Guest guest Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Note: forwarded message attached.watan se chithi aai hai. Bring your gang together - do your thing. Start your group. Dear Mr Savarkar, I hv been reading ur mails since long and i wd like to appreciate ur efforts for inspiring changes in various quarters as you suggest...........I hope u wd also find a medium which not only reaches 60,000 odd people of Dil se Desi but the community at large..... Keep it up! Abhi.... On 11/28/07, Sriram Savarkar <sriram.savarkargmail> wrote: Your India, Our India To the powers that be: In your India, after 60 years of Independence, your questionnaire consists of: Is there a blackboard in every class? It would be more relevant to know if you have appointed anyone who knows enough to use one? You ask how many benches and desks there are in our classrooms. Do you ask whether the number of benches and desks are proportionate to the number of children in the class? Do you ask whether those children feel like occupying those benches? You ask how many cupboards and 'trunkpetties' are there. Do you ever ask what is being stored in them? Or, how much of what is in them are used in class everyday? And then the million dollar question: are there toilets in your school? And how many? In your India, how many homes have toilets? What are you doing about it? And do you ever ask in the questionnaire whether the children know how to use the toilets? Having something does not guarantee its correct use. You should know that. In your India, the questionnaire from the department of education asks: do you have electrical connection in your school? The questionnaire from the SSA [sarva Shiksha Abhyan] asks: how many of your classrooms have A/c? Who is being funny here? In your India, personnel from the department of education give long speeches to children on values. They do not leave the school premises without their pockets filled. In your India you have statistics on how many girls and boys go to school. Do you have statistics on how many teachers are regular? In your India you have a rule that a primary school should function for 220 days and the secondary for 200 days. Teachers are allowed casual leave, sick leave, maternity leave, privilege leave other than vacations. How do you then account and say that the school 'functioned' for 220 days? Perhaps you are stating that it makes no difference whether a teacher goes to school or not? You have no questionnaire on what, beyond the text, is being taught; you have no questionnaire on how it is being taught; how many books are there in the library? How many are being read; by teachers, by children? How many are non fiction? How many are teachers' reference materials? For how many topics are there teaching aids? How many children are readers... you have no questionnaire that pertains to education. All your questions cannot even tell you literacy rates. You have lost the capacity to tell the difference between illiteracy, literacy and education. Your schools have no blackboards, desks, benches, toilets, books, maps, equipment or teachers. And you come to check whether we do? You must forfeit the right to be a governing body or a body that awards certification. Education cess appears to dissolve into a cess-pool. God save us, we are informed that primary education objectives have been achieved. In our India, the department of education acts as a resource centre for: Teachers of teachers so that they can create teaching materials that can be used in class. Teachers of teachers would have at least 5 years' experience in teaching children. At least three different lesson plans for each topic so that teachers may choose what suits their class best. The lesson plan would have three levels, the basic, the intermediary and the final so that every child learns leisurely and yet thoroughly. In our India, every teacher clocks in to work on time and regularly with the confidence that they do matter in the scheme of things. In our India, every child is taught keeping in mind Rabindranath Tagore's 'Where the mind is without fear'. In our India, every child is taught with the full understanding of the words " To love to learn is the most precious gift you can make to a child; to learn always and everywhere. " In our India children are taught with the knowledge that every child comes with some challenges and some gifts; the gifts can be used to overcome the challenges. In our India every child is made to feel he/she CAN. Your India asks children to show their caste certificate to 'ensure an education'. Our India educates the children so as to obviate such a certificate. Your India furnishes a caste certificate to 'ensure a job'. Our India offers an education that ensures them a place (up there) wherever they choose to go. Your India keeps a statistical record of the religion and caste of teachers so that that can become your talking point during your various campaigns. Our India appoints teachers. Our India had teachers who were devout and devoted to learning. They were looked up to and revered. Education was their life work. Your India has created an ambience where a child is told, " What? You want to be a teacher? Don't be stupid. " It is time you gave over. It is time for educational institutions to be privatised or be supported by industrial houses. It is time for education to become once more the realm of educators and teachers. Bureaucrats and policy makers, who have seen neither children nor teachers, move over. Your time is up. Yes. Your time is up. Schools unite. You have nothing to lose except standing for hours, hat in hand, at the tashildar's, at the sanitation department, at the fire department, for stability certificate, building licence… filling bottomless pockets… Let us unite and say that until every government school has the amenities of Ambani's school they have no business to ask if we have 'trunkpetties' or toilets or benches. Let us question a very basic premise: Who must 'recognise' whom? Desined by : Manisha Kaulapure Sriram SavarkarHinduism is more a way of life than a method of worship.Dharmo Rakshati RakshithahaIf you protect Dharma, Dharma will in turn protect you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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