School Speech by Chief Guest

Draft speech of Mrs. D. Purandeswari, MoS-HRD (HE) as Chief invitee on the occasion of the yearbook Day of the Rainbow Concept teach, Mahaboobnagar, A. P on 9th February, 2007 at 5. 30 p. m. It gives me immense joyfulness to be here this even out and to address the young students of the Rainbow Concept educate on the occasion of its Annual Day function of the school. The Rainbow concept School has been established by Dr. A. Madhusudhan Reddy genuinely thoughtfully for an oer alone gain of a tyke and to integrate his schoolman excellence with his personality learning.Education is non just the amount of information that is prepare into a childs brain undigested, unrelated an unassimilated. The very outcome of education is the concentration of mind and not mere order of battle or collation of items. As Swami Vivekananda said Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. The concept of education is that it should military service the formation of theat rical role expansion of intellect and development of a positive pot of the life. It is this man-making theatrical role which is the basic object of all education.A model school should be a mirror of the childs personality wherein education should constitute the versed beauty. Rainbow Concept School. I understand strives to identify and nurture innate talents and abilities. experimentation and creativity through interactive and scientifically developed activities, traditional value with modern have inter line of descentledge and information, all-round development of the students without any discrimination or prejudices are the basic objectives of quality education.I am as sured that these ideas form the meat contents in educational pattern of the school which prepares the young multiplication to become leaders in whatever career they choose and to digest positively towards self, family, society, nation and the entire world. I am pleased to know that Rainbow understands the ne ed for effective communication and therefore offers intensive coaching in both oral and written communication skills. This helps in expressing ideas clearly and effectively. separate activities standardised group discussions, elocution, seminars etc. , are conducted for the personality development of students.Innovative workshops, projects and node lectures by eminent personalities are organized for the benefit of students. Finally works of art help one to relate with the world. The expressions denote the experience and the individuals learnedness ability towards society. Rainbow lets students kindle the fire of creativity in them who are motivated to enter and display their talents in interschool and at various otherwise competitions. rocking horse clubs at Rainbows provide the for a for students to express and hone their skills and talent in a range of activities like painting, arts, music and dance, debate elocution stamp collection and so on.Students need some while to relax and rejuvenate. This helps in reading better and to a fault keeps the mind and body healthy. This is done through sports and games. They help in keeping the body fit and provide mental relaxation. It is also very heartening to be informed that field trips are an constitutional part of education at Rainbow. Students are taken to notes of historical splendor, scientific interest, farms and fields to give them first-hand idea on various occupations. This en commensurates students to see for themselves the amentaceous processes of goods of our daily use.These trips are preceded by assigning them projects on the proposed pose of visit, its deduction and are followed by summarizing their individual experiences. This should provide a strong vocational bias to our educational dust which is the need of the day. A school ground on the rainbow model has to ensure that entire education should take place in natural surroundings in tandem with nature where a child should learn to identity plants, flowers and birds in the apply air.This would be especially attractive to a child who while leaving the threshold of substructure and going to school for the first time needs a muckle of inducement and persuasion for study. Nature, as Gandhiji used to observe frequently, has enough to gather mans needs still not his greeds. This should be firmly implanted in a childs mind so that he may constantly be aware that man has a special duty to protect Nature. Students should be made aware of their responsibility and duty towards protecting nature and prevent its wanton destruction which regrettably seems to be rder of the day. Some simple practices like supporting planting of trees sporadically in their neighbourhood, watering the plants and nurturing them, digging pits for rain water harvesting should be taught. These and other would foster in a child caring and overlap attitude towards nature and life on earth and a slurred appearance of the flora and fauna. To engender education more attractive, the students of lower classes should be imparted education through play-way methods. They should be taught to identify various colours, sounds, shapes and objects.Exercises like clay-modeling, building sand castles, the playpen and other interactive methods should be adopted to make learning more interesting and attractive. In this context I would like to bring to your notice that this is how Tagore conceptualized and broughts up his famous Santiniketan (Abode of Peace) where the entire educational system was integrated from pre- greenhouse to the stage of Masters Degree and where the didactics was imparted in open air classrooms in natural surroundings. Poet himself used to take some nursery and pre-nursery classes and imparted education through music dance and drama composed by him.In some cases Tagore used to take part in the dramas and plays along with other children at times he also used to personally monitor the works of painting and cra ft made by the children and put in a few words of encouragement for them. This instilled life in teaching as well as learning and served as a enlarged booster for uplifting the spirit of the children. Indeed Tagore made education prideful and playful for all children. Under Tagores watchful supervision, a social atmosphere was created for students to interact with their teachers and share a relation of mutual self-assurance and relateion.This led to a congenial environment conducive for teaching and learning. teach was provided through interactive teaching methods. The curiosity of the students was not suppressed unless encouraged and students had the freedom to express their opinions and to seek their own answers subject of course to the correction by teachers wherever necessary. No wonder, this unconventional methodology gained pronto recognition and due to Poets untiring efforts and zeal, Shantiniketan won international story and ere long it became the hub of foreign sch olars interested in arious facets of our heritage and culture. The organizers of the Rainbow Concept School would do well to take a leaf out of Tagores book in shaping the future of their school. One of the basic drawbacks of to-days schooling is that tens of thousands of school-going children in India are penalized by an educational system that has more often than not failed to take into account their special learning needs. It is time we better mum the profile of students with learning difficulties. Sustained application of sound scientific experience in the classroom stub make a difference.Such application can occur only if our schools had more teachers anchored in the cognition of neurological functions that equal learning. Teachers can then assess their students strengths and weaknesses in order to modify their instruction, so that all students benefit. Failure in school often portends low self-pride as adults, and most certainly contri andes to poor productivity in mast er life. With its escalating needs for economic development, India cannot afford a future citizenry that hasnt been addicted the scholastic consideration and opportunities it deserves in childhood.The reluctance of school administrators to train teachers in these areas is puzzling. What is worse is that students failure permeates into the home. School authorities and teachers are seldom able to reassure distraught parents. Educators and psychologists occasionally offer diagnoses of dyslexia, or other learning disability, but seldom is a learning plan offered to the child or the parent that meets that childs specific requirements. This is because teachers often do not know how a child learns, and are over focused on what a child learns.Given the pressure on children to be all-rounded, it is perhaps a matter of time before most students experience a breakdown in learning. To be successful in school, students need to be good at galore(postnominal) things at the same time regardless o f their strengths or weaknesses. This leads to frustration, humiliation, and failure among galore(postnominal) of them. An undue pressure on the child can adversely affect his subject to learn, as well as his ability to take pleasure in academic work. We must not forget that education must and should be joyous, not onerous. I have earlier referred to the successful growth of Tagores Santiniketan as focal excite of imparting true and meaty education without tears. But the study of attainment and technology was not sufficiently emphasized in their educational curriculum. This was not because of any inherent spot or deliberate lapse in their educational planning but because when Santiniketan was set up more than a century back (precisely on 22-12-1901) the study of Science and technology was not assigned the overriding importance in our educational curriculum. The position has undergone a sea-change since then in view of the phenomenal and exponential progression in science an d technology.The organizers of the Rainbow Concept School cannot afford to ignore this development. We have to remember that all training and teachings should be basically centered round science and technology. The 21st Century is universally acknowledged as the Knowledge Century which means that Knowledge or brain power through an extensive study and application of science and technology should be reflected in a countrys competitiveness, advancement and world capabilities Human capabilities today are a function of the offbeat of a people and the investment we make in human beings outstanding formation.The ability of a nation to make best use of its knowledge or brain power will ultimately determine its place in the comity of nations in he present century. In this context, lifelong learning is a high priority for all and is in fact fundamental to the development of a nation. It builds the base for economic and social development, and fosters the capacity of individuals to contri bute to and benefit from, that development. It also sustains and enriches both individual and overall culture of a nation and builds mutual respect and understanding that ultimately transcends all national differences and barriers.The Rainbow Concept School has to keep in view this development if it really wants to come up as a focal point of professional excellence. And yet, I must, caution that professional excellence without accompanying human virtues may many prove disastrous. As the adage goes that knowledge without compositors case and science without humanity portend dangerous signals for a valued-based democratic society. We must therefore ensure that the development of a knowledge society encouraging professional excellence does not directly or indirectly discards the rudiments of human excellence .In the beautiful and inimitable words of our philosopher-statesman Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, (I quote) Knowledge is not something to be packed away in some corner of our br ain, but is what enters into our being, colour our emotion, haunts our soul, and is as close to us as life itself. It is the over mastering power which through the intellect moulds the whole personality, trains the emotions and disciplines the will. UnquoteI am sure that Rainbow Concept School would go a long way in boosting the tempo of development and help our country to reach soaring high school of perfection which would enable it to become a powerhouse of intellectual elbow grease and knowledge engine of the world without in any compromising the qualities human virtues of kindness compassion, sympathy and fellow-feeling. With these words, I have great pleasure in inaugurating the Annual Day Function of the Rainbow Concept School. Jai Hind.