Our country celebrates "Teacher's Day" on 5 September every year to honor the teachers-fraternity. Today, teachers and schools are hell-bent on minting money. I think this is not the right moment to discuss about them. Here, I would like to
dedicate the blog to all my friends who are in the mission of education since
beginning.
At the same time I also would like to thank to the people who have
got into this mission by chance and by mistake.
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| Anil Pradhan with his students |
Thus, I dare to categorize
teachers by three categories i.e.
Teachers
by chance,
by choice and
by mistake;
With the help of this write-up, I
would like to draw your attention towards some of the teachers of our country who
have really proved to be Good-Samaritan and left their mark in the field of
education.
Let’s take a look at
their contribution as a teacher/mentor
Anil Pradhan from
Udisa,
Anil Pradhan with His students
Real life Ranchoo from
the movie titled “three Idiots”
He is a boon for the
people of 42 Mouza imparting education to the local at village Baral in Odisa.
He teaches science, technology and other innovation to the kids for free. He
set up the International Public School for Rural Innovation, (IPSRI) the school
with difference.
Among the plethora of
innovation,
- He was part of a team of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology that construct satellite to monitor Heera Khand Dam.
- He was also joining a team of robot design that climb the electric poles to fix basic problems. It was wrought with danger for human.
This contribution
brought him Youth Icon Award in 2018.
When he was asked about
his IPSRI he said that he had not wanted kids in village to move out of it to
get quality education that he could bring in the village itself.
The Objective of this
school is to develop innovative students who will be skilled enough to solve
real-life problems through science, technology and innovation. He said-“Our
lessons are more practical. The teaching methodology is quite innovative which
makes students learn complex subjects in a simpler and creative way.” Later he added
– “Every child is different and capable of doing something different. We have a
set of experiments which help a child understand his capabilities in a
particular field” Don’t you think he is Ranchoo of Odisa. He teaches in different way exactly the way Ranchoo in Three Idiots does.
Please Read this: Teaching Life Skills to the Children.
Please Read this: Teaching Life Skills to the Children.
Another one is called
Geeta Darmrajan.
Geeta Darmranjan
Founder of Katha believes that the good books and ideas can bring about a great change in the
minds of kids. It has more than one lakh volunteers across the country. KathaSansthan came into being in 1988 and Geeta bagged Padmshree in 2012 for her outstanding contribution in
the field of education. More than 48 books and 450 articles have been published
in all leading journals talking about skills and talents of the children. She believes every child is born with special
quality after one hones them they do wonder.
Kiran Bir Sethi:
She strongly believes the
unconventional method of teaching. She noticed that his teachers rigidly stuck
to the text-books and punished students
who deviated from the prescribed lesson
plan. Realizing that most of India’s hundreds of millions of schoolchildren
were being educated in the same inflexible manner, she founded The RiversideSchool in Ahmedabad in 2001, aiming to provide an alternative model which
focuses on “quality of learning,” “student well being,” and “empathy in
education.” These may seem like obvious ideals to some, but in certain parts of
India it was a game-changing move.
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| Kiran Bir Sethi |
In 2009, Sethi expanded
on the principles practiced at Riverside to found the “Design for Change”
movement with the goal of getting children to drive change in their communities
by unleashing what she calls their “I can superpower.” The movement to encourage
youth volunteerism, which has since spread to more than 300,000 children in 35
countries, is based on a simple but revolutionary model: It asks kids to feel
any problem that bothers them, imagine a way to make it better, do an act of
change, and share their story of change with the world.
Beula Gabriel
77 years old teacher
helped to realized dreams of underprivileged children.
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| Beula Gabriel |
She established St.
Joseph’s in Hyderabad. However, her family had previously founded St. Andrew’s
School in 1985 which she opted out for a reason. She later disclosed it which
goes as follows;
She did not want to run
schools like the many we see today that charge hefty amount as fee which is
affordable only the rich and well-to-do families. She started teaching students
of underprivileged section. Most of her students of these families are now
doctors, engineers, scientists and working with Multi Nationals Companies. She
did not charge anything for that.
Anand Super 30
Anand Kumar was born in
1973 in Patna popularly known as super 30. He picked up group of 30 poor students
who could not afford to crack IIT-JEE because of poverty and social background.
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| Aanand Kumar |
He is known for coaching
underprivileged students for IIT –JEE under a programme called super 30 in 2002
in the capital city of Bihar. You may
have seen movie titled “Super 30” directed by Vishal Bhal which showcases his
struggle of life and creation of super 30.
422 students out of 480
cracked the most prestigious exams IIT-JEE by 2018. They all from poor back
ground and they got educated free of cost by Anand Kumar with voluntarily
supports of a few. Discovery Channel made a documentary on him.
On the preceding eve of
Teachers Day celebration I owe thanks to all the astute and innovative teachers
across the county. Please make it point to mention names of diligent teachers
of your locality or school. Don’t forget to mention their contribution please.
I would be honored to
write a few lines about them as my tribute.
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