Pankaj Sinha
The Supreme Being created the universe – this is often found in the prayers of God revered in all the religions of the world. It is also an irrefutable truth that the universe has been created, which we see with our open eyes and also feel with our inner-eyes. Man, animal-bird, river-mountain, tree-plant and vast ocean are in the creation of the universe. In the whole world, this creation is a system of praise in different sects and communities. In the creation of the universe, a person is that beautiful creation, on which there is full responsibility for the protection and promotion of the universe. Man and animal and bird have body, mind, intellect and soul. Man has the power to think, but animals and birds do not. This is the reason why a human being needs education. A human being is a body, a mind, an intellect, a soul and also has the power to think about them. Education is also necessary for the human being, for the human society. If there is only a system of acquiring knowledge in education, then the human being will remain only a storehouse of knowledge. His intellectual development would be limited to bookish education only. It is very important for a human being to have a complete education. Complete learning comes from experience. It is the experience gained from feeling that makes book education practical.
The nature of education is also a creation. Creator is mother, who bears the seed of the child in her womb. Psychologists, on the basis of research, have uncovered the fact that the seed element of human creation in the womb is affected by the daily life of the pregnant mother. What the mother thinks does and listens during pregnancy; the child, developed in the womb, continues to receive the seed element of the mother’s creation through cognition. Scholars also say that from the beginning of the fourth month of pregnancy, the child of the womb starts hearing, understanding through the mother, whose direct vision is visible in the daily life of the child after the birth of the child. The direct evidence of this is the bravery of one Abhimanyu, described in the Mahabharata. When Abhimanyu was in the womb of Mother Subhadra, he had heard the composition of his father’s Chakravyuh war, because Mother Subhadra was concentrated and calmly listening to the words of her husband, who was reaching the conscience of the foetus child. When Arjuna was narrating how to break the Chakravyuh war and get out, Subhadra fell asleep at the same time. This was the reason that the womb child Abhimanyu had entered the Chakravyuh composition in the Mahabharata war, but could not get out of the Chakravyuh and was killed. This is not a story, but the seed element of the right education.
The word that appears from the mouth of the child after birth – that word is mother. The spoken language is the mother’s dialect language. Mother’s behaviour and speech is the seed element of the child’s life development. The first teacher of the child is the mother. The seed element of the human world and the seed element of the child-mother’s language sow the seeds of true education. The child recognizes, understands and holds it in the conscience only through the mother tongue in its initial stage. The child is not taught the mother tongue, it automatically learns under the proximity of the mother. Through the mother tongue, he/she also starts acquiring the knowledge of science and mathematics of domestic items in his conscience. Therefore the early education of the child being in mother tongue is an all-round development of the child understands power, basically Language Knowledge and Numerology.
The seed element of it is contained in the mother tongue itself. After that, any language of the world opens the door of all knowledge automatically. This is the fact behind the 5-year education system in the new National Education Policy 2020 in the context of education. Education in mother tongue is the birth right of the child and it is the duty of the child’s parents to protect this right of the child. The system of society and the country to be compatible with such education is the real education for the formation of ideal life of the child. Bharat is a country full of diversity. There are also many dialects. Our education systems are imprisoned in the capricious web of diversity of languages. In elementary education, the child has to accept the language which is not the mother’s language.
The child learns another language in school, but is not able to accept the behaviour the life through other languages. Receptivity is developed through attachment.
The child acquires knowledge from another language, but is not able to develop his senses properly to face the challenges of life. He gets away from the affinity of mother, soil and society. By the time of his youth, his life starts getting disorientated. He doesn’t understand what to do. He has a wealth of knowledge, but lacks the capacity and courage to face the challenges arising in life. He only sees himself enrolled in the list of educated unemployed. Education is the name of development of full potential by the realization of practical life through knowledge and senses. Therefore the mother tongue is the seed-element to face the challenges of life; which keeps the child connected with the mother, soil and society. The new National Education Policy talks about all-round capacity development from infancy to youth, so that youth can make their own happy path of life. Its basis lies only and only in the mother tongue of the child. The 5-year system of the new National Education Policy 2020 adds to this point. Family, The goal of education in society, state and country should be ideal youth formation. Youth society is the builder of a happy future. In the words of Swami Vivekananda – In the name of education, it is not the filling of knowledge in the mind of an innocent child, but the awakening of the inherent powers of the child through education. The economic resolution for the education system by any government should not only be excessive, but by setting a child-centred policy for child education, it should make a lot of economic resolution on education. The new National Education Policy 2020 exposes this fact. I am not an educationist. Working in the field of education for only four decades has experienced through direct feelings.
It is a heartfelt request to respected educationists to think positively on the role of facts in the mother tongue in the foundational education of the child and give direction to the society and especially the teachers for implementation. Get the right education.