Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Gujarati is also one of main subject - not an optional

In routine we generally do not pay attention to the language we speak - specially true for mother tongue. On one side we always get hammered by statement like "Gujarati is dying" but that is a HARDCORE LIE. No language dies just because some people say it loudly. 

Language lives till our generation maintains Gujaratism. The matter of worry is that what kind of standard we are maintaining for this "ism".

All parents always wish that their child should study in "English" medium and I have seen during parents meeting they ask, " how is my child in Science, Maths and English ? Nobody ask, how is my child in Gujarati or Hindi? Why?

I have even observed that so called educationalist used to say, Gujarati can be taught by any teacher like Social study teacher can teach Gujarati. I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH THIS PRACTICE. Do you believe this? 

Let us make it clear to all educationalist that "Capability of reading Gujarati do not make anyone eligible to teach Gujarati". Gujarati can be taught only by a person who knows history of language, having grammar clarity and beauty as well as appropriate usage of language. Why the hell University is giving degree like B.A. and M.A. with Literature. These Gujarati post graduates must be knowing much more about language then other subject's post graduates. Isn't it? 

Our language expertise -  like selection and use of correct words develops our expression efficiency.

One question to all friends - If somebody misspell our name in English we ask them to correct but same thing we do not follow for Gujarati. Why ?

Why મિતેષ and મીતેશ is acceptable to us? I must say second "Mitesh" is wrong please correct it.

ILL, KILL AND SKILL - Difference of one alphabet can change the meaning entirely. In a same way one thought - a sparkling thought can change anyone's entire life.





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