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Literally speaking, sympathy means feeling with others. It is the tendency of sharing emotions with others. It works so quickly that it may be termed as unconscious tendency. Sympathy is thus feeling as others feel in the absence of logically adequate grounds for feeling in that manner. When a mother sees her son injured, she instantaneously feels hurt. When a child cries in distress, his other companions at once share his feeling.
Gautama saw an old man, a diseased man and a dead person. His mind became perturbed at the sight so much so that he proceeded to make a life-long search for the solution of the three problems old-age, disease and death. Not only is distress and pain shared, pleasure and delight also is shared by companions.
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Essay on the Role of Sympathy in Education:
(i) Role of the teacher:
Sympathy has great educational significance. It leads to altruism and true fellow-feeling. This should be inculcated in children from the very start. The teacher can do this directly or indirectly. Indirectly, while teaching literature, he may express his feelings and sentiments through gestures and words, so that the pupils catch the same feelings.
The teachers teach good moral conduct by showing the worthy feelings about good and bad conduct. He can win the hearts of the pupils through sympathy. Again, he should be sympathetic towards the pupils. If he punishes the pupils, he should punish in a manner that the sympathies of other pupils are with him, and not with the culprit.
(ii) Emotional integration:
Sympathy is the best means of emotional integration. In a class, where there are all types of pupils, coming from different strata of society, the teacher can mould them into one pattern by the powerful weapon of sympathy. He should try o bind them together through common feeling of sympathy, raise their feeling from the lower level of individualism to the higher level of altruism.
(iii) Appreciation of Literature:
Sympathy aids in the appreciation of literature. When the entire group reads a tragedy, all are moved by the same feeling. We sympathise with the hero or heroine. In ordinary course also, we sympathise with the hero or heroine, and feel in the manner they feel. This principle is well-explained in Indian literary criticism. As sympathy helps in the appreciation of literature, the teacher should exploit all the situations while teaching, poetry, play, biography, short story, novel or history, so that sympathy is created amongst all equally. Besides appreciation of literature, aesthetic sensibility also can be taught through sympathy.
(iv) Character Formation:
Sympathy is an asset in the emotional development and character formation. One who has strong active sympathy towards others in distress, dedicates himself to the service of such persons. Fellow-feeling and brotherhood are essentials of character development and social development. Love and Ahinsa are two strong foundational principles of character.
(v) Discipline:
Discipline can be maintained in the class, if the sympathies of all the students are with the teacher. If the majority of the pupils is with the teacher, he can easily control the rebellious pupils and thus maintain the discipline. Sympathy will be helpful in establishing rapport with the adolescents, who may, otherwise, disobey the teacher.
(vi) Method of cultivation:
Sympathy can be cultivated in a number of ways. Firstly, example should be set by the teacher. He should himself be sympathetic towards the pupil. Secondly, the pupils must be made to acquire a practical realization that the other fellow has sensitivity similar to one’s own. Thirdly, anger and aggression must be controlled. A child who can control his anger is in a better position to develop his capacity for sympathising with others. Anger and aggression are just the opposite of sympathy.
5. Essay on the Limitations of Sympathy:
Sympathy is harmful when it is abused or exploited for harmful, selfish or destructive purposes. The teacher may arouse the sympathies of the pupils for a child punished, and thus lead a revolt against the headmaster, with whom he does not have good relations.
A communist teacher may exploit the sympathies of the poor, and thus preach communist ideologies. During the period of sympathetic feeling, a person loses his judgment to some extent. It is therefore, that a mob when aroused to fury may turn to destruction.
Some leaders aroused the sympathies of Hindus for the cows, organised agitations and led the angry mobs to destructive actions. A leader-type student may similarly arouse the sympathies of the pupils through any pretex, and lead strikes and revolts against the school authorities.
It is the duty of the school authorities to guard against the abuse of sympathy. With all the limitations of sympathy, it is a very useful weapon to raise the moral and emotional level of the pupils. Sympathy leads to social service and altruism.
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(i) Role of the teacher:
Sympathy has great educational significance. It leads to altruism and true fellow-feeling. This should be inculcated in children from the very start. The teacher can do this directly or indirectly. Indirectly, while teaching literature, he may express his feelings and sentiments through gestures and words, so that the pupils catch the same feelings.
The teachers teach good moral conduct by showing the worthy feelings about good and bad conduct. He can win the hearts of the pupils through sympathy. Again, he should be sympathetic towards the pupils. If he punishes the pupils, he should punish in a manner that the sympathies of other pupils are with him, and not with the culprit.
(ii) Emotional integration:
Sympathy is the best means of emotional integration. In a class, where there are all types of pupils, coming from different strata of society, the teacher can mould them into one pattern by the powerful weapon of sympathy. He should try o bind them together through common feeling of sympathy, raise their feeling from the lower level of individualism to the higher level of altruism.
(iii) Appreciation of Literature:
Sympathy aids in the appreciation of literature. When the entire group reads a tragedy, all are moved by the same feeling. We sympathise with the hero or heroine. In ordinary course also, we sympathise with the hero or heroine, and feel in the manner they feel. This principle is well-explained in Indian literary criticism. As sympathy helps in the appreciation of literature, the teacher should exploit all the situations while teaching, poetry, play, biography, short story, novel or history, so that sympathy is created amongst all equally. Besides appreciation of literature, aesthetic sensibility also can be taught through sympathy.
(iv) Character Formation:
Sympathy is an asset in the emotional development and character formation. One who has strong active sympathy towards others in distress, dedicates himself to the service of such persons. Fellow-feeling and brotherhood are essentials of character development and social development. Love and Ahinsa are two strong foundational principles of character.
(v) Discipline:
Discipline can be maintained in the class, if the sympathies of all the students are with the teacher. If the majority of the pupils is with the teacher, he can easily control the rebellious pupils and thus maintain the discipline. Sympathy will be helpful in establishing rapport with the adolescents, who may, otherwise, disobey the teacher.
(vi) Method of cultivation:
Sympathy can be cultivated in a number of ways. Firstly, example should be set by the teacher. He should himself be sympathetic towards the pupil. Secondly, the pupils must be made to acquire a practical realization that the other fellow has sensitivity similar to one’s own. Thirdly, anger and aggression must be controlled. A child who can control his anger is in a better position to develop his capacity for sympathising with others. Anger and aggression are just the opposite of sympathy.
5. Essay on the Limitations of Sympathy:
Sympathy is harmful when it is abused or exploited for harmful, selfish or destructive purposes. The teacher may arouse the sympathies of the pupils for a child punished, and thus lead a revolt against the headmaster, with whom he does not have good relations.
A communist teacher may exploit the sympathies of the poor, and thus preach communist ideologies. During the period of sympathetic feeling, a person loses his judgment to some extent. It is therefore, that a mob when aroused to fury may turn to destruction.
Some leaders aroused the sympathies of Hindus for the cows, organised agitations and led the angry mobs to destructive actions. A leader-type student may similarly arouse the sympathies of the pupils through any pretex, and lead strikes and revolts against the school authorities.
It is the duty of the school authorities to guard against the abuse of sympathy. With all the limitations of sympathy, it is a very useful weapon to raise the moral and emotional level of the pupils. Sympathy leads to social service and altruism.
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PLZZ MARK AS BRAINLIST
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