Time to replicate single teacher school model across country, says N. Murali

‘Condition of education in Tamil Nadu better than in other States’

N. Murali, Chairman, Kasturi and Sons Limited, at the 13th annual day of Single Teachers Schools in Chennai on Sunday.

The single teacher school model should be not just emulated, but also replicated across the country, said N. Murali, Chairman, Kasturi and Sons Limited.

Mr. Murali was speaking at the 13th annual day celebrations of Single Teacher Schools, a unit of Swami Vivekananda Rural Development Society, held in the city on Sunday.

“India lacks in education, with a woeful inadequacy of teachers and schools. But the condition in Tamil Nadu is better compared to other States,” he said.

“Many schools in other States have single teachers by default because many of the teachers don’t turn up. But here it has a very positive connotation for holistic development,” Mr. Murali added.

The seed for these schools was sown 13 years ago by Dayananda Saraswathi. The motto is that if children could not go to school, the schools should be taken to children in remote villages, he said.

Positive thinking

S. Vedantam, founder-director, Single Teacher Schools, said that values were lost in today’s education system.

“Our [single teacher] schools are free from everything, including the caste system. Due to this, there is positive thinking,” he said.

K.N. Krishnamurthy, president, Single Teachers Schools and Akhila Srinivasan, chairman, fundraising committee, spoke at the event.