Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan, Kerala High Court judge, said here on Saturday that if parenting was not proper, there should be some social or societal interference by way of regulations. “This is what normally led to parent-teacher confrontation in schools and parent-public confrontation in the public domain”.
Mr. Radhakrishnan made the observation while addressing a gathering after inaugurating the golden jubilee celebrations of Trinity Lyceum, an ISCE and ISC school managed by the Kollam diocese. He said the Principal had paramount powers in matters of discipline connected with an educational institution.
He said equally important was the power of teachers. When a teacher puts a continuous gaze on a student, the student falls on track. “But time has shown the depletion in obedience to values in the last two decades in this part of the world. It is here that parenting becomes very important”.
Mr. Radhakrishnan, a former student of Trinity Lyceum, said parenting sometimes became a critical problem in some institutions. “You have parents who are immensely wealthy, and for them wealth is what ultimately matters. But the fact is that if you cannot stick to human values, wealth is of no worth at all.”
Stating that the teaching profession was one of exceptional commitment, he called upon the teachers to inculcate model teaching practice that made people think. But this is being lost in present day education system as all have too much of information technology coming in.
He said that if the processing in the mother board of a computer does not simultaneously happen in the brain of the student who uses it, then it becomes a useless exercise. He said the golden jubilee celebration was also on occasion to commence an assessment as to how the inputs that had come to the institution in the last 50 years can be used for the better modulation of the future generation.
Kollam Bishop Stanley Roman presided over the function. School Principal Chevalier S. John welcomed the gathering.
