English and Hinglish: Learn the best of Queen's language
English, per se has no doubt universal application. It has to be learnt. Though the Britishers have left a vast legacy to our country despite Jallianwala Bagh, we are thankful for this wonderful language.
THE PARENTS are more conscientious in selecting a school for admitting their ward or wards so that the latter’s life should prove bright and successful in the future. Good!
No doubt, obviously it should be the aim of all the parents.
While the parents ideate such conclusion, we find one distinctive element being introduced in their minds. My child should study in the best of the convent some schools bearing names and styles such as Surya English Medium Private School-Mercy Convent, Krishna Vidhyalay Convent. Such facades are prevalent mostly in urban society.
What we notably understand is that their child should speak in English; more particularly when the parents are in public eye. ‘Mummy’…. ‘daddy’ if the child utters, parents’ glee and exuberance is multifold.
Although the parents prevail or avail such chances to enjoy such feats at, they create a gala when they are in common place, marriage hall or school function speaking to the child in English whether the child understands or not; but parents understand that their friends are keen to listen or they feign to listen.
English, per se has no doubt universal application. It has to be learnt. Though the Britishers have left a vast legacy to our country despite Jallianwala Bagh, we are thankful for this wonderful language.
Let us go back and dig some history.
While we were dependent on the British, our system of education was based on aliens who ruled us. We were humbled, immature and literally indigent to praise with an anthem, ‘God save the queen’, and needed a schooling system to suite the date and duration.
Although the parents prevail or avail such chances to enjoy such feats at, they create a gala when they are in common place, marriage hall or school function speaking to the child in English whether the child understands or not; but parents understand that their friends are keen to listen or they feign to listen.
English, per se has no doubt universal application. It has to be learnt. Though the Britishers have left a vast legacy to our country despite Jallianwala Bagh, we are thankful for this wonderful language.
Let us go back and dig some history.
While we were dependent on the British, our system of education was based on aliens who ruled us. We were humbled, immature and literally indigent to praise with an anthem, ‘God save the queen’, and needed a schooling system to suite the date and duration.
We found inevitably such institutions and we were compelled to fall in such decadence, whatever the job opportunity we had enjoyed but nothing was indigenous except rice, idli, dosa and sambar. Of course, even the parent names were abbreviated from Krishnamachary to Chari, Parthasarathy to sheer Sarathy and Subramanian to Subi or Subra. Even in dress code also we imitated the English. The integument, a coat with veshti, shirt, necktie and a turban and the man spoke with accurate grammar but missing a lot of phonetics and stunning the original Englishman of yore, for example, ‘take it for granted’, saying, ‘take it for granite’. For ‘Zoology’ ‘Zu..OA.logy’, for ‘Wensday’ ‘Wenesday or Wednesday’.
This was the levity, frivolity and flippancy observed in major areas those days.
The aim and object here is that should we think that the standard of English in the private schools are appreciably that good when the foreigners were camping and imparting English in India. These days the private schools are more commercial based, teachers are less paid and low qualified in the lower class. The beginning stage of learning is the foundational facet where the child is keen to learn and the brain in the formative years absorbs most things and retains far a longer period.
The government aided schools have well paid teachers according to the scale of pay regulations and they take well qualified teachers. Why do the parents prefer the private schools and not the government one? Because, the impression given by the bygone teachers that convents are the best and still holds every root of the parents’ minds.
Tamil Nadu government under Justice Govindarajan Commission regularised the fee structure of the private management school in such a manner even the poor can join such schools. There is a wild cry that the government aided schools don’t function properly. It may be true. Let us have more right to information activists trained. Let us have more anti corruption squads formed within us.
Tamil Nadu government under Justice Govindarajan Commission regularised the fee structure of the private management school in such a manner even the poor can join such schools. There is a wild cry that the government aided schools don’t function properly. It may be true. Let us have more right to information activists trained. Let us have more anti corruption squads formed within us.
Let us join in genuine human rights organisation. Let us know how to conduct the public interest litigation for valid reasons without wasting the time of judiciary. Let us regulate our government aided schools properly and let our children learn the best of the English and not Hinglish.
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