Students and Strikes

These days strikes have been become a common talk. Workers in factories and mills, clerks in the offices, shopkeepers, students and even sweepers go on strike. In most of the cases the cause of strike is very slight but strikes have become a fashion. Those who go on strike say that their dignity and interest have been injured. In these days, students take more part in strike than any other section of society.

Strikes from students began in our country as political demonstrations. Now they have developed into a habit. The students use this method to get their grievances redressed. They like to go on strikes. Now students are happy at two times: when they have holidays and when they are on strikes. On very idle excuses they throw down their books, close the lecture rooms and come out on roads, raising slogans. If principal fines a defaulter students go on strike. If the teacher is a strict disciplinarian, students go on strike as a protest. This thing is very bad and must come to an end. But this does not mean that all the time students go on strike just for fun. Sometimes there are very genuine causes of these strikes. In the first place, they are exploited by the political leaders. These experienced leaders know that the young blood is very hot. They incite them to go on strikes and thus they gain their own ends. The students of other institutions observe sympathetic strikes. In this way the whole educational atmosphere is spoilt. In the second place, some defects in educational institutions become the cause of strike. Education today is very costly and an average student cannot afford it. Over discipline also provoke the students to adopt wrong and objectionable attitude. Sometimes the behavior of principal or a lecturer sparks off the strike. Some professors never hesitate to abuse, attack and beat the students. In the third place, parents are also to be blamed for the misbehavior of their children. They neglect the upbringing of their wards and they begin to take part in strikes. In the last, the majority of our students have no idea about what they really want to do. A very small percentage of them have any hobby. Thus they spend time to indulge in activities like strikes.

Certain remedies are necessary to end this trend. First, whatever may be the cause of strikes, the students should be dealt wisely. We must give sympathetic consideration to the demands of the student. If their demands are unfair, we should try to advise them and guide them. In case of students, love, sympathy and kindness are more fruitful than violence. Secondly, Greater cooperation and understanding between the teacher and the taught is necessary. The students will follow their teacher’s advice in all matters and there will be no trouble. Lastly, parents should keep a strict eye over the activities of their wards. They should save them from evil influences.