A Teacher's Response to COVID19 Second Wave

 

From the Pen-APN

All the hard times, the sad times and the confused times may begin with Covid. With some imperceptible viral load, your body’s temperature may rise and, in tandem, your degree of isolation too. Those who are optimistic and hopeful of another fine morning are seen mentally reiterating, “If not today, then tomorrow the temperature will subside and the world will be all dance and fun as before.” But while doing so and hoping against hope, the most optimistic one unluckily may have given a super chance to the malicious virus to play its fatal game. The light of the day will diminish and by the evening, that hopeful and healthy person will find to his /her dismay that the oxygen level is steeply decreasing, in perfect tune with an approaching dark night.

Those who are fortunate find timely care and adequate medical assistance and those who are less fortunate miss the same and mishaps appear in the news. Unless the friends, relatives and family members take early steps to make medical assistance available to the diseased, it will often become too late.  

Now some pertinent questions are posed in a broader perspective, “How far can we provide adequatemedical support to the vast population of this country? Can our Medical Infrastructure and trained workforce sustain such massive outbreaks? Are the Governments doing the needful? Do the general public and service providers behave sensibly and refrain from overcharging the distressed?”

All the questions will have the inevitable “NOs”.

It is the point where we miserably stand. As an educationist, I cannot wait further, hoping against hope that some Government will come to my rescue and improve my fate with a magical wand. Those pink dreams are already stolen long back. Now I say to myself, “History bears testimony that the teaching fraternity can build a nation of order and harmony by educating young minds.” It is a universal truth, “everything may be lost but the future still remains.” And the teachers are the privileged ones who tune the future in their classrooms. As an antidote to such troubled affairs, the teaching fraternity can work miracle just by shifting their focus a bit. Now let us not simply build the future of our youth, now let us build our youth for the future. This is the need of the time. The vision has to become broader which can affect the future of our nation in a decade if we start it today in the classrooms. Hope for the best for another educational revolution…. Jay Hind, Jay Bharat!

Shakespeare's Macbeth, A Cinematic Discussion

From the pen-APN

Dear Friends, 

I have presented a cinematic discussion on Macbeth on my YouTube Channel, APN'S EDUCREATIONS. I fervently hope the video will help all my students in their preparations. In this blogpost I pen down the transcript of my video which will serve as an invaluable note to answer questions on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Click the given link to visit the video

Shakespeare's Macbeth, Odisha State Model Syllabus, English Honours. - YouTube

"Macbeth is a play of unbridled ambition and regicide.

Power has a price and it is paid in blood.

When ambition goes unrestrained without moral restrictions, destruction results.

Macbeth is a classic tale about an ambitious Scottish lord who seizes the throne with the help of his wife, Lady Macbeth.

Macbeth is not naturally inclined to commit evil deeds but he deeply desires power and the throne. His inordinate desire for power has a great price and, in the play, it is paid in blood.

Macbeth tells the story of a brave Scottish general (Macbeth) who receives a prophecy from a trio of sinister witches that one day he will become king of Scotland. Consumed with ambitious thoughts and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and seizes the throne for himself. He begins his reign haunted by guilt and fear and soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. His guilt and his paranoid mental state now force him to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. Macbeth’s insecurities, his guilt complex and fear for punishment result in the murder of Banquo. Macduff’s wife and children in a series of heinous crimes. This bloodbath and consequent civil war rapidly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a play with a difference. This is the only play where he has introduced the witches. It is the only play where the hero turns into a villain. It is the only play in which poetic justice is meted out. 

Temptation begets sin. And sin begets unresolved inner conflicts. Out of unresolved inner conflicts, there comes a series of irrational behavior that finally meets an inevitable punishment. "

 With Love,

APN SIR

An Ideal Education System

 

From the pen-APN

The learners’ minds are not like empty pitchers, where you being the educators, are assigned the arduous task of filling them with some essential information as per syllabi. The education system that runs on such a precinct is doomed to fail. Education is something that liberates and widens the horizon of human thinking. Giving leverage to freedom of thoughts and making the mind self-reliant for conducting independent pursuits of knowledge and explorations of new vistas of human perception are the basic tenets of an ideal education system. And these high aspirations of human existence require a strong foundation of spiritual consciousness. This is the only way through which the high ideals of our education system can be realized.

 

An Opinion

 

From the pen-APN

"Unless the intelligentsia comes forward to defend democracy and guide the unguided youths of India, the doom will keep on hanging over the entire country. Time has come when each and every individual (mostly who belongs to the teaching fraternity of this nation) has to become a beckon-light of high ideals of humanity so that the youths of the nation could inherit the essential pre-qualifications needed to steer the country to safety, prosperity and progress.”