Correct me if Im wrong Facebook, but dont students, teachers and parents too take pride in the name of their school? This identifying with an institution I noticed brings out strong feelings of belonging and love, not just for the the stones and mortar, or the playground. It is the idea of the school that builds up over the generations. I belong to St Josephs Convent, Bandra and I feel a sense of homecoming every time I pass that stately school with its grey granite walls, and remember the staircases, the pattern of the tiling on the floor in the Hall where we gathered for Assembly every morning. The sound of our Bata shoes thumping on the ground as we marched out in single file, girls, the lines are ANYTHING, but straight while our music teacher played a stirring rendition of Colonel Boogies march on the piano. The institution itself played such a huge part in our lives and Im so glad that it did. It was never all sunshine and roses. There was also considerable humiliation, crazy ass goals set, which both the goal setters and the goal getters knew were never going to be achieved, but went through the motions none the less. There were teachers we loved and teachers we hated, yes YOU, Bhooka Bhediya, I hope you are blistering in Hell. We were fiercely possessive of our school and any insult or slight was immediately put down with great gusto - verbal as well as physical. There was Carmel convent, and St Andrews and St Stanislaus and those students were as violently possessive of the reputation of their schools as we were of ours. Regardless of the fact that personally, we were a disreputable bunch. And now one reads of this Govt Primary School and that Govt Secondary School and it sounds pathetic. So, I was thinking, Facebook, why dont we put pressure on the Govt to give a proper name to every school that mushrooms in villages and towns everywhere. Okay forget about Saints. In todays heightened awareness of whats politically correct and whats not, why not use the names of great scientists, a Thomas Edison School, an Alexander Graham Bell school, Baudhayan (the guy who first calculated the value of pi) Aryabhatta,no politicians names, no founders names, just great mathematicians, scientists, writers, all those who have been great contributors to the betterment of the human condition. Think how chuffed the students of Madame Curies School for Girls would be. Let the students identify with the idea of the individual whose name their school bears. Lets be done with so and so village Balwadi, or so and so towns Govt Primary School. Give the kids something to identify with. What dyou think Facebook?
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:27:50 +0000
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