subject: Stress Of Child Labor [print this page] Any sensitive and sensible individual would not like a child to undergo the coercion of daily labor for survival.
Apparently; this conscientious feeling has been transformed into international consensus against child labor.
Sadly though, it is being defeated repeatedly, thereby producing enormous STRESS; amongst the children forced into labor; as well as most of us who are witnesses! This STRESS is often not perceived and not identified clearly and sensed only as a vague and inexplicable agitation and sickening agony in the heart!
The failure of the international consensus and conscience; is due to the naive or deliberate lack of dealing with the root of child labor; and merely continuing with the philanthropic activities; and/or attempts towards arbitrary imposition of laws to ban child labor.
The root cause of child labor and consequent stress is the educational policy that is bereft of productive domain. The students of science and arts (and professional colleges) in the mainstream education (probably in most countries in the world); are cut off from skills and ethics involved in production and marketing and sales in real life in the world!
This education is unnecessarily and highly dependent on high tech gadgets and books, calculators, computers and other teaching and learning aids and revolves around the elitist life (demands); neglecting the life (needs) of vast majority, naively or deliberately. This education policy is probably revolving around the vested interests of the manufacturers and dealers of the so called educational (earning and teaching) aids and material. In short it revolves around the needs and interests of few and being parasitic in nature; at the cost of vast majority.
In such highly alienated and expensive unproductive education system; majority of the children become suffocated child drop outs and the vulnerable and easily available helpless child labor. Those, who continue in the education and get graduated; are unable to get self-employed and either become frustrated and suicidal mental wrecks; or frustrated but arrogant criminals.
Child labor and the subsequent STRESS; can be conquered; if the education nurtures on priority basis; the spiritual domain (self empowerment through self knowledge, self realization (through NAMASMARAN) and productive domain; besides cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains.
This can be done if we internalize introduce this is YOGA i.e. i.e. reunification of; reintegration of, or re-amalgamation of; or re-synthesis of spiritualism and materialism; and individually and globally benevolent perspectives, policies, plans and programs; in education!
by: DR.KASHALIKAR
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