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From: Prabhakar Waghodekar
Date:03/09/2016 02:05 (GMT+05:30)
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] [Weekend Big Discussion-I] Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard
It is widely accepted that a child's brain develops almost fully by the age of six or so that leads one throughout the life, A Sansakar called Upanayan, Mounj, or Vratbandha is carried out between 6-8 years. After this Sanskara, the child is sent to Gurukul, mostly located away from city area, near or in jungle. Elementary education comprises of mainly play group, Jr./Sr. Nursery (KG) and 1-4 standards.
Man is the Nature's creation and like other living organisms he possesses the capacity to grow naturally using Nature's resources. Animals or birds have no schools, but the off-springs are strong enough to stand up on their own feet immediately after birth that a baby cannot do. Living organisms have good 5 senses and through these they are trained y mostly by mothers for a couple of years. Man is endowed with talent, thinking power that helps develop man's brain by the age of 6, Man has devised man-made education/training systems that are mostly artificial and if the elementary education process is not properly executed, man can hardly explore senses gifts. Senses are tuned to the Nature.
How to develop the system, through a single teacher or many? There are a few considerations- class size say 10 to 20, a team of, say, four teachers: one for play/games, one for story telling, one for motherly like and one for taking students near to the nature, birds, pets, trees, hills, streams and so on. Binding the students in books, class teaching, project work, home work, interviews for admission, etc., can contribute a little to the natural growth of students. This is the age when students need to be free to be one with the Nature. For instance, keep aside the projects needing costly artificial materials. Instead use local resources. I remember that from local soils I used to make bullocks, fruits, Ganapati, Durga, etc., at no cost and I used to be one with my teachers who gave us many lessons effortlessly. I remember when I was in Pune during 1993-2001, though I was the Principal of an Engineering College, I used to mix up with our SSPMS Residential Elementary school students from Jr. Nursery to IV Std.The age group was 2.5 to 9 years, I introduced the concept that students up to the 4th std need to be free, no home work, no lessons, let them play and enjoy the beautiful garden specially built for them. The out-turn was excellent.
This is what I aspire for elementary education.
From: "Prof. Bholanath Dutta"
Sent: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 10:16:24
To: join_mtc
Subject: [MTC Global] [Weekend Big Discussion-I] Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard
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