[Goanet] Konkani should be the primary school medium - by F. Mousinho de Ataide

[Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão]

Konkani should be the primary school medium - by F. Mousinho de
Ataide

http://oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Konkani-should-be-the-primary-school-medium/46753.html

 

This Fr. Mousihno is accustomed to talking rubbish. Infact an Indian
fanatic. A couple of times he has written on Herald against Goans like
“Hangover of servility” on 29/9/09, etc. The migrant editors entertain such
fanatism by Goans against Goans. He has the company of another Fr. Jaime Couto
who writes Konkani articles in Devnagri script on ‘Grace News’; a monthly
bulletin of Grace Church Margao. 90 percent of Grace Church parishioners will
not know to read Konkani in that script.

Coming back to this article, I would like to ask Fr. Mousinho  if he knows the 
meaning of mother
tongue. What pedagogical science says is to be understood correctly and not to
be distorted. Primary education should be in the language a child speaks at
home since young. Secondly, it is also proved in science that young children
pick up new languages easily as compared to a child grown older.  Fr. Mousinho 
always harped that
Portuguese were dictators; so now in democracy if the people  want primary 
education in English, why
is he invoking God to avert it? Does he have any responsibility toward the
future of our children? Maybe he too like Shashikala want Goans to remain as
dropouts of schools or be a graduate and unable to draft a letter in correct
English.

It is a blatant LIE to state that during the Portuguese era,
Christians did primary education 
in Portuguese. There are schools and convents still existing in Goa
which imparted primary education in English, and Catholics, Hindus as well as
Muslims attended them. Those who did in Portuguese, continued in Lyceum in the
Portuguese language.

The love for Goa’s identity Fr. Mousinho is talking of is a
distorted one.

 




Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.