Discipline in Student’s Life

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

Discipline is known as a set of rules that help to follow system. It is much contextual as it varies according to the system of the place, organization, society, culture, and so on. It maintain system if a workplace so that we can get the better outcome from human force. It is known as the ornament of any person that reflects his/her behavior that helps a person to be established in the society or in their workplace. So discipline is too much important for any person to be successful in their life.

Mainly, we teach students about need of discipline in their life which they should have learnt from their prime age. They should follow the system which is established in school or in home. When they expose to the society, they should be able to carry such behaviours to the society so that s/he can be a responsible citizen of the nation. The students should follow or obey their teachers; they should love to the juniors and respect their seniors; they should be example among friends; they should do their classwork and homework promptly; they should read well so that they can get good marks in the examination; and they should respect their parents and so on.  The above things would determine their future life whether they are going to be successful or not.

In other words, discipline is the opposite word of undisciplined. In the context of undisciplined, people don’t have system. They don’t follow the rules of the organization or the society and be odd. S/he hasn’t obeyed their elders nor do they express their love to juniors. If it is student, s/he doesn’t follow the rules of the school or s/he has done whatever s/he likes. S/he doesn’t obey her/his teachers rather s/he takes teachers as enemy. They have problem of doing classwork and homework. Ultimately, it will disturb others and the person is excluded from the system.

I am going to talk about the discipline of the children in school level. Mostly the students of nine and ten have got problem of discipline in schools. According to the Nepalese system of education class nine and ten would be regarded as secondary level. The children would also enter into their mid-teenage. They have been struggling to be independent from the system of schools and home. They have understood some more from their reading which makes them more revolutionary. So they think to be free from the system and they think to establish a different system which would fit to them. They have even followed the popular culture which they have seen on television, magazines and in social media. So their age is transitional age and they have started to violate the rules along with their independent feelings.

One of the students of class ten just decided not to read. He didn’t like to come to school. He had performed weak in first terminal examination and the parents and teachers criticized and rebuked him. When asked about the cause of admonition, he told that his mother scolded him so that he didn’t have interest to read. I asked him what he thought in his life. He replied that he wanted to work but he didn’t mention the work.

When I asked about the pinching incident he stated that his mother scolded him in class eight. He also reported that it was the month of Poush (December/ January). When asked further he couldn’t say the matter which made him inspire to go out of the school. I talked with him more than 45 minutes emphasizing the importance of education. He didn’t accept it rather expressed his disinterest to read.

The above condition reflects the common student problem in these days. The children have so much courage that they even challenge the decision of their home and school. They seem revolutionary and they proceed ahead ignoring their life. Discipline reflects the character of any person. It helps to form their character which would fit to the society. The main aim of discipline is to make person improve his/her habits. If they can’t improve their habits they will fall into bad company. Accordingly they would follow the wrong path in their life which could damage their career. So the character improvement seems quite difficult discourse in our context.

The person who has followed ethics would be disciplined. S/he should be ethical to be a right person in their life. Man is a social animal and s/he should be morally right to lead the society. They have been evaluated along with the quality what they have got. If they are ethically right, they will be praised in the society; neither will they be disrespected from the society. Finally, the motto of discipline is to make man more ethical along with the rules and system of the society who could contribute for the right approach.