A legal luminary and a top bureaucrat lent weight to the Teacher’s Day function in Kolar, with many people’s representatives including the District in-charge Minister U.T. Khader choosing not to attend. Zilla panchayat president Rathnamma, CMC president B.M. Mubarak and Kolar Urban Development Authority (KUDA) chairman Venkatamuniyappa, were among the attendees.
Supreme Court judge H.N. Nagamohandas and State Election Commissioner P.N. Srinivasachary spoke on the occasion. “Teachers motivated the students and youth in the freedom movement of the country and also the fight against feudal lords post-Independence,” Mr. Nagamohandas said.
He said that the present-day teaching community had three challenges before it: removing inequality in the education system, the lack of quality education, and the privatisation and
commercialisation of education.
A common and equal education with access to all strata of society was necessary to fulfill the aspirations of a welfare society envisaged in the Constitution, Mr. Nagamohandas said.
Mr. Srinivasachary said the concepts of syllabus and marks were impeding the growth of young minds. “Classrooms should be become a place where children learn lessons of life. And teachers alone can perform this duty,” he added.
