There is something to be said about integrating road safety into school learning at an early age. The lessons will tend to be better absorbed at that age, and have a lifetime effect for many
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A Regional Transport Office (RTO) official observed at a local school event recently that children listen to their teachers more than their parents. The official was quoted in a news report as stating that if children start following traffic rules early, the number of accidents will reduce drastically. The official pointed to a recent drop in road accidents in Thane. Schools and teachers must start influencing traffic behaviour, she said.
There is something to be said about integrating road safety into school learning at an early age. The lessons will tend to be better absorbed at that age, and have a lifetime effect for many. Road safety can be included in the syllabi of a certain class and go on till an appropriate age. Children will learn road safety in Mumbai, India and internationally, too. Creatively structured, the subject will certainly have much to offer students.
One of the greatest upsides of this is that road safety is not just academic. Years later, too, children have that learning which they can put into practice all their lives. How many times have we thought, why were we taught a subject when we were in school and we never used that knowledge outside the classroom at all? While that may not be true of everybody, there are people who think that way at times. Road safety is life learning; we carry it with us throughout. Ingrained from childhood, it makes a much greater impact than just learning a few traffic rules when learning to drive, etc. Road safety is a survival skill. There may be something to treating it like a serious school subject, holding examinations, both theory and practical and counting these marks in the overall total for the percentage. Academics and experts, this is certainly something to think about.
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