"Don't limit your child's learning for she was born in another time"-Rabindranath Tagore

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time”. Right now I can recall some of father’s stories which always begin with “In our time this was the case…..” and ending with “……but today it is so different”. We are ourselves have witnessed this change the cell phone boom, the dot com boom, we have lived through it all. The world around us is on a constant move and nothing remains the same for a large amount of time one can never be sure that what exists today may exist tomorrow, but even in this fast moving time we can be sure of one thing: CHANGE. Change is something which is an all-time present force, the world is remoulding, constantly reshaping to adjust to changes taking place around us causing even more changes; thus, causing a vicious circle of always changing. We understand that things always change and we accept this change, but why is it that we have limited our understanding to this change? Why do we not understand that like all things around us the time’s in which our children are born also changes. Their needs are different, their environment is different, their thoughts, their ideas. They live in a time when if you tell them that you lived without a TV, some may not even believe you because they find the TV to be a mundane everyday object unlike your childhood when it was a luxury. Being a doctor, engineer, even a civil servant were at was considered a good profession which was in line with the society’s norms. Writing or painting or even acting were something which one simply dabbled in not took up as a profession, though there were always exceptions but this was what fit the society’s norms and normally they were not very flexible Today the world has increasingly consolidated into one whole due to the increasing technological advances and has been called many a different names one of them being ‘Global Village’, the world today has become a melting port where physical boundaries have lost their importance and various