This is because being the involved one, they know exactly how and what the children need or what the children’s weaknesses are.
This may be a positive trigger to re-think and give the educators the “What-If” thinking too. Sometimes being too long into your comfort zone, individuals might be reluctant to change the current education process. This is pretty much risky as the old methodology of education may not necessarily serve its purpose for the newer, younger generations.
Educated One
More and more individuals are provided with education in most countries in the world these days resulting in the increasing number of parents who are educated. With more educated parents, having them provide ideas to better enhance the quality of the education system would be great. Parents may be made up of different education backgrounds ie. medical, law, finance and many others. Great minds think alike and most would agree that all have the same goal which is to ensure the current educational process will benefit their children.
Having a good and diverse source of ideas from these parents will most probably keep the current educational process in check and will also ensure that the system is able to keep up and is relevant to the younger kids nowadays. In this ever changing world, no one system can cater for all. No matter in which industry you are, adapting and being flexible is key to long term success.
Coupled with strong working knowledge and experience, they may even provide some real life scenarios that they may have encountered from their working experience, say in terms of dealing with difficult staff or team or how they manage to find an effective way to keep the discipline of their workers intact, ways to impart more effective training in terms of skills and knowledge.
Voluntary Finance
Providing an avenue for parents to be directly involved in the educational process can be rewarding even in terms of financials too. As parents are able to see the fruitful results in terms of say their children’s results whether it is academically or extra-curricular activities after their inputs have been taken into account, within their means, they will be more than willing to provide a kind gesture of donation or financial assistance to the educational institutions or schools involved.
Additional finances for education is definitely much of a help to students in general. More advanced technologies can be invested for the betterment of the students. These schools are able to afford to engage other service providers to provide further diverse educational exposures to their students too.
All in all, the educational process is of utmost importance to the nation, to the country. With a strong foundation in the educational system of a country or a school/educational institution, generally the younger generations who will be the next in command in the future will be a stronger, more robust batch of leaders. This can ensure a brighter future for one’s country or nation. Making reference to this link, if you notice, the top countries are already considered as advanced countries which means they have reached a stage of matured and sophisticated economy. The key element and also the similar trait they have boils down to their matured and effective education system. As the saying goes , “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”- Malcolm X.
