Taare Zamin Par- Bringing out the genius in every child
A master piece by Aamir khan lots of lesson to be learnt from the movie Taare zamin Par focussing on child learning and enabling a child to come out with the hidden tallent inside him. The story revolves around a boy called Ishan Awasthi who is dyslexic and suffers from a learning disorder. The boy's inability to understand the concepts makes him think that he is a loser and potentially leads to the loss of his inherent talent of art in which he is good at. Until one day an art teacher who comes as a saviour and helps the child to revive his lost tallent and enables him to learn better. there is a hard hitting message that the movie comes out with for each and every element affecting the learning ability of a child.
Rote learning is not everything
Parents, community, teachers should understand that rote learning is not the solution to student learning and it may out of the capability and capacity of every child to by heart multiplication tables, memorise the asinine grammatical definitions or explain and interpret complex poems in any language. For the child those mathematical tables are a complex set of symbols forcing him to pressurise his cerebrum to come to think of a solution by recall rather than understanding the underlying concept behind the multiplication. Unfortunately the this leukemia called rote learning has penetrated so deeply in the system that it has blind folded the teachers, parents and community to such an extent that, "learning by understanding" seems to be existing no where in the picture.
Teacher is the biggest benefactor
A recent Mckinsey report states that the quality of the teachers cannot exceed the quality of teaching in the system. Very true Taare Zamin Par concretizes the fact that a teacher can turn around the tables and has the ability to bring out the potential in each and every child. The teacher "Aamir Khan" here recognises that the child Ishan suffers from a syndrome called dyslexia wherein the child's recall ability is quite poor and due to this he is being suppressed by everyone ranging from teachers, friends and parents. The child eventually goes in a state of depression and seemingly tends to loose his passion for art which is his core area of interest. The teacher comes in as a saviour and enables the child to purse his real core talent.
Diagnose the problem by understanding the symptoms
None of the elements were able to understand what is the problem exactly with the child, except the teacher. One has to diagnose the problem by reading the symptoms. The teacher in the story identifies the patterns in the student works. The child for instance could not make out between similar alphabets like’d’ & 'b', simultaneously was not able to distinguish between identical spellings like 'cat' and 'cot', even in numerical he wrote the characters exactly the opposite way that they were supposed to be written and thereby he comes to a conclusion that the child needs special care improve upon his learning skills.
Damn with rat race
Finally the movie is an eye-opener for all of those students, teachers and parents who believe that "rat race is everything" blindly running to get the top slot without understanding that the inner talent is the most important asset that a person possesses and should focus on developing the inner traits and skills. Eventually its the system that encourages this rat race syndrome its a vicious cycle - pushing students to excel in academics, academics again directly linked to employment & career and killing the inherent creativity of the child. The movie's theme every child is unique supporting Howard Garndners Theory of mulitple intelligences.
A master piece by Aamir khan lots of lesson to be learnt from the movie Taare zamin Par focussing on child learning and enabling a child to come out with the hidden tallent inside him. The story revolves around a boy called Ishan Awasthi who is dyslexic and suffers from a learning disorder. The boy's inability to understand the concepts makes him think that he is a loser and potentially leads to the loss of his inherent talent of art in which he is good at. Until one day an art teacher who comes as a saviour and helps the child to revive his lost tallent and enables him to learn better. there is a hard hitting message that the movie comes out with for each and every element affecting the learning ability of a child.
Rote learning is not everything
Parents, community, teachers should understand that rote learning is not the solution to student learning and it may out of the capability and capacity of every child to by heart multiplication tables, memorise the asinine grammatical definitions or explain and interpret complex poems in any language. For the child those mathematical tables are a complex set of symbols forcing him to pressurise his cerebrum to come to think of a solution by recall rather than understanding the underlying concept behind the multiplication. Unfortunately the this leukemia called rote learning has penetrated so deeply in the system that it has blind folded the teachers, parents and community to such an extent that, "learning by understanding" seems to be existing no where in the picture.
Teacher is the biggest benefactor
A recent Mckinsey report states that the quality of the teachers cannot exceed the quality of teaching in the system. Very true Taare Zamin Par concretizes the fact that a teacher can turn around the tables and has the ability to bring out the potential in each and every child. The teacher "Aamir Khan" here recognises that the child Ishan suffers from a syndrome called dyslexia wherein the child's recall ability is quite poor and due to this he is being suppressed by everyone ranging from teachers, friends and parents. The child eventually goes in a state of depression and seemingly tends to loose his passion for art which is his core area of interest. The teacher comes in as a saviour and enables the child to purse his real core talent.
Diagnose the problem by understanding the symptoms
None of the elements were able to understand what is the problem exactly with the child, except the teacher. One has to diagnose the problem by reading the symptoms. The teacher in the story identifies the patterns in the student works. The child for instance could not make out between similar alphabets like’d’ & 'b', simultaneously was not able to distinguish between identical spellings like 'cat' and 'cot', even in numerical he wrote the characters exactly the opposite way that they were supposed to be written and thereby he comes to a conclusion that the child needs special care improve upon his learning skills.
Damn with rat race
Finally the movie is an eye-opener for all of those students, teachers and parents who believe that "rat race is everything" blindly running to get the top slot without understanding that the inner talent is the most important asset that a person possesses and should focus on developing the inner traits and skills. Eventually its the system that encourages this rat race syndrome its a vicious cycle - pushing students to excel in academics, academics again directly linked to employment & career and killing the inherent creativity of the child. The movie's theme every child is unique supporting Howard Garndners Theory of mulitple intelligences.
A must see for every die hard Educationist
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