India moves to end primary teaching in English as Modi unveils major education reforms

[T90TankGuy]

Nobody did it forcefully, but I was a Bengali medium student until Class VIII.

Never be able to adjust that well.....? Really? Because of my vocabulary, or my accent, or the miasma of curry that I carry around? Disclaimer - my accent does change between the way I speak in India and the way I speak elsewhere, and my vocabulary is a trifle Edwardian. @jbgt90 objects to the language I use and the way I use it, so I have been sludging my way downwards into a more demotic speech.

I have to deal with the likes of those who don't know the difference between Tamizh, or Thamizh, sometimes spelt Tamil, and tameez, as akin to tehzeeb.

Och aye, the sorrow of it a'. We maun dree our ain weird.

Oey !! stop terrorizing the children here

 

[T90TankGuy]

You were from a different era when children had real drive, motivation, and willingness to be educated properly.

Today's generation of Indian kids raised on a smartphone diet will be hell-damned if they don't speak English from their mother's womb.

I was taught Urdu as a child on my mother's insistence and was homeschooled for a few years. My father wanted me to learn Punjabi at an early age so I was packed away to proper Punjab and enrolled in a school: it was a hodgepodge of languages in my tiny brain. I did take more interest in Urdu than Gurmukhi Punjabi (it's a disaster script similar to Devangari). Basically my parents were fighting a bitter custody battle on their years of separation drama (they never divorced however), and each wanted their way on me. Thankfully, both parents came to their perfect senses and I was enrolled in a proper ICSE English medium in Mumbai by 3rd/4th. Anyway, long story short. I am really thankful for that kind of childhood exposure to non-English languages.

Even I learned proper English a bit late.

But today's generation is different. They just no longer have the drive to learn another language....they're addicted to programming, video gaming, sexting, yes. I really don't know how to handle today's generation of Indian kids: they're all acting like zombies.

I have three kids , the eldest is is how you describe , her iphone and ipad are her life , luckily the other two are the exact opposites.

 

[Peshwa]

I don't think any Indian kid even in CBSE does complete novels by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen before senior secondary. We had A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Pride and Prejudice, in our syllabus. Exactly the same upbringing as a public school child in England right here in Bombay (Mumbai). We also had Shakespeare's 16-18 plays including Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, The Tempest...the entire focus of ICSE used to be English.

However, it wasn't the same in public grounds. Some extreme private schools in India that are synced with ICSE actually used to have "God saves the Queen" in the parade ground...right on Indian soil. Of course, we had to do Jana Gana Mana and Sare Jahan Say Acha.
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Bro, I don't know where you got this about "God saves the queen" for morning assembly, but I went to two "proper" private schools in India with a very deep and rich history of "British/Scottish" traditions.

The Daly College, Indore
The Bombay Scottish School

Never once was "god save the queen" EVER a requirement in the assembly.
There was a fair amount of Christian (Protestant) faith sermons and hymns we had to recite at assembly (which frankly I liked), but NEVER was the National anthem ever substituted with the English Anthem.

Starting to make me believe you were born in pre-independence India lol

@Joe Shearer thoughts?

 

[Joe Shearer]

Dude we meet at Clarke Quay, Sands has great venues.

 

[waz]

Joe kya baat hai?

 

[Joe Shearer]

@Joe Shearer thoughts?

Ignore those. His patented line of bullshit. Just smile and move on.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Joe kya baat hai?

Burning up with jealousy!!

You two scoundrels......

 

[waz]

Burning up with jealousy!!

You two scoundrels......

Brah, it will be at least a year yet (covid), would it be possible for you to come maybe? Make a tour of it, step outside the motherland.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Brah, it will be at least a year yet (covid), would it be possible for you to come maybe? Make a tour of it, step outside the motherland.

I'll have to walk there, but I wouldn't mind.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Oey !! stop terrorizing the children here

Just good clean Wren & Martin fun.

 

[waz]

I'll have to walk there, but I wouldn't mind.

Wait what lol! Joe, you reminiscing about those days in army boots? You need a plane my elder friend.

 

[Joe Shearer]

The point remains that education should not be only for that tiny minority capable of doing PhDs. What South Asia including (especially) Pakistan needs is people with intermediary skills.

And despite all the super educated you produce, from what I see most doctor's and scientists are working at first world problems not at what you need. So a lot of peer reviewed research on specialist cancer treatment , hardly anything on child stunting.
The number of lives ruined by the latter being multiples of the former.
Does anybody even know the cause of air pollution in India or Pakistan ? You hear theories in crop burning or two wheelers but all the brains are busy pushing the frontiers of Alzheimer's research or something like that while there are not enough studies on what affects the average man on a south AsIan street.

Too many chiefs not enough Indians.

I completely agree.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Wait what lol! Joe, you reminiscing about those days in army boots? You need a plane my elder friend.

Umm, er, yes; the shuttle from KL would do nicely. You take a number and sit down, and they keep calling out the last number that can be fitted into the next flight taking off.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Wait what lol! Joe, you reminiscing about those days in army boots? You need a plane my elder friend.

Just kidding.

 

[LittleFish]

Hopefully no more Indians in 2030 on YT be like: ello gais Mai nem is pajeet Sharma & wilcum to Mai chinnal dEziTeCh

lmao, I think I can understand Hindi this time
It is nightmare to present via Skype with Indians in the meeting, I can hardly understand their questions and have to say "Pardon Please?" again and again.