Imphal, December 22 2008: The State Government has already started taking up necessary measures to ensure best education at the lowest rate, Education Minister L Jayantakumar has stated.

Speaking as chief guest at the inaugural function of a three-day long training programme of primary school teachers on understanding primary school students at the mini-auditorium of RIMS here today, the Education Minister said that today everyone knows that the system of education in Manipur has failed.

The most glaring example of this is that none of the teachers working in Government schools like to send their children to the schools in which they are teaching, instead they prefer private schools for education of their children.

It is but natural that every parents like their children to be the best and provide them with the best education.

But the parents do not have faith on prevailing system of education in the State and the teachers working in Govt schools do not command the respect of the people.

Why it is so ?, the Minister asked.

In order to rectify the education system which has been plagued with irregularities for so long, the State Govt has started promotion of non-residential model school and residential model school in the State, the Minister said, adding that the teachers should also have a sense of dedication in performing their duties and contribute their mite in the efforts being made by the Govt.Observing that the strength of a Nation depends on its school education, the Minister admitted that the Govt alone would not be able to accomplish the task of improving the quality of school education.

So every individual should play their part in this regard.

Director of RIMS Dr L Fimate and Commissioner of Education (S) Shambhu Singh were respectively president and guest of honour of the inaugural function of the three-day long training programme being organised jointly by Dept of Education (S), Government of Manipur; Dept of Clinical Psychology, RIMS and Department of Psychiatry, RIMS.

In his presidential address, Dr Fimate pointed out that the most important quality that the Primary school teachers should possess is the ability to motivate the students.

Recalling about his school education, Dr Fimate said that in the Government School in which he had his formative education, a teacher who had passed only class VI had taught the students.

But the level of dedication and the ability to motivate the students that the teacher possessed was beyond comparison to the present teachers who have passed BA, MA or B Ed.

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