Ask anyone and they will agree that hardwork is boring, it's no fun. Let us just have a free-period they will say. Ironically, there comes a time when students crave for work and abhor time-pass. And we should make good use of these episodes.
We had series of events in school for a while now. Concerts, Presentations and Sport-days. Day one is fun, as children are happy to be out-of class-rooms and no-studies. These events, which require all classes to come together, invariably take-up a lot of time. Moving four hundred kids to do anything takes time. This creates opportunities for time-pass. You are either part of the drill or you are waiting out-side for your turn to come. That, mostly you are waiting. Soon children look bored and wasted. By the end of the day they look tired and rater disappointed. They sure don't want to go back to the class-rooms. But neither do they want this time-pass. Some of them even feel angry that so much time was whiled away.
Many children come to me and say they would want to go back to the class and study something. They were missing the class-work. This has happened more than once. These are the times when we can show them the difference between hard-work and time-pass.
I have been saying this in my classes, that you feel happy when you do hard-work. And however much you may want to enjoy, if you do time-pass you will feel miserable at the end of the day.
I am glad that some of my classes are realizing this rather counter-intuitive thing. And are being vocal about it. Time-pass makes you unhappy at the end of the day, meaningful and engaging hard-work makes you happy at the end of the day.
We had series of events in school for a while now. Concerts, Presentations and Sport-days. Day one is fun, as children are happy to be out-of class-rooms and no-studies. These events, which require all classes to come together, invariably take-up a lot of time. Moving four hundred kids to do anything takes time. This creates opportunities for time-pass. You are either part of the drill or you are waiting out-side for your turn to come. That, mostly you are waiting. Soon children look bored and wasted. By the end of the day they look tired and rater disappointed. They sure don't want to go back to the class-rooms. But neither do they want this time-pass. Some of them even feel angry that so much time was whiled away.
Many children come to me and say they would want to go back to the class and study something. They were missing the class-work. This has happened more than once. These are the times when we can show them the difference between hard-work and time-pass.
I have been saying this in my classes, that you feel happy when you do hard-work. And however much you may want to enjoy, if you do time-pass you will feel miserable at the end of the day.
I am glad that some of my classes are realizing this rather counter-intuitive thing. And are being vocal about it. Time-pass makes you unhappy at the end of the day, meaningful and engaging hard-work makes you happy at the end of the day.
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