A First Among Many - A Day spent in support of Cow Protection
Being an educator, I often think about the relevance of content we teach. The pedantic discourses of the classroom will have no relevance, if they are not applied or made relevant to real life. The tedious homily of economic laws is completely lost to students if they don’t see the phenomena occurring. When the discourses are taught in manner that is relevant and can be applied by the generation then only will they have any recall value. Else they will remain a hurdle in the mindless race for marks and GPA’s. Most often as I walked out of the classroom after a lesson, I would ask myself, “Is this enough?” and often I would be left with no answers. I often discussed ideas with my students on educational trips and outdoor sessions, we did come up with ideas, but for many reasons, they never saw the light of day. One of the ideas that had been germinating for many days was undertaking an event to educate the students on the relevance of cow protection in India. I checked with so...