When a child enters a school, his first relationship is established with the teacher. Particularly, the child imitates his/her accent of pronunciation, handwriting and presentation style. All these impressions are the first inputs to his/her mind so he/she quickly assimilates these and remain in his/her mind for the whole of his/her life. This point is particularly important for the parents to take care of what type of teacher their ward is going to get in the school.At home, he/she was mostly alone of his/her age and was getting unrestricted care of the parents. At school, he/she sees the teacher as substitution to his/her parent and expect the same treatment but does not get it. So he/she feels that his/her care and freedom of home gets restricted due to presence of other children, and sees them as his/her rivals. For this reason, his/her interactions with other children grow very slowly.
With aging, the child gets accustomed to school's environment and compromises with his/her freedom at home. This is his/her first systematic lesson of getting disciplined.
Although, every relationship puts some restrictions on individual's liberties, or in other words, disciplines him/her but with parents, the child does not feel the compulsion of it and he considers being assertive on his/her whims as his/her birthright. At school, his notion of being assertive gets molded into a social discipline.
At schooling level, the other important behavioral lesson to the child is of cooperation coupled with competition. Yes, these two contradictory traits are ingrained in the mind of the child simultaneously baptising his/her personality. These mutually opposite dualities of nature in general, and of life in particular, starts becoming part and parcel of his/her life.
The child cooperates with other children as a social element while he/she competes with them for his/her better survival and dominance on others. And thus, he/she gets trained to the life of an adult, at least in this respect. It is noteworthy here that a child's behavior at schools and that at home are quite incomparable.
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I think a very important relationship involved with schooling is that of the parent and the teacher. If the parent is not willing to be involved in school, it makes it almost impossible for a student to be successful in the school environment. Parent participation has always been the key to successful students!
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