How does a school play a role in Personality Development?

Personality is the first aspect of an individual that one comes across on the first meeting. A personality can change things around, good or worse. It isn’t a day’s job to develop a personality. Building a child’s personality is a continuous process. A child learns everything from its surroundings; he/she grasps even the small things happening around him/her, and inculcates the same in their behaviour. In earlier years of a child’s life, the major source of learning is its parents, and as the child grows, the school takes the place of the parents and nurtures the child.

Many people believe that school plays a significant role in the development of a child’s personality, and thus how a school reacts to it matters a lot. We at ODM Public School, one of the best CBSE schools in Bhubaneswar, believe in an equal mix of both learning methods and well-educated teachers at our school. Some of the good schools in Bhubaneswar work towards creating a healthy and sustainable environment for a child to grow. The school encourages them:

●    To explore Ideas and Thoughts: There is so much chaos in one’s world which affects their mental growth and well-being. School is a safe place for most of the children, where they explore their thoughts and ideas and discuss with their friends or batch-mates, or in some schools with a professional counsellor. They start believing and trusting themselves. A confident child spreads a strong aura and develops an unmatched personality.

●   To Participate in Co-Curricular Activities: Stage-phobia, spoken skills, body language while presenting something, being the leader and speaking confidently in front of teammates, creatively inclined, current knowledge, aptitude, and other small such elements of school learning develops a child’s personality. Coming forward to take responsibility and participating builds a student’s skills and attitude and hence the personality development.

●     To enhance Social Skills: A school is the finest place for a child to understand the importance of social skills. With social skills, a child learns to respect people, punctuality, confidence, faithfulness, discipline, creativity, knowledge, affection, intelligence, honesty, and truthfulness to be able to adjust socially. A social kid has one of the most out-going personalities which everyone loves and looks up to.

●    To Develop Healthy Habits: A disciplined child develops healthy habits. Waking up early and going to bed on time, eating healthy food, physical activities like yoga and other day-to-day activities affect a child’s behaviour and reaction towards people, work, and anything that is in life. How a child reacts showcases the personality of the child. A school works on the child’s attitude towards things and try to make them humble and opportunistic.

The role played by a school has a very significant impact on a child’s personality development, it is therefore important to improvise the method of imparting knowledge. Apart from bookish knowledge, participating in games, organising cultural programs and national-international festivals, holding various competitions at school is equally important. Such activities will build a child’s presence of mind and should be a part of their regular activities. At schools in Bhubaneswar, a period should be dedicated towards value education where the child learns to be humble, polite, non-gullible and generous towards one another.

Today, parents are not just looking to enrol their children in a school for education but in an institution that builds their child’s personality and encourage them to go beyond what they are capable of, and ODM Public School is one such public school in Bhubaneswar.