An eye opening message from a science teacher Varun Kumar:
“I teach Physics and Mathematics. I have attended your lectures and have been teaching Physics to children through lecturing in Punjabi. I have seen very good results among children by this. By teaching science through mother tongue, I myself have started feeling like being a true being. Thank you very much. I teach Physics as a tutor in a government school in Ludhiana and teach Mathematics to M.Sc students at my coaching centre. The children who came to me were from government schools and because of not knowing English well. they used to consider themselves as incompetent. But I attended one of your lectures few years back at the school in Pakhoval village and since then my method of teaching have changed. I tell the children that English is not the only means to be a scientist; we can rather learn each science of the world without English. My students can tell a lot in Punjabi about any aspect of Physics and am in joy that I am producing learned scientists and learned doctors. My students won’t be the persons who are engaged in the rat race of speaking English. I teach Main Topology and Field Theory too in Punjabi and you would be glad to know that my M.Sc. students have continuously topped in the Punjab University for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014, because only those students are able to understand Topology who learn it in Punjabi. Joga ji, I have also taught Physics to Convent students. Truly, I have never seen children in such a bad shape. What are they to know about Physics, these English medium students don’t know even English better than us; I myself, though, have studied through Punjabi medium till 10th standard. I will become a true companion of you in your fight. I will devote my life to teach and make understand each science in Punjabi. Joga ji, my soul shivers when I see children going in an English medium school bus. I knew something was being wrong, but I discovered the right direction from your lecture when I listened to you in the Pakhovaal village school. Joga ji, you will surely be successful in your goal, because you are teaching people how to be real humans. By giving them their mother tongue, you are saving them from living orphaned lives. My sentiments also go to these Convent and English medium school children. Joga ji! Let us save them too!”
Dr. Joga Singh’s documents on language issues can be read from:
http://punjabiuniversity.academia.edu/JogaSingh/papers
One video in Hindi can be watched from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHUfdRS2MWE&feature=youtu.be
And three in Punjabi can be watched from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8w6xNrCP88, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4njNvR4UI0&feature=share and
Contact: Dr. Joga Singh- 09915709582, jogasinghvirk@yahoo.co.in Varun Kumar- 09876756466