What pitch did Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murty make to the finance minister for the betterment of children?
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00:00Value-based education we are not able to do there are no grandparents who can sit and talk about it
00:05Both husband and wife are working your teacher teach children AI
00:10Computer science mathematics, etc. But you are not making our children a good citizen a good character
00:16Value-based education we are not able to do the reason are many number one is there is a nuclear family
00:23There is no there are no grandparents
00:25You can sit and talk about it or teach there are both husband and wife are working there in a city or the cramped
00:34Schools, there are many reasons are there and it is very difficult to bring up children
00:39without value system because ultimately they do not become good citizens, even though they may be
00:45highly educated people
00:47Once I was working in a village in a school area and many parents and particularly mothers came and told me our children
00:54Don't listen to us. They don't read they are not interested in doing any other work. Is there any solution?
01:01I said there is no quick solution in that but let us experiment it and
01:05We built one large. It's a government school. It had a good toilets water facility midday meal always there
01:13So I told let us build one
01:15Big hall air-conditioned hall because it was a hot area. It's a warm area and there I told keep kept some children book stories
01:24And I called the volunteers and mothers along with the teachers and I told them look
01:30Children mind is like a wet wall if you teach them properly good values at this time through stories
01:37Then it is possible to hold their attention and they may learn by this and we give them little material
01:45And I will send them after one year
01:47The things are so different after one year because there are many mothers who would like to
01:53Contribute in the afternoon time. There are some volunteers
01:56They would like to do this that give them an opportunity because children were attracted to the air-conditioned room in summer
02:02They never went out. They came to the school went to the
02:06Hall where they could do a lot of other indoor activities like chess like stitching
02:12Dancing and
02:14Music all these along with that good value system. That is good story
02:20books and storytelling and children did learn and I could see there are a lot of paintings on the
02:26Walls and children started writing also their own stories when you give teachers training
02:32We always say that they should be BA BA MA MED
02:36But we will never emphasize on converting the difficult situation
02:40Difficult subject in the form of stories
02:44And convince them and that is the reason I feel we should have
02:50storytelling sessions in the school compulsory and we should also have teachers training inclusive of
02:58Storytelling we always go and see what is there in the western country tell that stories
03:02No, because it is not correlating to our culture and may I request our
03:08Finance minister that pride particularly primary education and in higher education
03:14Not higher education in high school level in until that they require this new art
03:20introducing in their life and
03:22government of India should give little more funding to the
03:27Building a room a classroom with air-conditioned or a fan depending on the situation