Principal’s Contemplation
How do you do?
I dread to think what will become of the ongoing fashion of education
which betrays a somewhat deficient liaison between the educators and the
taught. Covid-19 which can pertinently be christened, ‘Social and Political
Corona’ has inevitably impinged upon our talented youngsters’ educational
requisites. Hence, the moot question is how to get deliverance from the
malignancy of this cruel tyrant of an aptly designated ‘Anti-social Corona’.
What is most significantly discernible here is that this genre of corona will
leave behind more baneful and pernicious consequences for the future of mankind
than the existing genus of the same.
I envision no sure-enough remedy for this flash point anywhere in sight
except to build up as infallible an immunity as possible against it. But, there
are people who find this suggestion of consuming the dose of immunity
absolutely repugnant as though their only avowed and sacrosanct preoccupation
and superlative predilection in life is a stubborn opposition and unfounded
resistance to all progressive, reformist and avant-garde forces.
People in ancient times gave credence to supernatural occurrences
without rhyme or reason. Even today, there is no dearth of such people as are
gullible enough to unfailingly believe in the efficacy of such miraculous
events. It seems there is total absence of self-reliance, self-sufficiency and
self-containment on their part which is a glaring testimony to their sluggish
and lackadaisical approach to life. Children of today are bereft of the fundamental
values; they have got themselves acclimatized to easy ways of achievement.
Their moral foundations have been corroded, enfeebled and enervated so much so
that it requires strenuous and arduous struggle to resuscitate and revivify
them.
Now, the question arises as to how to cope with the situation. Teachers
have to come forward, as they did earlier, to play the role of torchbearers in
order to ameliorate the situation. No gains are possible without enduring
suffering and privation. Other alternatives to alleviate and extenuate the present
torment include partial opening of schools, regular daily physical exercises
for 1-2 hours, counseling classes etc. Parents’ role in conjunction with that
of the teachers becomes crucial in setting an exemplary precedent for the rest
to emulate. If appropriate actions are not taken within the time limit, I am
afraid; the situation would become incapable of containment and virtually
irremediable after 2025.
Man is a gregarious being and so instinctively inclined to live and
achieve everything in a companionable and convivial manner. Consequently,
learning outcome in detached surroundings will come to naught. Man’s learning
is magnified tremendously when it takes place in a team with perseverance
replete with hope. Nature recompenses man’s every activity; whatever changes
are palpable are the reflections of nature.
So, to obtain our sublime mission, let all the stakeholders join hands
and start working together in a spirit of camaraderie relinquishing the game of
calumniating and aspersing each other.
“We only have to look at
ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t
want to meet.” – Stephen Hawking
(Dr. H S Vashistha)
Principal
DPS Bulandshahr
