Students and not teachers or parents should be allowed to choose the stream they want to study.” Express your views for or against this statement.
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Every year majority of young minds are confused while choosing streams and careers. If a wrong choice is made, where interest and aptitude of a child does not fit, it leads to change in the field after few months and sometimes even few years, wasting time and effort of the child.For this, not only educational system but parents and society is also responsible, opine physiological experts, who warn that the situation could also lead many students towards depression and anxiety.
“Right from the childhood, interest and talent of a child should be given high importance and it must be kept in mind that every child is different. If we force him to choose a stream against his interest, he may never be able to excel in life,” said Jatinder Kaur Gulati, head of human development department at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
“The worst part is that most parents want their children to become doctor and engineer and never ask them about their choice. On top of that, they want them to score more than 90%. That is why depression and suicide rates are highest in India as per a UN report,” added Gulati.