I wait, I wait for the right time at times and the right time for this blog has come today. I have been writing off and on for several years now, but, with this blog i hope i will finish, or rather start, a new dimension about myself and the basic purpose of my existence.
This blog will be about things i like, things i am passionate about, things i want to change and
things i am actively pursuing to make a change in our present system.
I am presently working with a government organisation in the field of tribal education and I believe, given the kind of education I had, this is the right profile for me. I have never felt this young in a long time. My last two jobs were also with government organisations but I felt stagnated after a point of time. I hope this will not be the case this time as the team in the present set up comprises of some excellent minds.
As part of my orientation, I am presently on a field visit to Rampachodavaram and have done extensive field work during the last 2 days.
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I visited this area with a clean slate i.e. I did not go to the schools keeping in mind what kind of schools they are, I just stopped the vehicle everytime i came across a school in that area. To classify now, and visit schools according to the categories I have been assigned would defeat my basic purpose of looking at things objectively. I wanted to see all kinds of schools and my focus was primarily on the quality of education. I visited 10 schools in 3 days (including Sunday) and asked simple mathematical questions to the students and to my surprise, i found out that a majority of them were not able to solve basic subtraction or multiplication questions. In some schools, class 3rd students were able to solve the questions unclear to 6th class students. The focus was on rote learning and memorisation. There is no focus on process of solving.
