Let me live!
Let me live! One fine evening I got an call from the principal of my school, asking me to use my creativity and come up with an poem. On being asked what was the subject of my poem, she replied. " please try and co-relate it with our education system". What she implied was our present state of education in our country where the children are forced to hatch from their cosy shelters. They are denied of their struggle to find out their own existence. The charm of learning things on one's own, the exhilaration of discovering something new, the smile of innovation is mercilessly snatched away. The education system in our country hardly gives children a chance to learn on their own as most of it is force fed. American Writer and Educator once said "The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery". It made me wonder how many teachers truly believe in the above quoted line, forget followi