speech on growing indisicipline among children

Case 1: A child was caught cheating during examinations; the teacher punished the child and drove him home. The child's mother, panting and fuming in anger accompanied the child back to school to confront the teacher. She said if the child had been properly taught he would not have cheated.

Case 2: A student committed a very grave offence in school and her form teacher who was very angry when he learnt of it decided to punish her. He picked up a cane to flog her and it mistakenly landed on one of her eyes. The father followed her back to school screaming at the top of his voice demanding to know why the teacher did that. He did not ask what offence his daughter committed.

Should a parent be averse to a teacher disciplining his child? Should a teacher beat or flog a pupil? Should a parent leave the discipline of his/her child entirely to the teacher? These are the questions at the fore now that stakeholders have noticed that indiscipline is becoming epidemic in Nigerian schools.

Some parents, on the one hand, are calling to question the disciplinary power of teachers, while the teachers on the other, are accusing parents of leaving their responsibilities of training the children entirely to them. The result is the high level of indiscipline among students in schools.

Blame the parents

Stella Aimah, a teacher who is also in charge of Guidance and Counseling at a government secondary school in Abuja, said it is improper for parents to come and challenge the authority of a teacher to punish a child without first asking what error the child committed.

Aimah said perhaps because of the poor economic situation in the country, parents hardly spend quality time with their children; they are not there to give them the discipline they need.

"These parents do not know that from time to time they are supposed to check their children to know what is really happening," she said.

She said situations where parents question teachers for disciplining their children, give room for misbehavior on the part of the children.

"These children stay with us for few hours, they stay at home more. The parents are not there and in school when we try to mold them they say we are going far. Some parents would just leave their children. It is in the night they return and when they come they would go and sleep. They do not keep up with their children. If you talk to them and check their books, it would go a long way. Ask the children how their day was in school when you come back from work."

They insult teachers. In examinations, they insist on copying. If any invigilator checks them he is threatened. All this clearly proves that our students are indiscipline.

We cannot blame the students alone for this growing indiscipline. There are many other causes of indiscipline. The most important one is the political cause. Students were encouraged by our leaders to take part in the freedom struggle. They followed all the methods that were useful for this end. Now they use those very methods against their elders, whenever attempts are made at disciplining them. Besides this, the various political parties make use of students for their own ends. For example, students were used as tools in Gujrat, Punjab, Assam and Bihar. Indeed, politics is the most important cause of student indiscipline to-day.

Our-education does not suit many of the students. They do not find of any use. They fail to get suitable jobs after completing their education. This makes them unhappy. So they behave in an indiscipline way. There is no personal touch between teachers and students. Classes are generally over-crowded. So students do not learn many things which they ought to learn from their teachers. Moreover, the educational institutions have become a means of giving employment to the unemployed. Even people who have no taste for teaching take to this profession.

In society, immature youngsters find their elders behaving in an indiscipline way. As they see so they do. Many things which they see in cinemas, they practice in the class room. In fact, social conditions are responsible for student indiscipline all round. They must be taught to shun violence and cultivate the spirit of harmony. They must learn to respect the religious views and principles of each other. This would improve the atmosphere in educational institutions.

Though the problem is a difficult one and indiscipline is fast spreading yet it is not such as cannot be solved. Only we need a will to solve it. Here are some suggestions which, if followed, will go a long way towards solving this problem.

First, politics in every form must be kept out of schools and colleges. Teachers too indulge in politics. They use students against each other. This increases indiscipline. No one should be allowed to take part in politics. Political parties must agree that none of them would use students to achieve their political ends. That politics is the chief cause of student indiscipline, is clearly brought out by the fact that during the period of emergency there was complete peace in educational institutions. Students and teachers must remain busy in their work. Student Unions should not be allowed to take the form of political parties. They must work only as literary organizations.

Only first class persons must be appointed as teachers. It is a happy sign that attention is also being paid to this aspect of indiscipline. Grades and salaries of teachers have been raised, as also their academic qualifications. Over-crowding in classes must be avoided. Varied courses should be prescribed, so that students may choose only the subjects which really interest them. All this will help in solving the problem.

Students should be kept away from the dirty life of cities. Schools and colleges should be located away from the busy cities. We should try to follow the example of the Gurukuls and Rishikuls of ancient India. There in lies salvation.

If we want to solve this problem, all of us must co-operate. Government alone cannot solve it. It must be tackled at the earliest. Growing indiscipline is poisonous for the nation. It is the interest of everyone to help in solving this problem.

The indiscipline among the students is on the increase. This is a fact borne out by daily happenings in schools and colleges. The newspapers are full of reports of unrest and indiscipline among students. It has become one of the serious problems being faced by the country. Students go on strikes, they resort to copying and cheating in the examination, insult their teachers and principals. They tear away pages from the library books or pictures from the magazines, write dirty things on walls etc. and indulge in many other kinds of mischief. They clash with the police, throw stones and brickbats at them and practice violence at any pretext.

This widespread unrest and indiscipline among the students reflect the prevailing indiscipline, lawlessness and frustration in the society. The students alone are not to be blamed. There is too much political interference in schools and educational institutions. The students are misled and misused by various political parties to serve their selfish ends. The postings, appointments, transfers etc. in schools, colleges and universities are made not on merits but other considerations. Corruption and favouritism are rampant in these temples of learning.

The teachers themselves are corrupt. They are greedy and run after illegal means of making quick money. They do not inspire confidence, hope and honesty among students. They indulge in dirty politics and can stoop to any depth to have money. Therefore, there is a crisis of character. Students have no role models to follow. Students find themselves groping in the dark. The cable and TV boom and influence of western ideas and culture have further worsened the situation. The rapid disintegration of families has also contributed to the increasing indiscipline among students. There is neither character, nor values, nor morals in the society. Students imitate their parents, teachers, leaders and elders and behave accordingly.

The education imparted in schools and colleges is totally irrelevant. It is not job-oriented. Students fail to get suitable and early employment after finishing their education and training. There is favouritism and nepotism in employment. One has to pay huge amount of money as bride to secure even a modest job. Students with resources and recommendations get all the good jobs. Reservation of jobs for certain categories of students has further worsened the situation. The merit has been marginalised.

Therefore, students feel cheated, frustrated and disillusioned. When without any hope or employment, they become quite restless and indulge in all sorts of indiscipline. There is no proper guidance, advice etc., in regard to the selection of courses of studies and careers. As a result of all this, much of their energy, time and resources to waste and they become victims of indecision. This leads to more and aimlessness.

The classes are over-crowded. There is no personal contact between teachers and students. There is too much pressure on students as they are always expected to score excellent grades. The system of examination is also very defective. It encourages copying, rot learning and reliance on cheap market notes. A month or so before the examination, the students engage themselves in studies. For the rest of the year they are idle. There are no extra-curricular activities worth their names. Their energies are not properly utilized, and therefore they find expression in violence, unrest and indiscipline. It has been rightly observed that an-empty mind is a devil's workshop. An ideal hand is still worse.

The problem is grave but is not impossible to check it. It is the duty of the leaders, educationists and teachers to address the problem immediately. There should be no political interference in the running of schools etc. the entire education system should be over-hauled and made job-oriented. It should be linked with industry. The teachers should be given better salaries and allowances. They should be made accountable and responsible for the results and conduct of the students under them. There should be no school without proper facilities for games and sports. More emphasis should be laid on character-building, moral education and extra-curricular activities. Growing indiscipline and unrest among students is a great danger to our society and must be checked with the cooperation of all. The union elections in schools and colleges should not be allowed to be fought on political lines. They must function only as educational associations. The classes and their sections should not be crowded. Only the teachers with merits and good characters to be appointed in the schools. Privatisation of schools should also be encouraged. More money should be spent on education, particularly on primary education. There should be liberal and more scholarships for needy and meritorious students.

Various points which you could incorporate in this essay are:

• Discipline and a certain code of conduct is the key to success.

• Following a set pattern of rules does not mean strangling the neck of talent and ambition. It is a path which helps us to decide how much to change, how to change and why to bring forth a particular change.

• Self discipline is a rare quality which one has to inculcate, nurture and cherish from early childhood. This would help a child to stay cooperative and jovial even in their school.

• Discipline in student life include virtues like punctuality, honesty and cleanliness. Therefore, here a person becomes a ruler of his own.

• Discipline leads to achieving better results, outshining in class and more importantly achieving your goals, in fact helping you achieve more than you had imagined or aimed for.

• Discipline helps to distinguish between the good and the bad in the school, the surroundings, the family, overall on the society.

• Sir Smith has rightly said "Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. So one must observe disciple to make their school and world a better place to live.

Theproblem of indiscipline among students has become a common feature of our social and educational life. There are strikes and agitations all over the country. Reports of indiscipline, strikes and unhappy incidents often come from colleges and universities. In fact, the growing problem of indiscipline is a cancer in the body of education. If world is a building, its foundation is discipline. Life without it is like a ship without rudder.

Thechief cause of indiscipline among students is our defective system of education. The students do not find suitable employments after completing their education. Thousands of graduates are coming out of college and universities every year. They find all the doors of employment locked. This position makes them unhappy. Secondary our schools and colleges are overcrowded. Hence there is no personal touch between the teacher and the taught.

Insociety, young boys and girls see their elders behaving in an in-disciplined way. They see many things in cinema and practice it in class rooms. They see many in-disciplined things going on in the society. They practice what they see around them. Thus social conditions are also responsible for this growing in-disciplined among the students. The dominant cause of students in-disciplined is politics. The student leaders are attached with different political parties. The leaders of political parties exploit the students for their selfish ends.

Itcannot be denied that there is lack of living role models. Everywhere students find uncertainty and confusion because their goals are not clear to them. Commercialization of education is also one of the main factors of unrest among students. In the field of education there is corruption from top to bottom. The whole machinery thinks more of its own benefits. People concerned are least bothered about the future of the young generation.

Anotherreason is toady students too believe in short cut methods. They are interested in short term but immediate gain by fair or foul means. For ultimate success they should remember that means must be as pure as the end itself. The cinema is also one of the causes of in-discipline among the students. From cinema they learn many evils. They follow film actors and actresses in their dress, habits, romance and scuffles.

Itis suggested that our colleges and universities should give proper training in discipline. Discipline is taught in schools are colleges. The system of education should be reformed. Students should remain busy every time. Parents, teachers and politicians should present good examples of discipline before the students. Moral education should be given to them. The students should be kept away from politics. Proper arrangement should be made in colleges for co-curricular activities in order to keep the students busy. Suitable jobs must be provided for the educated young men. Reservations must vanish. Able persons should be appointed as teacher.

Theproblem of in-disciplined among the students is a very complex problem. It needs immediate attention. Government alone cannot solve it. All of us must co-operate.

These days schools and colleges have now become hot beds of indiscipline.The modern students do not at all do for their studies.They are never serious in the classroom.They come to class without text books,dont let the other students study.They make fun of teachers,tease them and moreover they have no respect for the teachers.

Indiscipline among students has become so rampart that people freely criticize them. Teachers accuse them for want of respect. Parents are dissatisfied with them because they do not get good marks -in the examination and waste time in this and that. And if we talk about the students we see that they are angry with the authorities, they are displeased with their teachers, their parents.

Every day we read in newspaper about strikes, incidents of free fighting in educational institutions. Sometimes, these incidents take so^uly turn that they come under control by police only. At times it also happens that students are put behind bars due to their aggressive activities.

What are the causes of this indiscipline? Students are the builders of nation. They are the symbol of creativity. When they indulge in destructive acts what will be the future of our country? Hence, we must sort out the reasons so that they may uproot in order to give a secured present and future to our students.

The greatest cause of the indiscipline among students is our defective educational system, where too much stress is given oni on the completion of the text-books within alloted time. As teachers are under pressure of completion of the text-books they just stop to give moral education to their students. As a result, character formation becomes secondary.

In absence of value based education, the future of young generation seems to be gloomy. It has been seen that when the youth finish their studies, they are half-educated and ill- paced. This situation promotes unemployment among them. Unemployment promotes depression many of our students are victims of this evil. If we want to uproot indiscipline among our youth class, basic change in the present education system is very important.

Nowadays, we see that our youth are getting addicted to television, a main source of spreading indiscipline among students. Violence on television affects children negatively. They become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others. Not only this, they are encouraged to behave in aggressive ways towards others-whether they are their parents or teachers or relatives. Then comes film today's films dwell more on violence and other crimes which divert young minds.

Most of the parents today are working and have no time to discuss vital issues with their sons and daughters. They try to compensate for time with money. But money can not help instil good values. The fear barrier no longer exists in our society and parents easily give way to children's repeated demands without realising the consequences. This is a dangerous sign of decadence and anti-social ills.

In connection with solution of this problem there are several things which can be taken into action. First of all education system should be reformed. We must check over­crowding in classes so that a close rapport is established between the teachers and the students. Students must be taught the lessons of discipline and obedience from the very beginning along with the text books.

The teachers should also learn to behave well with the students. They should always try to give their best to the students and treat them like their own sons and daughters. To avoid indiscipline among students, it is the duty of parents, teachers and authorities to sit together and take some useful and appropriate actions in order to save them from getting spoiled.

It is very easy.for students to go astray if not guided by their parents and cools. Hence, they must be saved at any cost, for they are the ultimate hope of the nation.