Tuesday 5 April 2016

Learning by Doing


              A phrase taking both the educational and professional fields by storm, a phrase integral to the 21st century Maker Culture, and a phrase that can open the floodgates of creativity, innovation and enjoyment in every child, Learning by Doing brings to life the one sentence we have been hearing since time immemorial – Every Child is Special.
Yet the system has transformed these last few decades. Books, which are the compass of our education system; instead of invigorating a child’s mind, have in turn begun to confine it. Abiding by a rote-learning system that expects more memory retention than actual knowledge, students have lost their hold over the one feature that had once brightened their adolescent lives: an imagination. This, in turn, has had a detrimental effect on children’s minds. By developing a spoon-fed backbone of education, children are now caught in the rut of a vicious cycle that deprives them of ideas, self-reliance, out-of-the-box thinking, independence, focus, and most importantly, an enjoyable and inquiry-based education. 
The effect of such a colorless life is, contrary to popular belief, instantaneous as well as adverse. Genuine intellectual potential of students by the millions, is curbed, and they are dependent on a predefined yardstick that has already developed generations of students with the exact same knowledge. We are thus, in turn, developing armies of mechanical minds that do not know better, and have not unveiled their infinite potential. 
Fortunately, this large bottleneck has been diagnosed – and we are now on the right track. By introducing children to the alternative and much larger scope of hands-on learning and learning by doing we can encourage children to develop an inherently inquisitive nature, a nature that builds knowledge and education on self-reliant questioning, practical learning and firsthand experience. This will in turn encourage every student to recognize their specialness, their true potential, and enjoy the gifts of knowledge, education, creativity and imagination to their heart’s content!
Having recognized the infinite caliber of every student and choosing to nurse it to its utmost possibility is Butterfly Edufields, an aid to imagination, 21st century education, and skills that are essential to every student that deserves to stand a chance in today’s cut-throat competing world. Students learning by doing numerous experiments, syllabus-relevant activities and projects that will rejuvenate the creator and maker in your child, we promise to help your child rekindle their potential and recognize just how truly special each and every one of them is.