Learning By Teaching

 

She walked into the office, smiling. She had just returned from her paternal village, she said and couldn’t wait for school to start again. No, she wasn’t a student, though she did look like one. ‘I am a teacher’, she told me with pride that shone in her eyes. Nilam never thought teaching children at Manav Sadhna would prove to be such a moving and satisfying experience. So much so that today she confidently says that imparting education to the poor is her primary goal. ‘Children in private schools have no dearth of teachers’, she says when I ask her why she wouldn’t work in a private school for a better pay. ‘It is the children in the slums who have no access to education. Many people hesitate to work in the grassroots and hence it becomes difficult to get teachers to teach in the slums. It is the children here who really need us so as to help uplift their condition. And education being the only permanent answer to their problem is the key to any betterment that they may see. Read more