Dear Patil sir thank you for your thought provoking mail. I fully agree with your thoughts. I am taking the liberty of sharing your mail with the science teachers forum, yesterday I had written a mail about 'bookish' knowledge we may try to instil in students through drill method v/s need to help students learn and understand concepts so that they can apply them
your example of environment protection being much more than writing an essay well, reflects my argument quite well. do we want good essay writers who have not internalised the idea/concept? or should we teachers work for conceptual understanding (which may be more difficult than drill methods)? request teacher responses/comments regards Guru regards Guru IT for Change, Bengaluru www.ITforChange.net On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 5:23 PM, K V Patil <[email protected]> wrote: > Guru sir, > This is really pathetic to see how we all together sinking the whole > earth. Does man really need all this drama? Big cities, carbon emissions, > garbage mounds, dirt dust... what not! > The big forest department is created to save forests but we still see our > roadside area is empty without any trees leave alone protecting forests. > How they protect trees god knows. > Regarding saving environment let me share an interesting anecdote. There > is a boy called Satish in my school studying in 9th standard. He is very > brilliant if u give him a task of writing an essay on how to protect > environment, I am sure he scores out of out marks. But the irony is he > doesn't have the same interest in growing trees. > In our school we planned to plant trees. Some 50 trees were brought. They > were distributed among the children. Each boy should adopt a tree and take > care of the tree. Satish was also given a tree among all the students. You > will be surprised to see that Satish who can score more marks on an essay > how to save environment was far behind than the students who were not even > able to read and write in taking care of the adopted tree. He hardly took > care of the plant given to him.But other so called slow learners took a lot > of care. > Then a question arises if we teach our students how to save environment, > they only get prepared to the level where they could by heart some points > and get marks. > An IAS officer who writes a big essay on evils of dowry takes dowry during > marriage. > This kind of innumerable ironies are there. > The problem needs to be tackled only with the help of committed > environmentalists, not by IAS, KAS babus. Sincere discussions, decisions. > strict follow ups are needed. Unlike our forest department people who plant > trees on roadsides, only 5 to 6 percent trees grow. I haven't seen them > watering them and replanting where the trees have died. A big Irony and > waste of tax payers money. > Regards > K V Patil > On Apr 8, 2016 1:54 PM, Gurumurthy K <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear teachers > > Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the > Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. > In this illuminating talk, Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares > his country's mission to put happiness before economic growth and set a > world standard for environmental preservation.- > > watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCLZT5m6jaA > > I think one of the most important tasks for all teachers to teach children > how to live in harmony with their environment ... of course we need to be > role models here as well.... > > how can we do this... one is of course to live simple lives ourselves (as > most teachers already do) .... and to minimise our own consumption of > resources ... here perhaps we also have lot to learn from our ancient ways > of living in harmony with nature, recycling resources in patterns of simple > living... > “The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's > greed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi > <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5810891.Mahatma_Gandhi> > ( > https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/427443-the-world-has-enough-for-everyone-s-need-but-not-enough > ) > > suggestions, comments, feedback welcome.. > > regards, > Guru > > IT for Change, Bengaluru > www.ITforChange.net > > -- > EnglishSTF Link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/englishstf > > -- > > *For doubts on Ubuntu and other public software, visit > http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions > > **Are you using pirated software? 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