Pre-schooling crucial for nurturing young minds: Rana

Jammu, Feb 22: Describing pre-schooling as crucial for nurturing young minds, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devender Singh Rana on Thursday said sensitivity, skill and patience are prerequisites for teachers to meet the challenge of shaping the destiny of children.
Inaugurating a play-way school started by young entrepreneurs Shivani Sharma and Vishal Sharma at Nagrota, Rana said care and compassion towards children is a guiding philosophy for institutions taking up preschool activity.
He said the concept of pre-schooling has gained momentum across the country in recent years and exposure to babies on a wider canvas at the very onset of their life places them in good stead in the initial years of schooling. Apart from confidence, they tend to be sociable from the very beginning, he said and appreciated the efforts of the private sector in meeting this challenging responsibility.
The BJP leader congratulated the management for the initiative and reminded them of the great responsibility they are undertaking in grooming young babies. The idea of catching young minds, as early as the first one and half years, is not an easy task, as it requires a lot of patience and spirit of sacrifice, he felt.
Devender dwelt on baby instincts in detail and said the process of learning starts as soon as a child takes birth. “This is a universal truth that the mother is the first and the best teacher of a child,” he said, adding that the pre-schooling mechanism is like sharing the responsibility of mothers. He cautioned against exposing children to negativity and called for close synergy between teachers and parents to ensure that they tread their journey on the right path.
“The play-well schools have attained added significance with working mothers having time constraints in shouldering their responsibilities,” Rana said and exhorted the trainers to put in their best in filling the vacuum and supplementing efforts of healthy grooming of babies.
“Moulding young minds towards positive pursuits is the most challenging task and much of the onus lies on teachers, who have to work with a missionary spirit to shape their destiny,” he added.
Speaking on the occasion, BJP leader Peer Mushtaq Ahmed Bukhari hoped that the management will ensure conducive atmosphere, hygiene, safety and security and the prescribed norms set by the competent authority for running such schools. Rana congratulated Vishal Sharma and Shivani Sharma, the Director and Principal of the School.