It was nice to see children behaving respectfully towards others

Today, a 7th class student invited us to visit his school to see an exhibition. We teach him at our institute, so we accepted his invitation. We wanted to see his happiness on seeing us. Three people from our institute and one student of ours left for his school in the afternoon on two bikes. We reached that school in around twenty minutes. We entered that school and found that the school has an interesting aspect to it. It is a four storied building nearly at the centre of a small hill. The road winds and takes us to the top of the building and the entrance is at the top floor. We looked around and kids were  standing at different places- some gatherered in groups and some loitering alone. Some students were in uniform-cream shirt and brown pants and skirts. The kids were looking lovely, adorable and cute. Some students were wearing beautiful colour dresses. Teachers could be seen in bright sarees, some looking worried, some in a hurry, some bored and some enjoying the occasion. We somehow found the place where our student had invited us, but to our disappointment he was not at his place. A small, lovely child standing at his place told us that he had left the place sometime ago. We looked around, but could not find him. At that time, a suggestion came up that we should all split up and each one should search in a different direction. We did that and finally we found him at the ground floor. He was perspiring profusely. We talked to him and he was about to introduce us to his friends when we told him to meet the other people who came with us. Then, we went upstairs. We were all tired by now. Later, we said good bye to him and returned.

We found the students in the school to be very respectful and friendly. We were talking about this when somebody told us that once a father took admission for his son in this school. The son was very naughty and disobedient. In some days after joining the school, the behaviour of the boy started to change, and one day, the boy touched the feet of his father and mother reverently. This brought tears into the eyes of his parents. The father was very happy. He tells others that even if his son does not study well that is alright with him, as long as he is obedient and respectful towards others.

There are millions of children who behave very nicely with everyone, yet their parents do not value this. Parents give more importance to the marks they score and the money that they are able to make. How sweet it would be if all the parents appreciated and celebrated good behaviour of their children rather than haunting their children for useless degrees. What will the parents gain if they raise a bad human being who is intelligent and rich? Better to be poor and humane than to be rich and inhumane.

I like this school because it is teaching good values and traditions to the children, but I don't approve of the way they worship a god women. May be every good thing comes with something bad.