The city school principals have come back with very useful tips given to them by Dr APJ Kalam, former President of India, during the 15th National Conference of Sahodaya School Complex held by CBSE at Bhopal recently. Majority of principals from Punjab attended this crucial conference. RS Gill, principal of Guru Nanak Public School, and director of Ludhiana Schools complex, said, "Each word told by Dr Kalam was inspirational. I have read his speech about a dozen times and also distributed some copies to my school teachers. I will soon get the feedback from them in this regard and would implement his suggestions in the school."He said that at this conference, Kalam spoke at length about "My school will transform my students with knowledge and value systems." Inspired by his views about vision, Gill said, "As per Dr Kalam, the vision should be to make a beautiful school, generating righteous youth, happy youth who are professionally sound and morally upright. The vision does not means big building having big laboratory and big infrastructure." Kalam also said that there was a need for paradigm shift in thinking in the evaluation process.Harmeet Kaur, principal of Nankana Sahib Public School, Gill Road, said, "He has covered many aspects of education, which are really motivating for the administrators as well as teachers. It has a lot many things for the students and teachers also. I will distribute copies of this speech to my staff to motivate them."She said that his words like,"There is nothing like a good student, average student or poor student. The whole school and teaching system is involved in generating students who perform the best. This race of teachers and teacher of teachers should multiply." His speech, which was indeed a part of his sheer experience, also read like, "As a child grows, his smile starts disappearing in his teens due to anxiety about the future." He asked these principals a question: "Can a principal see this dynamics of smiles of the child and preserve smile on their faces when they complete their school education." Jaskiran Kaur, principal of Amrit Indo-Canadian Academy Ladiyan, said, "His speech was full of wisdom." She said, "His quote about a Greek teacher "Give me a child for seven years, afterwards, let the God or devil take the child. They cannot take the child" was wonderful and his suggestion to produced morally upright and righteousness among youth centralizes his whole speech.Kalam also gave eleven points oath to the teachers for the holistic development of children.
