Thread:Cashane Biggs/@comment-45375493-20200403182419

Holistic development is defined by Google.com as “a practical approach to a comprehensive learning system where physical, social, emotional, mind and spiritual growth of a child is taken care. This style of education not only focuses on mere learning but also on implementing what is learnt.” Looking at the definition one could ask questions such as: are our children being catered to holistically, why is it important for them to be given the opportunities for holistic development, do they have a right to holistic development? Looking at the first question it is very hard to give a confident “yes” answer. There are so many different things at play in today’s society that are affecting the growth (physical, spiritual and mental) of our children. Often times only a specific area of a child’s development is attended to, while developments in other areas are being left to chance. For example, parents and guardians will spend their life savings to ensure that their children get a “good education” on the other hand some of those very parents and guardians question whether or not their children should be required to go to the school’s devotion, or engage in any devotional activities what so ever, stating that their children should have the right to choose if they want to or not. At the rate at which we are going, pretty soon children will be given the right to choose whether are not they want to get an education. The fact is that children are not given immediate responsibility to take care of themselves because at birth and during the first few years of their lives, they are incapable of doing so. The adults in their lives are responsible for children’s holistic development; this includes but by no means is limited to making provisions for them the get a good education.  