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Synthesis is Our tradition-UGC SPONSORED national seminar organized by Kstc department of educationAshraf T.P. Principal, Keyi Sahib Training College
Hathib K.K. Co-ordinator of the Seminar
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“Change is essential but continuity is also necessary. The future has to be built on the foundations laid in the past and in the present. To deny the past and break with it completely is to uproot ourselves and, sapless, dry up. It was the virtue of Gandhiji to keep his feet firmly planted in the rich traditions of our race and our soil and, at the same time, to function on the revolutionary plane. Above all, he laid stress on truth and peaceful means. Thus he built on old foundations, and at the same time, oriented the structure towards the future”. (From Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speech ‘India Today and Tomorrow’, (February 1959)
India, our country, has a rich tradition which finds its source at an unknown point of time before thousands of years. We had a glorious past which could exist above any other social system in the world at any particular span of era. The man who coined the Malayalam Proverb which can be translated like this, ‘ The jasmine at one’s own court yard never smells’, is exactly write that we often search for the remedies for our problems sinking into the western streams of thoughts and ideologies. We often forget that they have a rather inferior tradition and historical foundation. We are often mistaken with the great task called modernization and we blindly imitate the western trends and strategies. We can find remedies for most of our problems in different walks of life by making a glance at our glorious past. This does not mean that we should completely turn away from the western perspectives. We would better accept a sort of synthesis which some of our great leaders propagated and promoted. I may borrow the words of Panditji from the same speech which I mentioned earlier, “Rammohun Roy came, seeking some kind of a synthesis between old India and modern trends. Vivekananda brought back something of the vigour of old Indian thought and dressed it in a modern garb. Political and cultural movements grew up and culminated in Gandhiji and Rabindranath Tagore”. We often seem to be ignorant of the synthesis which some our great leaders who, on the other hand, are great educationalists, too, argued for and successfully implemented in some of their institutions. This model ie. the synthesis of our tradition with the acceptable modern trends can be , if implemented in proper manner, can solve the problems which haunt our educational scenario. The most important problem which we face today is value crisis. The shocking element in this regard is that educated people, too, are reported to commit severe crimes like rape, robbery, corruption etc. If we analyse the problem in an accurate and sincere manner, we can find that we completely gave up our traditional values when accepting the modern educational trends and developments in our country. A number of such problems like lack of proper life skills, suicide tendency, scattered family life are there which are aroused because of this blind acceptance of western educational strategies and complete negligence of our native impulses. The educational concepts of Tagore, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Gandhiji, Iqbal etc. are best examples for this synthesis. Significance The purpose of this seminar would be to discuss and analyze the synthesized educational systems propagated and promoted by some great Indian educationalists and to study whether such a synthesis would be possible in the present educational scenario, and if it is possible, how it can be popularized and implemented. Objectives a. To Make the present generation teachers and students aware of the still-relevant tradition of our country b. To find remedies for the present problems faced by the Indian Educational Scenario. c. To propagate and promote the Indian Model of Methodology and Pedagogy which much superior to the Western Educational Trends d. To popularize the strategies used by Indian Educationalists for Inculcating Values without neglecting practical life. To study whether we can prepare spiritually well prepared professionals. |