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| A teacher sharing her experiences |
“The workshop was without doubt a success
but will the teachers make use of the methods explained here?” was the response
of Ms. Manjula, a teacher who was representing an alternate school in Mysore.
She was sharing her views in the valedictory function on the three days
workshop for teachers at the RMNH. Ms.
Hemalatha. S of Amrita Vidyalaya felt that the workshop was an eye opener for
many teachers and these efforts of Hasiru Hejje must grow as ‘Vamana hejje’.
The days guest Mr. Jade Gowda, Asst,
Professor in Botany at the Forestry College at Ponnampete in Coorg.
Accompanying the Scientist in-charge of the museum Mr. Yogendra and the
education Staff Mrs. Mujeba Khanum, on the dais felt happy for such humble
efforts are still on. Hailing from the Soliga
Tribal community he is the fist person to reach university and complete his
Ph.D. Being the first generation of his community to meet up with the civilized
world and take to their life styles, he had many ups and downs. He was one of
the six tribal children playing upon the forest trees who were pulled down by
the famous Doctor Mr. Sudarshan in the eighties to be educated in the modern
ways. He narrated his illustrative journey from childhood professor hood. He
recalled how wonder struck he was when he saw a tar road for the first time
from above his father shoulder. “I wondered why and who made this scar on
Mother Earth!”
His deep interest in the forests prompted
him to choose Forestry as a subject to Agricultural sciences for his carrier. His
academic excellence has made him be part of the noble job of putting across a
hundred Range Forest officers into service across Karnataka. He has presented
several papers in universities across the globe and stands as a testimony to
the commitment of a good teacher and a student as well. Apart from being a good
teacher himself, he is an active promoter of Nature related activities within
the campus. He has a special interest in rescuing wild Orchids. Being up the
Western Ghats, a home for hundreds of orchids, he picks up every one of them
thrown astray by the wood cutters. Orchids when strewn on the forest floor
become orphans; they don’t survive at lower heights. He does the rescue
operations along with students.
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| Dr. Jade Gowda addressing the teachers |
In his very emotional speech, he humbly
requested the teachers to give ample opportunity to children to involve in the
every day mysteries in Nature. Text books are always there and can be read
anytime! He felt that small deeds will carry a long way and in the present day
context of rampant use of Natural resources and the basic raw materials
becoming a commodity to be rationed there is no other go he said.
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