Academic underachievers and unemployed people are just two of many other kinds of people who are often treated as outcasts. From kids to elders, everyone fails at many things in life and more often than not they’re ill-treated and mostly by the part of the society that’s supposed to be above such behaviour. First rank students look down on students who fail or barely pass, rich snobs look down on people, the ones who make their lives easier by working hard and doing physical labour with disgust, employed people look down on the unemployed as failures.
The fact that kids who fail to graduate and people who fail to get employment and people who fail to rise up to have a secure life where they don’t have to work 2-3 shifts a day even when they’re 50-60 are called failures doesn’t make sense and further calling them lazy and dumb should be a crime.
Many people talk about how babies don’t stop when they fall, they fall thousands of times before they learn how to walk, kids don’t do things they aren’t supposed to, get hurt and learn, sometimes they ask for guidance and help and sometimes they learn on their own. What almost nobody talks about is how everyone gives as many chances as necessary for them to learn. Somewhere down the road people just decided that kids grow up and grown-ups don’t make mistakes and then the world went to hell.
Here’s the thing, people don’t fail, because babies and kids don’t fail, it’s just not in our nature to fail. In fact, it is the society that has failed, it is the system that has failed its people. In the past, our system of conformity worked, it was a new system, but today, the world has changed, there are more people which means there are more people that are left behind. As we strive to change and improve our way of life, we need to strive to develop a new system where not just babies but adults too are given enough chances to better themselves.
Sure high school and college students get to choose whether or not to attend classes each day and some choose to attend mostly out of fear of failing and some take a chance and choose to not attend classes. But why is it that those are their only options? Shouldn’t students get a chance to choose their method of learning? Shouldn’t they be able to figure out which system of learning works best for them? If we’re not willing to give them more chances to succeed, we should at the very least give them options to choose from.
We need the next generation to grow up with an understanding of how important mental health is, we need them to grow up with better emotional health and not just information that might be useful. I wonder if the world will realize that along with knowledge about math, science, culture and tradition, empathy and morals also need to be taught and not just along the sidelines. I wonder if people will realize we have been ignorant of the needs of those left behind for long enough.
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