Srinagar, Jan. 14 -- The rapid growth of digital technology has transformed classrooms, homes, and human relationships. While screens have made information easily accessible, they have also quietly reshaped values, attention spans, and social behaviour-especially among children. This silent shift presents one of the most serious challenges to education today.

Children now grow up in a world dominated by mobile phones, social media, and instant entertainment. Exposure to screens begins at an early age, often replacing conversation, play, and reflection. As a result, educators increasingly observe impatience, reduced empathy, weak moral judgement, and declining interest in real-world learning. Knowledge may be increasing, but wisdom is fad...