What Should Parents Expect From The Indian Education System?

With new professions coming up every day, the one question on every parent's mind is- how well am I preparing my child for the future? With a recent WEF report predicting that a set of top jobs that will be in vogue in 2030, we need to ask ourselves if our kids have the right skills to face it. Are they future ready? Or are they still stuck in the old-fashioned education system? 

We spoke to Mr. Kunal Dalal, Managing Director-JBCN Education on what parents today need to know about the current changes in the evolving education system and if their expectations are met. He gave us a very interesting perspective on the essential skills our kids will need, how the concept of failure has been wrongly passed on for years and why sports matters! 

In today's times, educators have often emphasized on why working on your child's soft skills is imperative in making them future-ready. Empathy, compassion and essentials like leadership and team-work go a long way and need to be started upon from a very young age, says Mr. Kunal Dalal. 

Mr Kunal Dalal on the right values we need to teach our kids- 1. Skill development 2. Leadership 3. Communication skills 4. Developing Compassion & Empathy #parenting #JBCNSchool

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Another interesting aspect Mr. Kunal touched upon in this LIVE was about the concept of exams and why that is seeing a radical shift, in today's schools like JBCN thankfully. A year's learning shouldn't be only restricted to the performance of the child in 3 hours, instead the focus should be on the process of learning, he says and it makes a lot of sense. Exams are just one of the tools for assessment which equips the child with the skill to recall relevant information in a limited frame. The concept of failure has been something that's misconstrued and wrongly translated over the years. Amidst parents who fret over their kids losing competitions at the age of 5 and 6, we need to look at the bigger picture and find out what each failure teaches our kids. (Don't forget to read Sourav Ganguly's take on how failures made him a better sportsperson). Mr. Kunal explained, how sports can teach the children to handle failure at an young age and pick themselves up for the next challenge

We totally agree with Mr. Kunal Dalal where he explains how a few marks more than your competitor in an exam is not exactly a 'victory' and why that doesn't make your child a 'failure'. Are we listening, parents? #JBCNSchool #LIVE #Education

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Another common mistake that all of us are guilty of, is to impose our dreams on to our offsprings and expect them to shine the way we want them to. Isn't that something unfair? At Kidsstoppress, we firmly believe that parents need to act as catalysts for our kids to help them pursue their dreams and not chart it out completely for them. Mr. Kunal was of the same opinion and explained why we need to expose them to a variety of things at an early age to help them discover what they are good at and identify their passion.

"Stop imposing your expectations on your kids and allow them to find their own passion with a broad spectrum of activities", says Kunal Dalal when quizzed about the right way to find out your child's passion. #JBCNSchool @mansizaveri #WednesdayWisdom #parenting

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The discussion steered towards the importance of sports and we concur with
Mr. Kunal's views on the same. The first step to #CreatingWorldChampions is to ensure we expose them to a range of sports early on and ensure they learn a skill or two. Winning doesn't matter- but exposing kids to sports is very crucial for their all-round development. Don't you agree?

The one thing everybody in the #education spectrum will insist upon- the importance of introducing kids to the world of #sports and how that actually helps in #CreatingWorldChampions– in conversation with Mr. Kunal Dalal of #JBCNSchool

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When Mansi Zaveri asked him about how learning can be made accessible to all, Mr. Kunal Dalal explained how the government along with the educational institutions can jointly contribute to teacher training programmes, curriculum development and tech-integrated education. By taking a leap forward together, great learning for all can be made a reality in the future.

This post is written in association with JBCN International.