Combining Tradition and Innovation in Education
posted on Dec 04, 2024
Gurukul The School, regarded as the best school in Ghaziabad, would like to take a moment and pat our backs, for our educational philosophy, for as long as we can remember, has thrived on the best of two worlds, aka the simplicity of tradition and the sophistication of innovation
At one of the recent PTAs, we discussed an interesting topic. How should education be? Tradition-based, innovation-based, or a mix of both?
We will be honest; we were expecting mixed replies. However, we were in for a pleasant surprise when everyone came back with a unanimous answer, i.e., option three, a combination of tradition and innovation.
We at Gurukul The School, regarded as the best school in Ghaziabad, would like to take a moment and pat our backs, for our educational philosophy, for as long as we can remember, has thrived on the best of two worlds, aka the simplicity of tradition and the sophistication of innovation. So, today, in this blog post, we will talk about why a blend of tradition and innovation works the best when it comes to imparting education to young minds.
Why Combine Tradition with Innovation in Education?
Parents, just take a minute and go down memory lane into your childhood. You will recollect a basic classroom comprising wooden chairs, a desk, a blackboard, a few chalks, a duster, and a teacher teaching out of a textbook. Isn’t it?
We are sure you are grateful for every bit of it for what that learning has made you today. But, at the same time, you'll agree that today's children have way more exposure and are smarter than how you were at that age.
If children have progressed, learning should too, which is why we at Gurukul The School are invested in blended learning, which sides the sanctity of traditional textbooks and tutoring while adding hints of tech-based integration. We see this helping our students to cope better with challenges and find a meaningful way into their future.
- Addressing Children’s Diverse Needs:
Over the years, we have keenly observed and understood that every child learns and looks at things in their own unique way. While one child may be excellent at reading and memorizing concepts, another might be curious to go to the depth of individual concepts.
This is where striking a balance between tradition and innovation becomes important, something we at Gurukul The School have been achieving uniquely. Our traditional approach focuses on building a structure and going to the depth of the subject, while innovation is primarily about personalizing learning and making the process interactive. Surely, it is a strong combination that has the potential to aid the needs of every child interested in learning.
- Sowing Seeds to Continuous Learning:
A few years back, excelling in academics and learning well was restricted to scoring good scores in examinations. However, ways in which students are assessed today have changed drastically, which means there is a glaring need for knowledge impartment to change too.
What better way than to unify tradition and innovation? This not only makes children curious to keep asking for more but also molds them into lifelong learners. We feel proud to share with you all that recently, six of our students earned the “generation global badges”, an aspiration that would have remained far-fetched had we not emphasized equally on tradition and innovation in learning.
Today’s children do not restrict themselves to the domestic frontiers. They want to break free and move forward to solving global problems. Speaking of global issues, we at Gurukul The School would like to remind you how diverse and demanding these can be.
That brings us to the point where we started this discussion, which is to envelope tradition-based learning with a coat of futuristic and modern techniques, aka innovation-based learning so that children understand global demands and aspirations inside out and be prepared to face them with confidence.
Let us just say that there is a need to pick on historic texts to serve the purpose of tradition while choosing artificial intelligence and machine learning to make the ends of innovation meet.
You might wonder what point we are trying to make here, however, the fact remains that 21st-century educational excellence depends heavily on the roots of traditions and intelligence of innovation. It is the demand of today’s world that cannot be ignored, which is why we at Gurukul The School are not leaving any stone unturned to strike a balance between tradition and innovation.
You see our students excelling at the National Debate Competition to taking it easy with yoga and mindfulness. These diverse ends are being met only because of the culmination of tradition and innovation in education.
Education is Incomplete Without the Merger of Tradition and Innovation:
All this while, if you have been tossing the coin to decide between tradition and innovation as far as the educational impartment is concerned, we ask you to keep the coin aside. Wondering why? All because this blog post gives you enough reasons to stop siding with one of the options and instead choose a combination of both.
We at Gurukul The School, recognized as the top schools in Ghaziabad, fully understand that with education being deep-rooted on the traditional side, it can get difficult to give innovation its due. However, it is a matter of time for the transition to see the light of the day—It is time when every student, teacher, parent, and educational institute is willing to see tradition and innovation blended with each other and overlap each other in education.