PROSE
Father, Dear Father
-Raj Kinger
Title: Father Dear Father
Penned by: Raj Kinger
Culled from: An article from ‘The Hindu’
For All Paragraph Answers:
Raj Kinger writes for the press. Father, Dear Father is an article published in the English daily, The Hindu. It is an effective, thought-provoking commentary on the education system prevailing now. It highlights the defects in the mind sets of parents, learners, teachers. It sets all to a new wave of thinking. It is in the form of a letter to a father.
Textual Lines:
Papa, my grand father speaks of a carefree and beautiful childhood.
From his talk, it seems studies were an ancillary subject; and living and expensing the major subject.
Do you think, literary is a harbinger of restlessness, fear frustration?
And she was cross. She said go ask the guy who keeps gardening things.
This was only to lighten my over-burdened heart.
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”
-Albert Einstein
“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers”
-Helen Keller
General Relevance:
This article enables the learners to identity the defects in the present-day education system. It also highlights the defects in the mind sets of parents, learners, teachers and the government bodies. The present education system should be changed.
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education”
Mark Twain.