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General Forum: Education | | Telugu as compulsory subject in private schools. Do you support? | |
| First of all how many schools are recognized? If not why ?
Posted by: Mr. M Kumar N At: 5, Jan 2006 6:58:19 PM IST
Mr. PbG,
This is one thing I concur with you. The base is getting lost at the home itself.
The basic foundation itself is slippery.
Alienation of mother tongue is unfortunately starting at the home itself in many cases.
Posted by: SATYA RAMA PRASAD KALLURI At: 12, Aug 2005 11:26:11 AM IST
PbG too has agreed that 'Telugu is in-bulit naturally'. Nice.
My grouse is that parents are trying to 'remove it by artificial methods' due to the fear that they may get lost in this 'race of catching up with others' as far as this 'civilisation' and 'sophistication' are concerned.
A person, while beginning his studies, should necessarily know his own background. Mother tongue is one of the elements of this background.
If the child 'escapes' this requirement at the age of 3 (thanks to many "Saint/Paint" convents), he will obviously travel away from his mother tongue & own culture. It may help his career and consequently become a good 'earning machine'. But what he has lost will be known to him only at a stage where he cannot learn that easily.
Even the parents are not finding enough time to teach some rudiments of mother tongue and some beneficial traditional values to their children. With such a background, the role played by these convents which are '(only) trying to put the child in a wonderful and alien heaven' is crucial. If allowed to proceed in the present pace, their contribution will be negative.
So there must be a good 'mix' of subjects at the infant stage itself.
I do not mean that English is to be banned.
That again will be meaningless & obscurantist.
Observe any successful person. In most of the cases, he is equally comfortable with his mother tongue too. Afterall, learning one's own tongue is part of an integrated development.
Posted by: SATYA RAMA PRASAD KALLURI At: 8, Aug 2005 5:28:34 PM IST
Definitely, I support this cause.
Posted by: Mr. Vachaspathi V At: 6, Aug 2005 6:14:42 PM IST
Nobody can express better than expressing in their own mother tongue. Suppose, we have to write a letter to say our grandparents, are parents in some case, where they are only literate in telugu. It is a classic case for one to learn to telugu. I understand this might be avoided in days to come with hardly people having time to write letters, while telphones , emails have taken over the means of communication. If you r from AP & can atleast read, write, then u r better off than others, else u stand to be on par with other people of other states though u r from AP.
Posted by: DoBoy At: 6, Aug 2005 2:14:36 PM IST
@cc ,
Developement of a country doesnt rest on learning a foreign language ,it would be hypothetical to think so .
Agriculture will be the mainstay for a lot more generations to come ,the only point of difference would be the way one would look at a farmer . Most probably a farmer will be using satellite to find out wether he needs to irrigate his field or not ,he will be advance no doubt ,but ,the point that I wish to make is that knowing language dosent really mean developement . For example ,today you can see farmers using cell phones ,petty traders who have never been to school ,they also use them ,most of the farmers have DVD players ,eventhough there has been a lot of drought in the past few years ,technologically speaking the rural areas are more sophisticated in a lot more ways .
I am sorry ,I have to make a point out of the topic ,but it is imperative that I make it here . regarding the investments in BPO or the software industries ,do you think that is a welcome investment ?It is just mechanical work ,and if you look at many factors like power ,infrastructure ,India is short of all these ,but then why do we have BPO and transcription units coming up ,its just because labour is considered cheap and Indian professionals are considered cheap ,antre thappa ,feeling good abt stupid foreign investments is bad .
"They also want their kids to be better off than them. If that means that they have to work outside of the state ( or even country ) then the kids need to develop a mode of communication ( to showcase their skills, after all what good is a brilliant mind, if you cannot convey it's radiance ? ) that would best aid them in their progress"
I agree to this ,but do u think any parent makes a scietific study of his ward ,his/her preferences ,strengths ,weaknessses and guides a child accordingly ?the ans would be no ,most of the parents just impose and what can be realised out of imposing will necessarily not produce the best of brains ,infact ,the performace would be lack lusture . Most of the parents are wrongly informed and they just keep their children under undue stress and pressure .
Germany is known for automobiles ,China for its rapid industralisation ,when ever i speak to my chinese supplier or my german buyer ,I forget my english ,so pathetic is their knowledge on english ,yet ,they can perform wonders , their thoughts of management are far better than the americans ,particularly the grasping power of the chinese to understand foreign markets ,not only the english speaking markets ,but varied markets like italy ,greece ,hungary ,netherlands ,switzerland etc .
Posted by: Mr. Pit and the Pendulum At: 5, Aug 2005 12:42:13 PM IST
Attitude to compete with wisdom is the key for success. That is what China has been achieving successfully.
In the name of catching 'something else' in this circus, I fear, we are tending to be off our ground first!
'nEla viDichina saamu' manalO chaalaa maMdi chEstunnadi.
Posted by: SATYA RAMA PRASAD KALLURI At: 5, Aug 2005 12:36:35 PM IST
Telugu must be made compulsory only to the natives. Rest of the students must be given an option to learn their own language. And this must be followed at national level.
I agree with this .
shaloo
Even in Maharashtra Marathi is compulsory in all the school upto 8th standard.Those who come from outside has lower marathi .But learning marathis is compulsory here.
Posted by: Mrs. shaloo At: 5, Aug 2005 12:35:33 PM IST
"This discipline would be instilled in the future generations if these kids truly understand the advantages of English, in the global perspective."
does disciple stem from a language?
Words are added to the english dictionary ,to make it global ,ex-indian words are also added ,but the point is how many of them will be immigrating to english speaking countries ?say ,3 percent of the population of AP ?So why do schools not have to teach telugu ?
Posted by: Mr. Pit and the Pendulum At: 4, Aug 2005 10:06:14 PM IST
I dont understand.Learning or speaking language and keeping data in mind (of addresses) is not one and the same.How come it is related?
Posted by: Mrs. shaloo At: 4, Aug 2005 8:16:14 PM IST
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