Aileron Management Consultants

Self-Esteem. What is it and Why should I care ?

Most people's feelings and thoughts about themselves fluctuate
somewhat based on their daily experiences. The grade you get on an exam,
how your friends treat you, ups and downs in a romantic relationship-all can
have a temporary impact on your wellbeing.

Your self-esteem, however, is something more fundamental than the
normal "ups and downs" associated with situational changes. For people with
good basic self-esteem, normal "ups and downs" may lead to temporary
fluctuations in how they feel about themselves, but only to a limited extent.

In contrast, for people with poor basic self-esteem, these "ups and
downs" may make all the difference in the world. People with poor
self-esteem often rely on how they are doing in the present to determine
how they feel about themselves. They need positive external experiences to
counteract the negative feelings and thoughts that constantly plague them.
Even then, the good feeling (from a good grade, etc.) can be temporary.

Healthy self-esteem is based on our ability to assess ourselves
accurately (know ourselves) and still be able to accept and to value
ourselves unconditionally. This means being able to realistically acknowledge
our strengths and limitations (which is part of being human) and at the
same time accepting ourselves as worthy and worthwhile without conditions
or reservations.

Education: The way forward

Only human beings spend so much time in their young age to prepare for the life ahead, and the time which is called schooling and college is keep on increasing, because the society is becoming more complex, just to survive the amount of education needed is also correspondingly increasing, in the name of making life easier, we have constantly making it complex and complicated.

What was thought to be good amount of education few decades back, has now become necessity, so, the amount of time that one need to spend learning to prepare for life is constantly increasing, putting more pressure on the rest of the aspects of life, like marriage, parenting, old age etc.,

Before trying to analyze as to how to reduce the complexity or to increase the efficiency of education so as to find ways to spend less time on education but get the same result, we will first try to define and create the platform to define education as to what it should do to somebody who is going through the same.

Ignoring the fact that we do not know what to do with the child, when we are not present in the house and as everybody, we too go with the crowd and send the child to the place where we hope that the child will spend some quality time with ‘wise’ people around. Let us look for the ultimate purpose; we say that we are preparing him for developing a career! That is to be checked, and then we say we are making a holistic personality!

Quality of education

The statistics of increasing rate of crime, along with the increased rate of literacy and education stands as a testimony to this fact, gone are the days, when we believed that with the opening of schools the prisons were getting closed down. Today, with the increase in the schools the prisons are also increasing.

Normative is what ought to be, and positive is what is, and now we have started witnessing that positive is slowly replacing normative, and normative is being questioned, without proper reasoning base, this is a vicious cycle, the drop in the wisdom leading to lack of proper knowledge and the lack of proper knowledge changing the attitude and perception on education, which in turn dilutes the quality of education, and that in turn brings down the quality of wisdom.

What is Aileron

After having worked in various Educational institutions at almost all the levels for over 2 decades, the Director and the visionary of the company, Mr. S.K. Sundararajan, looked critically at the levels of accomplishments of the students at the social and commercial level, especially after they finished their schooling. It revealed the influence that schooling had on their performance in the society. The influences that the school had on the emerging individual and therefore the society are , Intelligence, Relationship, Pusillanimity, Attitude, Self Esteem and knowledge.

We therefore have come up with ways and means to work on making the schools and colleges as places capable of making leaders and such worthwhile citizens, who will make our country and this world a better place to live. In so doing, we have also kept in mind the cost factors that play a major role in doing something in this field.