Today is the Teachers’ Day. But for Radha Krishan
‘s birth day we would have forgotten the value of a teacher in the era of
Globalization. An individual has been turned into a commodity and his growth is
measured and his personality is assessed in the interests of market only. We
have missed our goal for the sake of means . At this juncture what Radha Krishan says on Tagore’s views on
education are worth remembering.
Children must not be treated as raw stuff on
which we impose our powerful wills. We turn children into a corrupt version of
our sick selves. Children should
understand and harmonize themselves with nature. The monstrous sin of pride make
us distort their true and natural selves.
The child is unable to act as a Promethean and defy our world of ‘eternal’
truths. We must free the young from the dictatorship of the past and allow him to develop[self-direction. “Coercion
is an evil . It destroys what is natural and sacred in the child, the capacity
for thinking and acting according to what he knows to be true and good.” If a
child’s personality is not respected, he
may turn into a stupid and an anti-social. ” Children are promise of the future
. They must be trained to reveal the treasure that is in the human soul” (127).
