Eliminate fear from students’ mind: Sisodia to teachers

NEW DELHI: The Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday exhorted the teachers and educators to eliminate fear from the minds of the students while teaching and imparting education to them.

Sisodia said this while inaugurating the daylong Capacity Building Programme on “Elimination of Corporal Punishments” organized by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.

The programme aimed at providing in-depth understanding about the different issues related to corporal punishment, legal provisions against corporal punishments and to empower teachers in broad context and perspective of corporal punishment.

The Deputy CM underlined the need for creating an atmosphere of affection, wherein teachers and students may develop an understanding - teachers to teach and students to learn. “Only then, we could achieve the goal of getting real and value-based education for overall personality development of the students,” he added. Sisodia said, “Almost all the leading IT or software companies across the world have Indians as their employees, but none as employers. We as employees get salaries and are satisfied, whereas, the owners get dividends life long or for generations, this is due to the fear or lack of confidence in oneself.”

“We fear God, we fear exam and we have turned out to be a fearful society. Corporal punishment leads to fear and needs to be replaced with love & understanding of the students,” he exhorted.