In an earlier post I had I had mentioned that I hate poems and poets. Now I know why I hate them. Now I understand why I hate most of the things I hate. I attended a session on parenting from a well known psychiatrist in Trivandrum.
He talked about brain readiness. Children are not supposed to walk until they are around 1 yr old. We dont force them to walk before that. We will never say to a 6 month old child “Hey you have been lying there for 6 months, now get up and walk”. We know the child is not ready and forcing him will retard his growth.
The same is true with education also. When we force a child to learn something before he is prepared to learn it, it makes the process very difficult and creates an impression on the child that its very hard. He starts to hate it also. Usually this happens with maths. Students forced to learn to count, learn to recite multiplication tables, and really hurting comments from teachers can really make you hate maths. The same is true for all subjects.
So what happened with me was, I was not ready for any of those “Mahakavis” great sanskrit poems. And my malayalam teachers were not very friendly also. (No offence meant). So there is no surprise why I hated malayalam.
But recently I have taken interest in malayalam literature. Just want to know what I missed. 
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