Thursday, December 24, 2015
Mahakavai Bharathi's opinions on English Education
Its been a long felt thought that English medium is destroying the creativity of people whose mother tongue is not English. No other country will want to discuss this other than here in India. Answer why we even want to debate is seen in Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts on it...
We, the English educated people alone are unable to assess the great loss that this factor has caused.
Among the many evils of foreign rule, this blighting imposition of a foreign medium upon the youth of the country will be counted by history as one of the greatest. It has sapped the energy of the nation, it has estranged them for the masses, it has made education unnecessarily expensive. If this process is still persisted in, it bids fair to rob the nation of its soul. The sooner, therefore educated India shakes itself free from the hypnotic spell of the foreign medium, the better it would be for them and the people.
Having mentioned Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts...I came across what Mahakavi Bharathiyar wrote on the same topic...here I attach below.
Its more than 100 years and our Tamil Nadu Govt seems to celebrate ENGLISH medium of instruction with the help of British Council now and also the earlier Govt. allows in Anna Centenary Library books from OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS to EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN. The children section in first floor is almost entirely of OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, only a handful of Tamil books in Children section.
Read more of What Mahakavi wrote 100 yrs...When are we going to listen to his thoughts? and Take action to better the country?
Seriously hope someone will bring a change, who talks much about Mahakavi Bharathiyar should understand what he thought of this Foreign Medium of Instruction and English Education in schools...Thanks to Kalasuvadu publishing on Mahakavi Bharathiyar's Vijaya writings.
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