We have gradually evolved from Gurukul system to Google system of education today. Hence, this has become a challenging task both for teachers and students.

Today there is a technological-knowledge-explosion and exploration into the field of education at a click. And it has become imperative that every teacher keeps pace with this educational revolution and enhances his skill-sets to fit into the demanding scenario of education.

We ought to prepare students for the twenty-first-century challenges. Quality of education has to improve in schools, amount of care, love and affection for the children has to double for handling students with homely care, intensive teaching and extensive coaching should become part of the century’s education. And education rooted in our culture, and holistic development of the child with a focus on admission to prestigious colleges, universities and employment commensurate with one aptitude and qualification has become the need of the hour.

Thanks to changing trends in the field of education, parents have become more apprehensive about their ward’s education and future. It’s school’s onus to dispel the apprehension and fulfill the demands of the parental expectation towards quality education to every student.

Every child entrusted in school care must be nurtured like a gardener nurturing sapling, fertilizing, pruning and letting the sapling grow as per its potentiality, according all external support, and succor it requires.

Assessments are not only for students but equally also for teachers. A teacher’s teaching is measured threadbare in his classroom teaching as a student’s learning. In this scenario, the one who takes the rough with the tough survives, and the incapable one quits.

We must prepare our students as history creators, not merely history readers. Twenty-first children should be taught to epitomize Dr Kalam’s words: Dream, dream, dream. In fact, they should be taught to dream about their ambitions and how to attain their ambitions. For which classroom teaching has to be made more effective in order to churn out outstanding academic achievers, good citizens, philosophers, reformers, catalysts of education, persons strongly rooted in values and ethics and so on. So classroom is the best platform for building the pillars-students of the country!

Twenty-first-century educators should counter and redeem children from falling prey to social media, social networking, harmful play stations, hero-worship trends, and so on so as to concentrate and focus on studies. Condoning these will spoil the child and his future. Education thus is getting more and more complex: students coerced to undergo undue stress, agony, and anxiety simply for marks, forgoing on holistic development of the child.

So, teaching fraternity has to awake and take up these challenges to create socially, emotionally, ethically, academically strong personalities, who can act as beacon light to many in the 21^st century.