>From Sowmya: Hi All
Hmm... I had this dream long back...but realising my limitations, side-tracked it. Now that this discussion came up, those thoughts are back :) Here are my thoughts. Financial Sustenance: We should run an ideal Children-Old Age Home which sustains on its own and does not depend on outside contributions except for the initial two years. Whatever we spent on the initial two years we should be able to get back in the next three years. This is something like we are lending the money and taking it back without any interest. - Thats an excellent dream. Yes, it should sustain on its own...but, a group should always be there in the background, incase theres some emergency. Education: Enough with the current system of education. We should think of progressive system which makes them confident human beings and their courage and hope of life shouldn't depend on the money they earn. - Hmm... but, how many will be ready? I would rather say, continue with the way all others in the state are getting educated and just add to it. Say change the teaching approach.... or the atmosphere etc. Let the kids not be guinea pigs for all our experiments. I know I may be sounding very discouraging...but, I am trying to be practical. Also the livelihoods should be traditional and our own. We should not teach them to be employed in BPOs. They shouldn't get affected by the IT/BPO tides. - Whatever we teach, we should be able to give them inputs in such a way that they can lead a comfortable life in future. More Details Place: - How are we to search for the place? Any ideas? 1. We will teach them different languages, a minimum of 5. (Telugu, Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Urdu and a foreign language) - on an average, how many languages will a single child learn from among these 5? 2. Coming to Mathematics, Science and Social, we should have a novel approach. (We should take the advice of trained teachers and we also should analyse the syllabus (both State and Central)) -This needs more research in to educational strategies. I will try to contact Ashakiran people and ask about their contacts. Basically what I feel is that we shouldn't rub them with unnecessary and unwanted load. What is useful to them in regular life is what we teach. - All this is indeed Utopian for me, going by the current scenario...but then, some times un-necessary things also might come to some use. :) See now the Govts. are planning for Integrated Intermediate that enables them to join PG without Graduation. We are wasting lot of time. - I dint get wat u meant! Extracurricular We will teach them - Good idea... but then, yeah... lots of research needs to be done for all these..... A simultaneous old age home is also run but not in the sense of - Thats an excellent idea. -- Finally, all this requires spending some quality amount of time analysing and researching on how to run the home(s) and sustaining them. I don't know how to begin..but, then, I can do whatever that i can in this endeavour, provided i get some guidance. -- --------------------------------------------------- V.B.Sowmya M.S.(by research) in CSE-Second Year Search & Information Extraction Lab, IIIT-Hyderabad my blog:http://vbsowmya.wordpress.com ---------------------------------------------------- >From Prasad Charasala: I agree with Sowmya 100%.
