Kindness Matters

Our education has gone terribly wrong. Now the country is suffering from all the wrong we did in the past in teaching. I would like to talk about my very recent faced harassment in Bangladesh immigration, Agartala. People who are seating over there are totally corrupted mentally and financially as well. They used to treat people in a very mean manner. How mean people can be?

Say a custom officer in the Agartala immigration section. At first, he will start talking by pronouncing you 'tumi/tui'. Like an immigration officer of this office. Then he will ask wired questions by showing his inherited mean behavior. He will provoke you in many ways to give him money. If you be a person with less sense of bribe then he will start to tell you a more accused word about custom policy. Obviously, it will end up in harassment. After all, he will directly tell you to give him some money(bribes) for snacks!! My foot they are calling it "chay/nasta"! This is about economical corruption. Feeling bad to talk about mental corruption.

Where is the gap? why people are doing this. From the perspective of Bangladesh, a government job in the customs sector is so glorious and well settled. Then what triggered them to seek bribe from the gentle citizens?

To get this point we need to discuss, the learning process they have been through in their past life? These all are the consequences of our past educational fault. We were concerned about educated people. And defined the educated person as who can read and write or maximum ability to operate computer and machine. But didn't think about social and emotional learning.

This is really a missing part of our education. Even our policymaker is not thinking about social and emotional learning. It should be included in the curriculum. Social and emotional learning should be driven purposefully with enriched learning tools.

The world community is talking about digital learning and educational transformation to humanity. This is our high time to incorporate social-emotional and digital learning in our curriculum. Who wants to face this kind of immigration office and officer. Need to improvise curriculum to make kind citizens.
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