THE CLASSROOM TAP : MASTER COMPREHENSION

FOR ALMOST all of the Developing World : Lesson 1 is that the Classroom needs a teacher and not a tyrant. So do you want to see the assembly line for trauma? Then look at the classrooms.

Here the education system does not correct children; it controls them through terror and humiliation.

The classroom follows the same degrading ritual of punishments that has nothing to do with learning and everything to do with breaking the child's / angel's innocent spirit.

Forget homework once, and the teacher orders the student to write the same sentence fifty or hundred times, not because repetition improves understanding, but because it satisfies their cruel need for control.

Forget a notebook, and the student is made to stand outside the class for the entire period, missing the lesson while being labeled careless.

Come late, even for reasons beyond control, and the punishment is public shaming, standing in front of the class like an offender, while moments, dignity and self-worth are brutally shredded on display.

If a student cannot answer a question, they are forced to stand until they ''remember'', while classmates stare and laugh.

If handwriting is weak, the notebook is thrown back, pages are torn, and insults follow. If the spelling is wrong, the child / angel is ordered to copy the entire page again and again.

If a student talks, they are shouted at. If they stay quiet, they are accused of not paying attention. If they seek clarity, they are scolded to stop being oversmart.

If they make eye contact, they are seen as disrespectful. If they look down, they are called weak. There is no way to win in a system designed to punish your very existence.

Is this empowering teaching or is it emotional torture?

Do you think that by doing that, you are discipling them? Let me clarify one thing for you : this is not disciplining. This is pure bullying. Yes !bullying!

What you are creating inside the student is not obedience, but PTSD [ Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ], chronic self-doubt, emotional numbness, suppressed rage and alexithymia [ the inability to identify or express emotions].

So yes, you are not shaping obedience; you are, in fact, manufacturing trauma.

Many psychologists and criminologists agree on one very uncomfortable truth : persistent public shaming, emotional abuse and social rejection can twist a developing mind.

This does not excuse crime, but it explains how cruelty injects the venom that later grows into anger, hatred and moral detachment.

This Master Publishing continues. The World Students Society thanks Yumna Zahid Ali, from Harvard Project Zero-trained educator and internationally published writer and journalist.