Some people think that parents should teach their children about the importance of recycling, while others think it should be taught in school. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Why Schools
Schools can handle such important areas very carefully and effectively - by designing appropriate courseware, arranging resources like faculty and teaching about technical aspects of this process - which will help convince young minds about the relevance of this process.
Schools are vested/ given with the obligation /duty of polishing the personalities of children - recycling is likely to become an important trait of personalities of rational adults, it should be fostered during formative years.
They learn better in a formal environment, among their peers, and also grab the content clearly which is retained longer
Why Parents
Parents are role models for their wards and the latter follow the footsteps and precedents set by the former without questioning: What parents will do will automatically be grasped by the latter.
This skills is better learnt in practical environment and this can be rendered easily by families
Adding one more subject to curriculum will be useless as environmental engineering and geography are already taught in schools
This will impose an unnecessary burden on tender minds, and will be deprived of any free time left with them
When it comes to preparing the young generation to embrace recycling:a pivotal component of environment protection, society finds itself at poles by deciding about who should take the onus of this task, families or formal tuition. I feel this process enjoys monumental significance, and thus, should be a joint responsibility.
The view of the section rallying behind schools donning the mantle about disseminating knowledge about reprocessing household waste and redundant goods, hinges on the fact that these institutions play a dominant role in carving the overall personality of youngsters, helping them grow up as rational and well-informed adults, empathetic towards the surroundings, and since this endeavor is a vital element of any plans aimed that sustaining the planet that also require individual intervention, education about this subject should be imparted in classrooms during formative years.
Similarly, these establishments boast of versatile expertise, and experience, in designing curriculum and (ancillary) support activities to ensure the effective delivery of content related to such complex and critical topics, and also monitor how well young people have been able to absorb the knowledge by testing the latter, through written and practical exams. Thus, they should take ownership in this undertaking.
Nevertheless, mothers and fathers cannot escape (circumvent) this obligation since they are the role models for their wards: the latter have profound (unflinching) trust on the former and tend to follow the precedents without questions and reluctance. To corroborate, if elders of the family abstain from imprudent practices like wasting food, electricity and money, the young ones also emulate such habits.
In hindsight, the burden of negotiating such an essential task cannot be vested on one party, owing to the importance it carries for the planet, as well as mankind: concerted efforts would produce an enlightened future generation.
