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Pitiable plight

Pitiable plight

On the occasion of Teachers' Day, a TV channel interviewed some students studying graduation course in mass communications and commerce in a women's college to gauge what they knew about Teachers' Day and its significance.

The answers given by some convent-educated girls were shocking.

They said that the birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was celebrated as Teachers' Day and some other students said that Patel was professor in a university and that's why Teachers' Day was celebrated!

It is a tragedy how some hi-tech institutions, schools and colleges are ill-equipped about knowledge of national leaders.

As parents are the first `gurus' or teachers of a child they should mould the child in a proper way, which could be taken up later in the school curriculum by teachers.

J.P. Reddy,

Nalgonda

Crisis of values

Governor Rameshwar Thakur has said that education must aim at providing future leadership.

In the present circumstances, we are passing through a period, which is beset with a crisis of values.

The confusion over values in society is very much mirrored in education. Modern Indian education suffers from a lack of discipline.

Respect for teachers is slowly and steadily disappearing, love for one's pupils is seen as an exception and not as a rule. The morale of both the teachers and the taught is coming down.

Struggle for existence has become the order of the day. Money has become the dominating value in modern life. The teacher, according to the Indian tradition, enjoys the most important position in the field of education. is or her role counts greatly in building up the character of the pupils.

Modern education cannot be said to be ideal unless it helps the individual to develop a strong character and to discriminate the right from the wrong and good from bad.

M. Satyanarayana Rao,

Hanamkonda

Stay away from

these `guides'

Today's children are addicts of `guides.' These guides are in more demand than even textbooks. It is all due to the exercise-oriented exams and homework. Children, instead of sharpening their brains, opt for an easy means of reproducing the chunks from guides. The teacher can play a pivotal role in shaping the career of a child. He/she should create new exercises based on textbooks. This not only helps the child to think but also think creatively.

M. Farida Begum

Kurnool

Nalgonda

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