ROLE OF SCHOOL IN SHAPING A CHILD
The schools play a vital role in shaping the personality of the students. A child starts learning from the cradle and the process of learning is a life long process. The impact of the parents and family members plays a very important role in the life of a child. The first learning begins from the home. The next learning takes place through the neighbor-hood and friend circle. The impact of School is very important in the development and grooming the personality of a child.

A young child is pure and clean hearted with all potentials. The environment and association of various people with whom the child interacts determines the blue print of one’s personality. The process of learning helps the child to develop and interacts with his classmates. ‘A child is pure and clean-hearted’ means he does not has any complexes in his mind. The growth of a child gets affected if the synchronization of one or more factors as depicted in the adjoining figure is disturbed.

A child by nature having the quality of imitation adopts the habits of his parents other family members. It is seen that a child chooses a role model from the family members for him and usually adopts some or all habits of him/her. The role of parents is to keep a proper care about the habits of their children and nurture him with the truthful virtues in him. A child should always be encouraged for the truthful virtues that are observed in him. Sometime a child may adopt wrong habits which he adopts from the elders or through his role models, should be very carefully be rooted out for which he should be very well acquainted about the demerits of such bad habits. The parents should take rigid and strong actions against the evil habits of the child. It is rightly quoted in the bible ‘Discipline your child in early years when there is hope otherwise you will ruin his future’.

The impact of the school plays a significant role in the life of a child as the blue print of a child’s carrier is decided in the school. The impact of the teachers plays a real important part in the mind of a child. A good and experienced teacher may create a significant balance in the life of a child with his techniques and psychological methods. The good qualities are always nurtured in a child in school.
A friend circle also helps a lot in the positive development of a child. According to the proverb “A man is known by the company that he keeps” The friendship circle also determines the social status of a child it is therefore a child should always be made about seeking a good company of friends. A wrong company of friends can spoil the carrier. Parents, teachers should always restrict the child to guide a child to seek a right friendship circle.

The next most affecting factor into the life of a child is its classmates. It is a human nature that a child wants to make friendship with those who have the same temperament or tastes and likings. A child should be made aware about choosing a friends company. He should always make a company of such friends who are better than him so that he may always learn something from him. Usually it is seen that children make friendship with the children who are worst than them. At such cases a child’s growth gets stagnated and learning abilities gets shriveled.

Environment of the school plays the greatest impact on the child’s behaviour and mind. The policies and strategy of the school always strives to inculcate ethics and moral aptitude, spiritual values, etiquettes and good manners. In order to facilitate the student to acquire such qualities school lays emphasis on various extramural activities in the curricular activities. To develop healthy competitive skills various competitions are organized in schools. The role of teachers and parent is to encourage the child for each activity that is organized in the schools. The school always wants to make the children disciplined, honest, sincere, and punctual, hardworking, self-dependent and devoted children so as to be a useful citizen of the society.

Conclusion :
Every child has a lot of potentials granted by God. It is a teacher who can shape and nurture the latent potentials, which are hidden in him and the progressive environment, leads a child to nourish his abilities and potentials into the desired level under the supervision of his teachers and parents. The very important role of the parents is to encourage the children suitably for their achievements. The encouragement always leads to grow a child into the positive direction whereas criticism always looses the spirit of growth in a child. Every successful person has accepted that for achieving success in the carrier the main role of the parent is always prime who always encouraged him or her.

Deepak Paul
(Principal)
Sacred Heart Sr. Sec. School
HALDWANI (Uttarakhand)