[Following I wrote on request of world pulse net on
one of their efforts of contributing or providing any ‘community’, any member a
helping hand so this note I like to dedicate to that one of their efforts,projects on ‘girls access to education’. The last date to submit the essays and
stories was ‘10th May 2013. I was unable to send this to the net –
world pulse on time therefore I decided to post it on this path]
I generally do not like to stick to a single story here
in order to share my ideas and views with ‘worldpulse net’ and who ever reads
this.
I have a little question to ask before I write this
essay based on my personal experiences of here and there of living, reading,
writing and observing too.
What harm that gives a person in sharing at least a
bit of knowledge with the other needy people of education/learning if she /he have
the ability and the will to do so? Do you really have to be a formal or
academically appointed teacher to share what you have learnt from this and that
of sources of Education?
Role of a family
Roles of a family one can define or categorize under
different facets thinking of every corners of human needs giving this and that
of explanations and definitions plus one can analyze the same depending on the
needs and desires of people apart from the general universal or essential needs
of general human beings.
Housing or shelter
Food
Clothing
No trouble places or Peaceful environment to live
Access to pure drinking water
One can list any list not just the basic human needs.
Education is a must have thing in this world. Facilities provided or will be
providing for any child to get a better education is not just a family‘s
responsibility it is a whole bog responsibility of a whole nation.
The authorities has to be ready to welcome the child
from the child is somewhat prepared giving necessary love plus understanding
before sending to a outside world ‘the formal education entity the school’ for
most kids a heaven the child is coming from a so close to each other place that
is a place that some name not home sweet homes but ‘homes heaven like homes’.
Family or a place of living – home or the house or the
mansion, castle or the pel patha, or shanties, the temporary shelters or semi
permanent or royal park like ‘ thattu gewal ( storied houses) housing schemes,
or from the places like ‘ 60 watte’ or Sri Siddharthapura’ area ‘ what ever
area or what ever places or names you give the location one belongs to no
matter ‘ all should have the access to education’
All should have the access to education. We know the
levels of reaching the sight that the person or the child wants solely depend
on the skills and talents of the child that too we know. But to sharpen child’s
skills or motivate him/her, providing necessary aduma kuduma ( the essentials )
it is a role of a teacher, school very including ‘the parents’
I understand that now a days parents are so busy ‘thinking
of their child all the time’ which school to send , what things to be provided
which lane or education she/he should take every morning to evening they have
things to think that is because they are their children’
Child is the most important person that is the idea
of the present scholars compared to early or very yester years or decades and
decades of gone by days the days that the Robert Knox identified.
Role of a family is immeasurably important firstly
the parents of a girl or a boy child should understand the ‘value of gaining
better education’ formal or informal way. That is the main and very ‘trustable
foundation’ second to no other foundation built using very concreted mixture way.
No other person, individual, relative or a group can
underestimate your child s right to education or right to live then it is you (the
parents) who can give your child a better education plus security no one else
can do much better than you sometimes.
Let me share just a single story to prove my idea
which is ‘the family – the school is the best and undoubtfully important
institution for a child to get an informal education in a formal and very close
way. That is at the very preliminary level or the stage.
Education is not just learning A – Z letters and
words and concepts, definitions, arts and crafts, science and mathematics etc.
it comes along with other confidence and encouraging ingredients.
I try to avoid saying or mentioning names here
I was not that small when I first heard this from a
very respected I love so much teacher (I do not like to mention her name here)
she belongs to a very reputed family of her area and generally this my talk
goes back to early 70 s. Generally back in those days so called ‘lower’ ‘caste’
or ‘class’ people go and help the households of above mentioned, opposite
categories of people in this and that of out of houses, in the gardens for work
for instance ‘collecting firewood for their reputed kitchen and play with their
kids, baby sitting for their families even this was expected from the kids of
some sort, pluck fruits or collate coconuts from the gardens of prospers (class
of a person changes due to very many reasons not like ones caste ) other than
that families of the era that I particularly talk of that is 70’s do not expect
the other family children to get maximum education like the children of their
families.
Some how this patterns of thinking and treating
children the way above mentioned that some used on children's right to education
and parents big like universe desires to give their kids a better education
thankfully changed a lot due to few important reasons.
The parents always loved and wanted their kids to get
better education even on any era even though some were not sent to formal institutions
back in early years before introducing any acts along with full potential definitions
and encouraging notes of better education.
One is thanks to the ‘FREE EDUCATION SYSTEM OF THE
COUNTRY introduced though even this took a little while to established the idea
among the country people and all over country it was not easy at all to change
people’s attitudes toward many things not only about education or related
rights. Not only the idea of free
education but also acceptance, the free books text books and necessary modules
for a libertyful learning, within the ideas of providing better education they
introduced some small lines likes providing something for them to eat –
nutritional cookies or a glass of milk
for free to give them a little libertyful but hungry- less mind to learn freely
and peacefully.
I like to emphasize
that access to EDUCATION - FREE
EDUCATION became a reality thanks to the idea headed by ‘ Dr. C.W.W. Kannnagara
and later all supportive heads and brains tops to bottom and the support given
by the families
The idea of free education provided the children of
lets say poor or unprivileged families a
huge ladder to go up ‘so easily with out facing any destructions and hazards (
no mental torture from any so called families at that era) of any group or family.
So let me come back to what I was telling
She thought (I do not think that she has changed much
in her opinions even now) that only the kids of her kind of families should
learn MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCES AND BECOME DOCTORS (MEDICAL) AND ENGINEERS OR become
HIGH LY RESPECTED personalities POSITIONS holders not the other children of her
village who come and work in their own paddy fields or in their acres of home
gardens with coconuts, mangoes or bananas so such children should learn
anything below such recognition of education
So this free education given OUR CHILDREN our people
all girls and boys a chance for a better education at formal schools and in
UNIVERSITIES caste or class become nothing before this immeasurable idea of
free EDUCATION therefore children of all families got the opportunity to learn
like all others and became strong in their living ‘ education full fills
people’s and parents , societies desires to become ‘top’ in a good way without
alienating cornered from other societies of other regions continents or
territories of the world.
Cash is not a big issue to get a better education for
children who has the access to free education. My parents not belonged to a
cuurnecily, highly reputed family or they were not on top of the village even
when think of the divisions of a society. Thanks to free education I could
study up to University though during the latter stage of our lives my father
had very less affordability issues he could easily spent any money that needed
for my education
When parents are strong and especially when fathers
think that their daughters should get maximum level of education exactly like
their sons no one can underestimated their daughters . My father my first
teacher, mother taught different things or I learnt different things watching
her she is not a lazy woman at all compared to now she was very different then even
now she writes every thing down or keep notes of her expenditure sometimes she
has very old receipts of the things that they have bought from different
places. Those things too come under education, one of the categories informal
though such things are different to academically framed or certified ways ‘informal education or self learning there are
plentiful ways. I know what effort he
took to make me understand ‘the importance of education’
Therefore I believe PARENTS and family support and
understanding the importance of education for all levels of girls, ladies of
all age or that is the main thing that daughters and sons need. I m thinking of
some of the societies at this moment I know how some societies think when it
comes to girls access to education.
Back in early years of this region we live ‘the girls
were killed just because they were born as girls or as daughters because of
many reasons ‘ dowry was one of the reasons’ and child marriages from the very
first moment of their births their marriages were arranged. Now the situation is different and I know even
when compared to this region with that region or those regions ‘ attitudes
towards better education of any group, people are much better’
Still ‘ATTITUDES’ of some people needs to be changed
with regard to ‘peons’ should remain as peons ‘clerks should remain as clerks
maids do not have the rights to get better educations nannies should only learn how to take care of
a child ‘people needs to changed them selves ‘ though we live in this
technologized world we people live in cages still.
ALL HAVE RIGHT TO GET BETTER EDUCATION FORMAL OR
INFORMAL WAY
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