EDUCATION - The most powerful weapon

Hi all,

I am back with my next post.

Now my field of interest is "Education". "Education is most powerful weapon". When I started thinking what to write on the topic of education, first thing that came to my mind was the ideal educational qualities of students, lecturers  and educational institutions.

In olden days, education was not a dime a dozen for all. Education was available for only a class of people(upper classes). For most of the people it was hit below the belt. In those days all were devil's advocate. After some days there was a turn over a new leaf and Education was made available for everyone.

when I was studying in high school I was inspired by a teacher his name is sampath kumar sir. He taught us physics, mathematics. He was also the head master. The interest he has in astrophysics and the way he thought us, inspired us to read 100's of books related to astrophysics. We were able to guide the sky routes according to star positions. Next  inspirational teacher when I was in pre-university, his name poorna bodhachar sir. May a coincidence he also taught us physics. What I learnt from him was enormous. In 2 years of my PU he was not on leave for even a single day, in contrast he was taking classes when any lecturer was absent. There is one story that not all of my friends or classmates don't know, when I actually approached him to pay tuition fees as I was attending his physics tuition classes, he was not ready to accept my fees. Next reply I got from him was " I don't want any fees from you. But I want you to score 98/99 or 100 in 2nd PU final exam and just want you to give me the photo copy of that paper". The motivation he gave me and the amount of confidence he gave me made me to score 99 in final exams and I given him the photo copy of my  final paper. This incident not only happened with me, He just selects 3 r 4 students an year with caliber to score more in final PU exams ,gives them free tuition classes and they have to give their final answer paper's photo copy for him. Nowadays he is teaching so many students for free. In same time there was another lecturer in our college named thippeswamy sir, who taught us mathematics. The quality that inspired was his desire to teach in spite of his age. He was more than 70 and was still teaching. We never felt bored in his classes. We learnt from him that there is no old age if we are young enough to accept that we can do the work.

After PU I can't find any of the lecturers as inspiring up to now.

Now I will conclude the ideal qualities of education

• Education must brighten path of the students.

• Education must lead the students to gain wisdom.

• Education must inspire students to invent and do research, not just learn the syllabus.

Now the ideal qualities of teacher

• Teacher must be an inspiration for students. As it will bring up the good qualities in students most of time.

• Teacher must provide motivation for students as in my case poorna bodhachar sir.

• He must inspire them to read books like sampath kumar sir. Not make the students forcefully to read books.

• There is no age limit for teaching until you have grip on the subject you are teaching like thippeswamy sir.

Ideal qualities of students

• Students must find some inspiration from the teachers.

• Students must be in desire to learn at any instant of time.

• Students will be defined by his eagerness to learn.

These are all ideal qualities of the education related entities. What are the practical qualities????

If you are eager to know wait for my next post.