Recently I watched a program "Ippadiku Rose" which was telecasted in Vijay TV (Tamil). It is a talk show and on that particular episode they discussed about the dress code for various occasions including colleges. The show started with a incident that happened in Tamilnadu recently. A writer was invited for a college function where she went dressed in Jean and kurta tops. The management stopped her from getting in and gave her a black dupatta and asked her to wear it in order to get in. She refused it and returned. What a stupid act....
When asked about the dress codes in colleges, a principal of a college in chennai said that "Dress code is must in a co-education college, because this is the stage where the students get attracted easily by opposite sex and fall in love." But does dress code stop students from these infatuations. She says it does decreases.
She also added that the parents now a days are not strict about the way their children dress up and so it becomes the duty of the college management to maintain these codes inside the college. But is it okay if the students dress up badly outside the college premises?
She also said that "Now a days students from villages also come to colleges in Cities to learn. They never have seen girls dress so modernly in their towns. So they get affected by it. " That is when a question strikes me. Have we forgotten the real purpose of schools and colleges?
There is saying in Tamil. "Matha Pitha Guru Deivam". Meaning "Mother Father Teacher then God". Have the teachers and the institutions today forgotten their real role they play in the students life?
A student learns life at school and colleges. I feel Dress Code is just a lame excuse a teacher and a institution gives to escape from their even larger duty of moulding the students life. There should be no dress code to tell the student, be girl or boy, how to dress. A real institution or a teacher must make the student understand how to dress to represent himself/herself in this society. Is it impossible to do so.
I personally think this all happened because of the attitude of the parents. The dreams of making their child to be a doctor, engineer,etc. How many parents will want their child to a good human being in the first hand. So the institutions are focusing on the needs of the parents. In that process they forget about the role they should be playing in the students life.
India definitely needs an education revolution to get out of this problems. What say.......
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment