There are many more laws in USA, Wow! this time it is an imitation on children-related laws. Kudos! to the National Commission on Child Rights Protection. I just wonder why the responsible members could not made an indepth study? This is ills-plaguing and I am sure none of the members of the commission are chosen from the teaching community again this time. How would it sound if I say Indian soldiers sent to war without weapons?
I am a teacher for past 10 years. I have an oceanic depth of love for my students and so are the millions of Indian teachers. Those teachers who award corporal punishments certainly need such laws. But there are so many other clauses restricting and curbing his academic freedom. The laws treats teachers as if they are criminals probably they could do nothing with the responsible teacher training bodies. It speaks ill of the urgency in which the national commission has been constituted, operated and soon came out with expected pre-mature conclusions keeping in view the isolated cases.
Children are, I believe the most magnificient creation of God. Today, they look at teachers as their equals or mere facilitators. Children by nature being so joyous and active particularly when they are with their friends resort to innumerable ways of childish and mischievous behaviour. Sometimes, it is dangerous for their own safety. They no more listen to these law-threatened teachers due to their selfless and pure nature. Had there been something to revamp the so-called teacher-training bodies which claim to impart so much in terms of student-psychology that B Ed is declared to be an essential qualification without which an incumbent is summarily rejected to be a teacher. Is the entire spectrum of teacher training not responsible for such teachers who behave wild with the divine children?
In the intellectual transaction of teaching and learning, the teachers and learners have a very far different relationship than how narrowly it is interpretated and intruded by the national commission.
Millions of teachers' speechlessness is sympathesized.
(it is a comment given by me on the issue raised at www.igovernment.in published on 13 dec 07)

The government is planning to constitute a National Commission for Enforcing Right to Education. Prominently-Commission, right and education perturbs me and probably to many of you. There have been so many commissions in India on different subjects since her independence that the first impression it creates on its people is that it would take not less than a period of 2 years to submit its reports and recommendations and by the time there are always as have been in the past, significant changes in the conditions of life affecting the proposal validity.

Secondly, the herculean task of submission of reports and recommendations are often tarnished to bits and pieces while they are implemented through the autocratic terminology of approval and disapproval. It sounds as if the stupendous task was handed over to some unauthorised or incompetent people.

When the government talks about rights and its awareness it just sounds that the government intent to ignore the fact that the existing vast population of this magnificent peninsula are not well aware of their fundamental rights! With every second name of an Indian in the world's Illiteracy chart, it is a mockery to even talk about awareness of child rights to children when about 63% of the people of this independent India are not aware of their fundamental rights owing to their illiteracy.

Oh! when I look at the status of education it is all the more disturbing. Education is the most powerful instrument for an all round progress of the nation.... are some of the words excerpted out of one of the national commissions on education in India.

The government views so much of resource-crisis that though the most developed countries in the world encashes it for their developments, the governments of India had always vested their interest in appointing National commission on education with either a scientist heading it or else a person of mass popularity. Not more than 10% of the teacher's community fully involves itself due to political restrictions and those genuine resources-India's truly devoted educational unsung giants' speechlessness echoes ineffectively.

The government, governance and the governed are still a long way to go in redefining the rudimentary ideas and plans of planning.

However, it may be naive to presume that there has been no development or there are less number of people with wisdom and knowledge. There are there shall be. The government can certainly march with its plan for this commission but with a practical vision of its impact.
(this is a comment given by me on the Government of India's proposal published in the www.igovernment published on 27 March 08)

the reflections of learning

when education is imparted it must reflect. So has it in the past. I wonder as to how learning was far more effective than what it is today. But then I have clear indications. It is because the teachers were mostly embodiments of knowledge and apostles of wisdom. The NCERT a responsible custodian of Indian school education among some, shed off its responsibility and paved the way for constituting a national body to look after the crippled and diseased teacher training plethora. Thus appeared the giant of teacher training national police man. After making its gigantic appearance it probably intended to notify itself to the schools in India and so it issued orders that there shall be no teacher training course offered through correspondence and thus disbanded all universities from running the courses in correspondence mode. The universities accepted the orders as if they were only the agents of the course and that NCTE can do what ever it feels regarding teacher training even if it alleges the universities that they had run the course illegally or inefficiently or they were incompetent. Thus the Bed course offered for decades by universities in correspondence mode having produced many trained teachers and naturally they are predominantly the working teachers in schools today....probably NCTE views them as illegal certificate holders.
Then comes the more interesting fact that while no university in the country was allowed to offer Bed by correspondence there was one university which was granted the permission to run it as desired, that is the IGNOU. Of course, NCTE has kept ready a detailed justification for granting monopoly to IGNOU! It reminds me of the East India Company and its settlements in India.
More about course and curriculum--hold on please