Principle of Reward and Blame.

Praise is a necessity for all human beings and to a few of the animals. It is non existent in plants and animals. It is a mental necessity of the higher living creatures. It is very much related to school education .The school has always been one of the major spheres of activity for psychology. Today school education has expanded a lot and the complexion of the students, teachers, and the management is changing in profile.

          Praise and blame both the terms have equal importance in life. Where there is no praise there is laziness .There is a hunger for praise in every human heart. There is a horror of blame. This quality of human nature is universal and it is vastly more powerful then we have ever cared to admit.  

          We instinctively feel if people approve of me, I will safe. As we commonly say self preservation is the first law of nature .The fact is that praise is necessary as food, if we get it in moderation and balanced, when necessary. Praise is sunshine that ripens us. Also when it is to intense it rots us .If one goes in history, learning has been the anchor point in the development of modern psychology. The experiments of Thorndike gave us better understanding of the learning process, in spite of contracting viewpoints. Thorndike, in formulating his laws of learning was mainly concerned with the acquisition of a skill in the process of rewards.

          Praise and blame are the heaven and hell of all religions. All religions give their God what they value most that is praise .Hymns and prayers are the literatures of praise .Every persons has a right to self respect .He has a right to be praised when he deserves it and he needs blame, when he deserves of such in the  justice that the mass of man wish for .Practically, it comes to this that we should make both praise blame definite .No man is all good or bad ,if you point out his merits as well as his defects. Both are indispensable to human development.

                                                                                      Dillip Kumar Badatya

                                                                                                PGT(Hindi)

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