Theatre for education

"Education without pleasure is not education" -- Rabindranath Tagore
By Culture Desk
7 June 2003, 18:00 PM
The text syllabus for children, especially in our country, is often too monotonous to generate any pleasant learning, says Palakar of Class Acts. Recently a new technique of imparting education was intoduced at a local Kinder Garten. Four lessons from the present syllabuses of class III, IV and V were presented through an act.

If a child sees a tree, he obviously becomes curious about which tree it is. For this reason, children's curiosity can be enhanced and turned into positive learning by vision. If a child, instead of visualizing his lessons all by himself using his little tender mind, can watch the whole thing made by considerate grown-ups, he can understand the whole thing a lot better. Since the fundamental element of child education is curiosity, they can learn a lot more by watching as that enhances their curiosity.

Palakar of Class Acts emphasizes "Education by Watching" that enables children to get entertainment and education simultaneously. As a result the word 'boring' can be removed from their sight and they learn their lessons even without knowing that they are 'learning' or 'studying'. This can well serve the essential task of teaching the text syllabus to the young eager learners.