Merit and not Reservation

Dear policymakers,

Now we don't need any reservation in this country. We are fed up of this elite treatment "reservation" because we have understood that by providing reservation to us, our talent has been made to lie deep in its dormant stage only. You gave us the reservation and said that if we just go and appear for the examination and come out of the examination hall by writing our names in the answer copies, we will be awarded the degree of a doctor. Initially, we felt glad and kingly but later we realized that it still was the way to demoralize us and not to allow us to raise our level of intelligence. Infact, you wanted us to remain blunt all our life! What a deep-rooted conspiracy!

Thus, I say that we don't need reservation of any type anymore.

What do you think about us and our intellectual level? We can very well compete with the mass (read) the students of other category who do not have any reservation. We know, they have not been given reservation because they are intelligent classes. Are we not? Stop all this political gimmick and evaluate us at par the general students. We will show you that we can excel them.

Reservation has crippled the state of the affairs in our state. Go anywhere, there is reservation. What for? Are we born with a mentally retarded head or what? No and not at all. What is the need of reservation in studies? It is because of this reservation that we have not been able to produce devoted, intelligent, faithful and committed public servants, bureaucrats or the politicians. All of them came through reservation, only to spoil the future of the coming generation. Test the students or the aspirants to various openings at par. No differentiation. If you are so obssessed with differentiation, differentiate us on the basis of the grades, the score, the percent and the percentile. That would give you the real intelligent people in the system who will put their brains together to make the nation corruption free.

For long we have seen everything bad, now its the time to see something good. If you are blind to this epidemic of reservation, there is no way of preservation for this nation. Only the candidates with real subject knowledge, real content, true practical knowledge gained in the school laboratories, honest attempt of the examination, beautiful grades can be the saviours of our nation.

So, give preference to merit over any type of reservation. Its high time for the government to realize the need of making constitutional ammendments to abolish reservation policy in education and service(s). You may limit the reservation policy in Public Distribution System, Quota releases, Indira Awaas allotment, MNERAGA and such other channels. But education does not differentiate between Eklavya and Arjuna. Without any reservation, both of them proved to be good shooters.

Teachers should be equipped with Laptops

Yeah! Its already late. The teachers of today should now at least be provided with Laptops by the employers. In this age of MNCs and Globalization and Brand value, schools too have started getting the clients as their students and in order to impress the clients (read students) it ihas become very important for the teachers to present the content through latest means of teaching aids.
Thus, we see that the teachers are in dire need of i-pads and smart pads or laptops. When internet has expanded the horizon of knowledge and brought about content-enrichment in the field of various studies, use of tech gadgets as mentioned hitherto is unavoidable. The government may argue that we can give loan to the teachers and they could buy a laptop of their own. But that would sound like an employer asking a teacher about ten-fifteen years back during his appointment to bring a blackboard and chalk-sticks along with him everyday to the school! Yeah! Surely that sounds funny. So this too sounds funny that the employers very generously talk of interst free loans for purchase of laptops by teachers. After all they will recoup the loan amount from the teacher. So what benefit does a teacher get? Nothing.
Teacher is also one of the stake-holders in the system of education who is equipped with knowledge dissemination but the via medium of this dissemination should be provided by the government. Has the government ever done anything beneficial for the teachers except slashing down the pay as and when it desired? The future of the children, which the government talks about the most, should be made safe and secure. Not by giving frrebies but by making each and every child responsible for his acts. If he wins, brings laurels, does some innovation, he should be applauded but if he does something ghastly, he should be tried in child juvenile court by giving exrtra powers to the head of the institutions to initiate such proceedings against him. How mute we stand before the student power sometimes and allow them to grow anti government, anti democratic and unparliamentary. This is not the right foundation we are laying. We are rather digging their graves and they don't understand since they believe on us and the policy makers.
So, it is time their future is really made bright by bringing them to classrooms, a place they actually belong to. They may not loiter out because a teacher's voice is hoarse and he is old and he gives only lectures and he does a lot of talking himself in the class, and he does lot of writing on the blackboard. He may stick to class if his teacher goes well equipped with the videos and clips and games of his subject on his laptop. This will certainly improve the sad face of education in our schools.

Essence of Curriculum for Value Education

1. Value Education should be considered as a central core in the school life and in the life outside.
2. Curriculum should have specific periods to deal with some vital sapects of human values.
3. Some of the aspects can be included in the larger functions of the school like Daily Prayer, Social Service, Camps, Sports Meet, Festival Days, National Days etc.
4. Internalisation of values in thoughts, words and deeds is the goal and not merely the knowledge of it.