During the monsoon, festivals, and long winter holidays, children get important opportunities to learn about nature, culture, and various aspects of life.
What you should know
Before the long calendar of school holidays is released, children are filled with enthusiasm, excitement and dreams. Holidays are a special celebration for students, which adds freshness to their lives. In the daily routine of studying, homework and teacher-governed school life, holidays are a ‘festival’ for students. There is no sound of a bell, no teacher’s supervision! During the days of childhood, children are as free as birds with feelings and creativity.
In fact, vacation is an exciting break outside the regular schedule for children. At this time, they enter the wider world from the school yard, get closer to nature, and wander in the world of personal dreams and imagination.
Holidays given during festivals, monsoons, and winters are directly linked to agriculture, culture, nature, and life. At that time, students can learn the ups and downs of our struggling lives. Therefore, long vacations are not only a leisure time from studying, but also a class to understand culture and life, where they can read lessons that are not taught in books. Vacations also make students creative.
Continuous schooling increases stress, pressure, and fatigue in the child's brain. Children return to school with new energy by traveling to special places during vacations. Vacation trips add a new perspective to them, broaden their knowledge of nature and culture. Vacations make students closer to their family and home, and make them feel a sense of responsibility towards society.
After the long holiday of Nepali festivals, students are now going to school. However, the real fun of the holiday has ended, and the burden of homework assigned by the teacher has left them carrying their school bags full of books.
In this issue of ‘Koseli’, we have remembered the days of the holiday. The writers, who were surrounded by the stress of homework even during the holidays of childhood, have the opinion that the teacher should teach the student to dream freely, should read his liberated soul.
Read the full Holiday and Childhood Special Issue published in Koseli:
I had a ‘time pass’ in school : Biplav Pratik
Holidays spent singing songs : Abhi Subedi
Dashain’s ‘homework’ i.e. ‘nightmare’ : Dikshita Karki
Players don't get any holidays : Vishal Shrestha
