When will They Learn? Virat and Dhawan Have a Message for Parents

Cricketers Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan share disturbing video of a child being incessantly scolded while studying

Scolding children or even inflicting corporal punishment on them, especially as a pedagogical tool, is the norm in India, even though it has been argued, time and again, that this needs to be changed as each child has their own learning pace.

The video of a young girl being bullied by a woman during a study session, that Indian cricketers Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan posted on their respective Instagram accounts this morning, hardly comes as a surprise, but makes for an uncomfortable watch.

In the roughly one-minute long clip, the girl is shown revising mathematics under the supervision of (presumably) her mother, and under extreme duress, is made to recite numbers up to 5. Failure is not acceptable, and the teary-eyed child is barely able to speak, such is her terror.

The fact that the pain and anger of the child is ignored and ones own ego to make the child learn is so massive that compassion has totally gone out of the window. This is shocking and saddening to another dimension. A child can never learn if intimidated. This is hurtful.

A post shared by Virat Kohli (@virat.kohli) on Aug 18, 2017 at 10:08pm PDT