THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Gandhi Smarak Nidhi (KGSN) has given shape to an innovative educational package for student groupsto motivate them to think and react to the existing educational system in the country.A session on a selected topic, video clippings, talks, interaction, quiz and discussions will be part of the educational package, which was inaugurated by District Panchayat president Remani P Nair on Wednesday at Gandhi Bhavan here.A student group from a VHSE school took part in the first session held on Wednesday morning. The day’s topic was ‘Gandhian idea of schooling and education’.Giving the introductory speech, KGSN working chairman N Radhakrishnan said that it was the three ‘R’s, ‘reading, writing and arithmetic’, that were prominent in the field of education now. However, Gandhiji had conceived a system, here three ‘H’s are important. They being ‘hand, head and heart’. “Hand is the creative tool. Gandhiji wanted children to use their hands to develop their skills, plant saplings, play in the soil, learn the importance of earning and so on. But nowadays, children are told not to play in soil. Head is the seat of intellect, where the thinking is done and heart, where the feelings originate. Gandhiji said that an educational system where the three meet, where children make, think and feel in a humane way, which help them grow up into positive human beings, is the perfect system for India. However, we are a long way to reach there, though many have started realising that the existing education system need to change,’’ Radhakrishnan said. Later, speaking to Express, Radhakrishnan said that Gandhi Bhavan wanted it the educational package be developed into a daily programme, where student groups could select an educational topic or content which could be developed into a participatory-interactive-discussion.“We don’t want to impose a theme on them; rather, they come up with a topic. The session would last three-four hours within which we would give them a brief of our Gandhi Museum, a film on Gandhiji or of nationalimportance/personalities would be shown, the day’s topic would be discussed, following which an interaction would take place,” he said. Though Gandhi Bhavan wants it to be a daily affair, it would remain a weekly exercise for the time being.
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