Indian parents are still very particular about the schooling of their children. Which school is to be chosen, which school would be the most suitable for the child, which school will help the child in his/her overall development; are some of their frequently asked queries. But there is still one thing in which some of the Indian parents behave too much in particular and have a very narrow thinking about. Some of the parents still tend to feel and believe that the primary role of the school in a child's life has been just and just to provide education, and there is hardly any role of extracurricular activities in the development of the child's mind and soul. Now what they do is; to look for only those schools which are very much strict or disciplined in the matter of studies and hardly encourage other activities for the pupils. There are certain schools which only focus upon educational curriculum, securing highest marks is the only motive of those schools. Such schools do not focus upon making up a wise and intellectual personality of the child, but rather advances upon making an engineer, doctor or entrepreneur. In such school sometimes the children feel very restricted and constrained. They seek for other activities because the absence of other activities apart from studies would obviously be very bounding for the children. And here the parents feel very much satisfied with this type of system of the school and they rather prefer to admit their children in these schools where the child is always burdened with studies and more studies. In such a way the parents are only limiting the vast scope of growth that is facilitated by other activities like sports, dance, music, painting and so on. Especially the parents who could not study well in their past are found to be more restricted for their children and they push them towards these schools where their minds get trapped in studies and busy in competing with other student for the sake of marks. This is truly an ironic picture of the Indian parents and their belief system. These beliefs need to be rectified and should be replaced with new beliefs that a school should be chosen very wisely, a school is a place that provides an atmosphere for the child to grow and flourish in all the respects. Studies are just a part of schooling and not the meaning for it!
