Kendriya Vidyalaya Madurai School Online Library

Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV), Narimedu has become the first school in Madurai to operate a full-fledged online library, catering to the needs of thousands of students. Over the last one year, the number of visitors to the site (http://kv1madurailibrary.wordpress.com) has grown at a rapid pace to about 1.3 lakh. Most of the visitors accessed resource materials, e-books, reference material and other syllabi with the help of this library.

Good Move folks!!

Happy Independance Day 2011 - Celebrated in TVS Lakshmi Matriculation School, Madira

It is different outside and inside the nest it is different.

I had a totally different feeling when I was outside the school and when I went in for my daughter's function for Independence Day in TVS Lakshmi Matriculation School, Madurai. My daughter acted as "Bharath Maatha" in a stage show and she is studying UKG in this school.

I had a great feeling attending this function in which many kids performed lot of patriotic programmes. I was goosebumped by some actions by the kids and their performance and their ideas and concepts for Independence day.

There is no or very little patriotism outside and I was very impressed by the patriotism manifested by the children.

As an alumni of that school I was proud to be part of that school as well - Make it proud of me and Make me proud of it. TVS Lakshmi Matriculation Higher Secondary School, TVS Nagar, Madurai.

Don Bosco Madurai - Birthday function

It was a pleasurable moment on 16th August 2010 at Don Bosco, Madurai on the special occasion of the Birthday Anniversary of Don Bosco, Saint and the Founder of Salesian Congregation.

The celebration started with a Holy Mass in which the Salesians of Don Bosco and the children, youth and public participated. Rev. Fr. Arockiam, Administrator headed the celebration along with Fr. Sebastian Jacob, Head Master, Don Bosco Higher Secondary School and Vice Rector and the Salesians and Salesian cooperators. On the same day the Bible day celebration also was celebrated in Don Bosco, Madurai. The students of Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Madurai gathered for both the celebrations and participated and enjoyed in the events and cultural activities. An exhibition foot ball match was conducted. The present students and the Alumni of Don Bosco Higher Secondary School contested each other with a friendly spirit. On the whole, the day was everyone`s day for all whoever took part in all the celebrations.

From Bosco Information Service

what are the improvements needed in education in madurai?

We have already written about the Literate project in Madurai, in one of our previous articles. This project is for improving the education from the scratch.

However, there is another question - how to improve existing education in Madurai?
What is our education infrastructure today? Here is the education profile of Madurai

There are various improvement points to be considered -

1) There are colleges opened today with the motive of only profits in mind. On those days, schools and colleges were built with a motive of education in mind, but controversially these days colleges are started as a business. Money minded colleges, cannot provide great education.

Even parents are willing to provide lakhs to get their children engineering or medical degree. If they want a professional degree, they should get him study very well. Anyway, let us stick to the topic and I guess, we are moving away from the topic.

2) We need great teachers. Teachers are supposed to be highly respected people in the world. Teachers stand and all students sit in the chair, when a class is provided. Teachers stay at the same place, but the students get graduated and progress in their lives to go to the top. Hence, teacher profession is great and hats off to all the teachers! If you go to government schools, there are some teachers, who never teach, but they get hefty salaries - chitchat, do side business and never have children's education in mind. Teachers have to have vision in their mind. How do I want my children to progress? How do I inspire students to come up in life? How do I ignite the students? Teachers have to become inspiration to the students.

3) Comparing Montessori education to education in Madurai - Soft skills, social skills, thinking abilities has to be improved instead of getting the children memorizing the text books. Students has to be made understood about the meaning of the texts!

4) Reading habit has to be improved in Madurai. More corporation libraries has to be opened in Madurai and there has to be readers programme's for children. Reading habit is one great habit, if inculcated into the students, then you don't have to worry about anything. They will come up in life. If you ask any successful person or any entrepreneur about their background and hobbies - they would read lot of books.
We tried to open free libraries in the past, but we have put the project on hold for future. Once we have sufficient money, we would open Free Libraries in Madurai.

5) Inspiration and Motivation among children would help them in long run, apart from the usual text books.

6) Parents have to give extra time in their evenings and weekends for their children's education.

7) Mathematical, Language, personality and communication skills has to be improved in all respects.

This is enough for now, I believe. However, will continue this topic later with another article may be part-ii. This article was written upon request...