Cat Trapped in a Room and Education System!

That was a terrible scream, by my roommates around midnight. As I saw them sitting on their bed I imagined someone with a knife like weapon, about to attack us. I said 'Shhh... be quiet...', that merely was a reflex! within a few microseconds I became conscious and I thought 'what happened?...'. It was an uninvited guest, a cat! who entered into our room and was sleeping with one of my roommate. But it hid somewhere. I got up, switched on the light and opened the door.

We were so cautious since the cat must have been scared by our response and hence it would probably run around and it's claws would hurt us. After searching for a while, the cat was found beneath a table around a corner of our room. The next task was to get it out of the room. We started thinking of frightening it, but it's a bit risky since it's claws...

Then we called on of our batch mate Miss X, who is a cat lover and know how to deal with them. She came and tried to tame the cat. I was counting each second wishing for the cat to come out. A few minutes elapsed, the cat changed it's position; underneath a bed. Miss X kept on calling it. Then with a little bit skeptic steps it moved towards Miss X and made comfortable itself within her hands. She patted and rubbed the cat and it became her friend!

Then while we talking she kept it down on the floor. It's behavior grabbed my attention.

That cat, who was scared a while ago started playing with one of my roommate's school bag! We then dispersed back to sleep. I couldn't sleep for hours, I kept on thinking about it's behavior...

This is not merely a story about a cat intruding into our room instead a chain of thoughts regarding the way of educating a child.

Let us go back to the cat story;

1. We wanted the cat to move out of our room without attacking us.

2. We lacked the knowledge, how to make it behave the way we wanted.

3. The only plan we had was to 'frighten' it, so that it would go out (exploiting the fly or fight 

     mechanism of all living being except plants or trees!). But what if the cat fights back?!

4. Alternative idea; get the help of an expert, who knows how to handle them wisely.

5. 'That intelligence', how to handle a cat wisely made our life easy. Neither the cat made 

     unfair movement nor we hurt it. And everything went as we -including the cat 

     probably- wished.

Now let us consider our children. We -the public- used to say 'we must punish the children in order to make them disciplined, well behaved, to respect elders, to STUDY, to obey etc '

Are we uncivilized human being to think in such a manner that to make the children do something, as we plough with cattle; by physical forces???

When the education board ask us not to hit children we laugh at them thinking 'how fool are they, enforcing stupid laws not knowing how to handle children! Children must be punished hard to make them disciplined...' 

The old school thoughts, old enough that of a caveman...

No one would achieve what hesher wish to, via a system merely based on punishments.

We need to get up from our ignorance and to make our children comfortable as the cat within Miss X's hands, to be well behaved , to be educated and for being much more efficient... For that what we need is a society with a wise parenting techniques, or else none of the innovative education system would help in developing a child.