Gyanoday

Gyanoday 2014 was organized by Edlive Intellectuals Forum on 14th November, 2014 on occasion of ‘Children’s Day’ – birth anniversary of our first prime minister, Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru. The event was organized and sponsored by Edlive Education Pvt. Ltd. and Edlive Technologies to discuss the current education system and impact of education on school children. Participants shared their views about school education and solutions to improve children’s intellectual power to cope with education stress and other problems. The high tea event was held at Hotel Western Court, Chandigarh.Gyanoday 2014 was graced by participation of honorable Deputy Commissioner of Mohali, S. TPS Sidhu as chief guest of the event. Several educationists, reputed personalities and professionals attended the event. Mr. P S Kang, Director – Edlive Group and S. Avtar Singh Samadh Bhai Ji – noted social worker and sports promoter honored the chief guest and event was inaugurated with lighting of diya. (Lamp lighting)Several speakers expressed their views about education system and impact of current education system on children and parent’s and educationist’s responsibilities towards children’s various skills development.
Here are some highlights of the views and opinions of the speakers at the event –

Honorable TPS Sidhu – Deputy Commissioner, Mohali.

Mr. Sidhu, who honored the event with his participation despite very busy schedule, concluded the all views presented by previous speakers. He appreciated the efforts of Edlive Group for organizing such event and he promised to support such initiatives for welfare of the children.

Mr. P S Kang – Director, Edlive Group.
Mr. Kang shared his views about some general problem faced by children from the beginning of their education such as exam stress, imbalance between parent’s expectation, consistent low grading, disrespect to teachers, parents and family members. He further emphasized the need of strengthening the education system by making efforts from all members of the society including parents, teachers, Government and NGOs and children as well.

Ms. Kajal Dhingra – Gurukul World, Mohali.
Ms. Dhingra raised her concerns about deterioration of moral and social values in children. This has become very common to be rude, stubborn and disrespectful to teachers in most of the children. She emphasized the need of moral education, moral values and life skills classes for school children. Not only school teachers but parents and family members of the children should equally impart moral values in children. Teachers are often criticized for their teaching style and strictness but if we see flip side of the coin, lapses are from parent’s side as well. So parents are required to see the daily dairy of the children and put their remarks.

Ms. Navpreet Kaur – Golden Bells School, Mohali.
Ms. Navpreet Kaur shared her views about impact of advancement of technology on children. Computer devices, smart phones and internet have become 24/7 library for children. Instead of using their brain, children have straight answer from one source – Google. It’s becoming a big reason behind the loss of personal touch between children and their family and peer group. Children spend more time at homes and parents need to be resourceful to the children and should give time to solve their problems. Children will find it more interesting and will like to talk to parents instead of getting revolved around internet. She also emphasized the need of vocational education from 8th to 12th standards.

S. Avtar Singh Samadh Bhai Ji.
A noted social worker and sports promoter, Samadh Bhai Ji shared his personal life experience and stressed on need of education and skills to become successful in life. It’s education and skills which will take us on heights and without education people’s life is directionless. He further delivered a valuable advice to parents – Do not spend money on your children, what all you have to spend is time. His views were well applauded by the participants.

S. Santokh Singh Mandher, an international photo journalist who has covered various national and international events like Kabaddi World Cup and Olympics games, graced the event as guest of honour.

Gyanoday 2014 was a great success and all participants pledged to contribute with their efforts to improve the education system and giving stress free and moral education to children. Edlive Group will be continuing with such events in future to reach it’s final mission. We thank all participants who presented their views and all these views will be echoing for a long time.