Educator! Educate thyself!

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).