Comments on: What do we need — Teachers or Tortures

By: kitchen cabinets

kitchen cabinets — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:22:43 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:20:47 +0000

@ nihar

thank you for your wonderful comment.

By: nihar

nihar — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:03:37 +0000

I agree with you totally that most of the cases of misconduct by the teachers do not get public. But, how long these can be tolerated. I only urge to all the organisations to give a serious look to the selection of teachers, especially teachers in the lower classes. Because, main foundation of learning starts from this young age. It is really horrible if it is not taken care of properly.

By: Sreelatha

Sreelatha — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:32:57 +0000

I can’t write my expressions in words here after reading this article. I was a student in such a school as that lady reporter stated here. Often I too think of smouldering that very institution in a fire of rage, including my heartless teachers, whom we cannot adore as gurus. I am 30 plus, still that horrible memories haunt me so that I never use jasmine garlands on my head as the smell of jasmine always make me remember my nightmares of that school days. Now for the last 6 years, I have been working as a teacher and adored by my students. It is only because of the knowledge the realization I received from my school that how would a bad teacher be. I deliberately avoid being like my teachers and extend my support to my students regardless of the cast or parent’s purse or chair as the author said.

By: syamlal sasidharan

syamlal sasidharan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:15:03 +0000

@ Author. i read d article ‘teachers or tortures’–i was surprised because d first time i m seeing an article from u—i ‘ve joined scrollindia only be4 1 or 2 months.. its first from u.The article was very nice since it clearly & beautifully explained d subject.With ur own examples (from bhavans schools) u showed d merits of teachers–It clearly shows what is going wrong with d teaching system.

By: Manjunath

Manjunath — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:25:13 +0000

Think you are on the side of students, even though it has some teacher’s versions also. When thinking over children, it seems to be like imprisonment once get into the school. That dwarfs a lot of talents and even physical growth. Today there is a report in Hindu that teaches will get 2 or 3 years’ imprisonment if caught by the law. So infact teachers who lost the ‘good old days’.

By: Raman Kalyanasyndaram

Raman Kalyanasyndaram — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:47:26 +0000

@ Tadgata Choudhury

Thank you so much for your prompt and solid comment. I apparently agree with what you told about the ‘repulsive’ nature of certain segment of students. Genetic disorder seemed to be a very low negligible percentage and another few with the ambience in which they have been born and brought up. But a good teacher can mould a good person out of the scrap. We have a lot of such examples at hand. A bad teacher ruins the life. Examples for the latter are ample. Then we never compared with gurukul system to the present one — we do possess such culture as the basis of our education. at that time also we had teachers who punished their students severely
What do we need is a segment of teachers in the KG level where the children under the age of 10 can be molded as per the nature of the teachers. That s why I have quoted the examples of two KG teachers who moulded two great artists in Kerala..

By: Tadgata

Tadgata — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:35:24 +0000

@ author
It’s true that corporal punishment is bad for a child to bear at such a young age but at the same time is it very difficult to control the gen next students be it inside the classroom or inside the school campus. Mostly the students who are coming from well affluent families and studying in the posh schools have little or no respect for the teachers. These students resort to smoking, **bursting crackers inside the class ( the story of la martiniere for boys calcutta) or abusing the teachers.
Can you tell me how will you react to such behaviors from students.
The la martiniere suffers from this prob and also many other schools.
Remember the DPS scandal?
It’s Difficult to train these guys without corporal punishment, and please do not compare the gurukul system with the present day education system as the students, teachers and also the lifestyle has changed in leaps and bounds.
Its easy to pass on the blame to the teachers than to the students who dare to carry out these anti social and criminal activities inside the school.

** Bursting of any crackers above 90db is illegal in Calcutta and attracts legal punishment.