Re: KDA report on education

["MV" <maxv@vsnl.com>]

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> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, MV wrote:
>  >  On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Padmanabha Rao wrote:
>  >  Yes, language is not a knowledge in itself (perhaps it is an
>  >  information
>  >  in itself). I think it is a knowledge by itself.
>  >
>  > So, assuming knowledge is culture[d], language is also culture[d].
>
>  I agree with you, knowing anything is knowledge, so in that
>  sense knowing a language is also knowledge, and definitely
>  language is part of culture, but culture is much more.
>
> I would say language *is* knowledge; distinct from 'knowing a
language'.
>
> So all culture is simply language. Kill the language and we kill the
> corresponding culture. Create a language and you create a distinct
> culture.
>
>  If anyone want to influence culture it should be by example.
>  Let members of KDA, Ministers, MLA's, Bureaucrats enroll their
>  children/grand children in the nearest govt. run Kannada
>  medium schools, i am sure lot of people will follow them.
>
> This is looking away from the problem. KDA, ministers, b'crats don't
> count
> much. Their example needn't be. It's their choice. But what they
should
> not try to do is abuse the power vested in them and kill things. The
> States in India, unfortunately, are demarcated on linguistic basis.
> Perhaps if that wasn't the case, things would never have come to such
a
> pass as to necessitate a drastic legislation that provides for
> maintaining the languages.



Are you suggesting that members of KDA, Ministers,
Bureaucrats *can have choice* of sending their children/grand
children to english medium schools and then they *can deny*
the same fundamental right to other citizens of India?

This is exactly what we call *Caste System* isn't it?
Does this mean KDA is actually CDA?



>But those folks have been killing it, as you have been
> saying, by making all higher education available only in English.
That's
> a
> complex problem. I don't know the solution. But I want all languages
to
> be
> alive regardless because that provides for greater welfare in the end.

> Is
> that debatable ?
>
>
>  But if they send their own children/grand children to English medium
>  schools and recommend/force the people in the village to enroll
> children
>  in Kannada medium school, is that right?  What do you say?
>
> As I said, the 'crasies don't matter much as long as they stick to not

> wasting or abusing the power invested in them.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Padmanabha



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