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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. 1. It is common knowledge that school children are under great pressure to perform well in all fields, study ten subjects, play games and develop an impressive image. How do they manage? The skills, techniques and principles which they pick up while still young help them cope.  
2. Two of twentieth century’s finest minds have lamented that schools are not teaching the basics of personal excellence or the science of success. Edward De Bono, “Almost all of what a child learns at school after the age often is totally irrelevant to his need in later life. Most schools do not teach thinking at all.” The serious thesis of this article is that management must be taught as a school subject. The weightiest argument is that children are managers.  
3. Many of children are called upon to play directly three of the interpersonal roles: “Figurehead”, “Leader” and “Liaison Officer”. They do this while assisting teachers as monitors or class representatives or group leaders during educational tours and field work; while captaining teams on playgrounds; and while leading teams in quiz, debating and other competitions. Many more play these roles as surrogates.  
4. The decision role of “Entrepreneur” and “Resource Allocator” may only occasionally be assigned to children. However, it is worth noting that, according to a recent survey in Delhi, a monthly allocation of up to Rs. 1000 is available as pocket money to school children. Therefore, school children too need to have control over money and to develop a sense of budget. If we add to these financial resources, the resources of time, information and intellect available to children, the first two decision roles are not irrelevant to them.  
5. Children play the other two decision roles: “Disturbance Handler” and “Negotiator” more often. True, the international roles of “monitor”, “disseminator” and “spokesman” are not so frequently and formally engaged in by children as by CEOs, MDs, Vice Presidents and other adult managers.  
6. If you cannot see children as managers, they are managers in the making: Many of the management habits (e. g., using a to-do list), management skills (e. g. Sensitive listening), management attitudes and values are formed early in life. Personality theorists believe that it is extremely difficult to change personality traits, styles of thinking and habits of behavior once they are formed.  
7. As in language learning, where basic aspects of language like pronunciation and rhythm are extremely resistant to learning after puberty, good management habits, attitudes and values are difficult to acquire in adulthood. In the fifties, even in the educationally advanced countries such as the U. S, Algebra was thought to be too abstract to be taught even in senior schools. Now it is taught from upper primary classes onwards in both educationally progressive and developing countries. Computer skills, lateral thinking and swimming, often felt to be forbidden by adults are easily learnt by children. In fact, both research evidence and specialists’ beliefs strongly support the view that children’s ability to learn skills like swimming and creative thinking is much more developed than adults. Equally important, complex organisms (a) learn what is necessary or pleasurable and (b) adapt themselves in ways that will serve their needs and interests with amazing enthusiasm, ease and effectiveness.  

Answer the following questions briefly:
i. How the interpersonal roles are performed by students? (Any One)

ii. What are the attributes of good management?

iii. Why is it difficult to acquire good management habits in adulthood?

iv. Which roles according to the author are occasionally performed by the students?

v. Which word in the above passage means the same as-Regretted’ (Para 2)

vi. Which word in the above passage means the same as-‘officially’ (Para 5).

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