Dr. A.K. Singh

CHAIRMAN

JD Group of Educational Institutions

The larger context of education is to prepare futuristic citizens for a meaningful and productive life in a globalized society. It is expected to prepare the students for life by making students physically fit, mentally alert and emotionally balanced. Education is not a physical thing that can be delivered through the post or through a teacher. Fertile and robust education is always created, rooted in the physical and cultural soil of the child, and nourished through interaction with parents, teachers, fellow students and the community. As India makes rapid strides into the 21st Centaury in almost every aspect, we are today on the fascinating threshold for the right balance for coexistence between the past and present, the old and the new, the heritage and the modernity, the spiritual and the material, the global and the local, the universal and the individual. Furthermore, a vibrant future is constantly evolving- a future of collaborative as well as individualistic learning and existence; a future which will need imagination, creativity, multiple skills international-mindedness, quick-wittedness and an inherent power of anticipation for success.

Such is the world the young learners are emerging into today. Hence, the mereasing gap between the perceived learning and actual learning needs to be addressed. More life-like experiential components would have to find their way frequently into a good curriculum for a dynamic, effective and optimum learning experience. Therefore the schooling experience needs to be revisited. What we need tomorrow has to be provided for today by restructuring school programs and strategizing new processes that enrich learning. Curiosity bubbles inside the minds of children from the moment they wake in the morning to when they go to bed at night. Our challenge is to encourage, connect, and foster learning throughout a child’s day. A lifelong habit of seeking knowledge involves the shaping of attitudes and cultivation of sensitivities, so that an individual is at once a part of society and apart in the way he thinks, feels, works and heaves.