Abstract:
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and remains there undigested, all your life. We must have life building, man making, character building, assimilating fine ideas and making them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.
Swami Vivekanand
The task of building an enlightened, strong and prosperous nation rests on the shoulders of its children who are to be cherished, nurtured and developed with tenderness and care, education has always played this important role and has thereby emerged as a natural characteristic of human societies. It has contributed to the shaping of the destinies of societies in all the phases of their development and has itself never ceased to develop. It has been the torch bearer of humanity's most noble ideals. In this sense, as an agent for social change, education necessarily reflects its main ethos, aspirations and concerns. Hence education is a life long process.
"Language is a city to building of which every human being brought a stone".
R. W. Emerson
Language learning at the primary stage is crucial to not only meaningful learning in all the subject areas but also to the leamer's emotional, cognitive and social development. New entrants with poor language background remain poor
learners and poorer performers in all areas unless specially helped in language skills. Failure to teach language skills properly and adequately in the early years will lead to difficulties in learning subsequently through the upper primary, the secondary stages. Language education has the greater potential as a means to develop, progressively through various stages, attitudes and values related to all the core components by incorporating appropriate themes and adopting suitable teaching learning strategies.
