Chaotic situation of Education in Rural India

Bharatbhai R Pandya Acp That is the thing. We were taught English from 5 th Standard as it was a Missionary School.The teachers were very sincere, there was one teacher who was B.Sc. and was teaching us science subjects, his name ( I remember his name even after 60 years, it was Samuel Christie, he saw that were deficient in English Grammar, and said once, " Unless you have a sound grip on English Grammar, you will not be able to learn English language properly. So , he started taking extra class for English Grammar ( after the school hours ) and taught us tenses first and then some peculiarities of Grammar constructions ! This was not his job , but had a passion to teach us correct things correctly.------------------------------------------ 2. As a child I saw illiterate adults going into the school building in out maholla at night , they learnt at least reading casually and putting their signatures ! One of such an adult student rose to be Member of Surat Municipal Corpn and became Chairman of water Suppy !-------------------------I was General secretary and President of a NGO South Gujarat Deen Bandhu Congress and we were conducting classes for adults but rarely a genuine adult came and learnt, mostly school children attended the classes, with a hope that they would not be subjected to attend Adult Literacy Courses !----------------The situation in rural side is quite disappointing as there are no rooms , tables and teachers always missing and coming once or twice in a month to collect their salaries . VarNvyavastha has also an impact on rural scenario as the teachers do not want to teach the students of SCs and Adivasis at all . They desire that the boys should get recdruited as farm labour only. ----- Unluckily M. Gandhi had similar view and questioned the advisability of opening new schools for Dalit and Adivasi students ( Such were our rotten leaders )