Future World: Nurture Thinkers & Dreamers

    • Pune Times NIE
    • Publish Date: Aug 26 2019 7:47PM
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    • Updated Date: Aug 26 2019 7:53PM
Future World: Nurture Thinkers & Dreamers
Sharmila Basu, Principal, Vidya Pratishthan's Magarpatta City Public School, Pune

A recent newspaper article refers to the launching of the Chandrayaan 2 which brought out man's oldest fantasy of travelling to the Moon and beyond. Jules Verne opened a visionary window in his book of 1865 - 'The Earth and the Moon'. This near impossible, 'too futuristic', 'absolute fantasy' came into existence with launch of Chandrayaan 2.
Our education should make us thinkers and dreamers like this visionary. Education should
embolden us to predict potential milestones of the future. We should empower children to dream.
Dream the impossible and the unthinkable in such a way that we envisage the future harnessing technology in order to improve lives, but not at a human cost. For example, the rapidly evolving strides in robotics are essential, but they should not control us or replace us. Children should be made to recognise their inherent intuitive abilities, which cannot be replicated. Technology should support the human race. It should be used judiciously to enable us to achieve sustainable development in the areas of healthcare, agriculture, and environment. 
The educator's dream is to train young minds to see the vision of tomorrow, as a world of a 'Mind without fear'… as envisioned by poet Rabindranath Tagore. If we are unable to emotionally mature and balance, we will be reduced to mere robots!

Where the mind is without thought and the head is bent low,
Where knowledge is outsourced,
Where the world has been broken up into drones and robots,
Where words come out from Siri or Alexa
Where the clear stream of reason has lost its way into the dreary desert of robotic monotony,
Where the mind is lowered by thee, oh Al, into ever widening slumber and inertia,
Into that hell of mechanic bondage, my father, Never Let My Country Drown!

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