Each One Teach One: Spreading The Light Of Education

Once there was a town called Ignorance. In the town there was no school; in fact the people were unknown about the tern ‘education’. In that town people had ample money, because a gold mine was there near to that. The owner of the gold mine used to give handsome money to all the laborers and thus they had everything in their possession. Everything was fine there unless a businessman from the nearby town visited Ignorance. The business became astonished by witnessing the large amount of money that the people of the town were earning.

The businessman was very clever and thus prepared a plan to deceive the people of the town. When the businessman was making the plan, the daughter of the gold mine owner came from the big city to visit Ignorance. She understood the plan of the businessman and thus told her father about that. The mine owner realized that because of their lack of education, outsiders were trying to deceive them. Thus the mine owner stopped all the dealing with the businessman and decided to open up a school in the town. His daughter started teaching the kids of the town and thus within few years a good portion of the population became educated. The adult groups also started taking interest in educational activities and thus classes for them had also been started.

Soon the name of the town was also changed to Knowledge. It was from a small spark that the light of education spread in the whole town of Knowledge. Education is like a flame of fire that needs a medium to be spread. In this 21st century also, there are thousands of people who are still ignorant of the world of knowledge. Many factors work for their situation. One of the reasons is the economical backwardness. Many children leave the school even before completing their basic schooling. Though India is developing in quite a fast pace, there are still millions of people in the country who don’t want to send their children to the schools. Though the government has taken many initiatives to ensure basic education for all children, these initiatives also don’t seem to become fruitful because of lack of public consciousness. Many modern schools have launched a project called ‘Each One Teach One’ under which the higher class students get engaged in teaching the students who are either from the economically backward section or have some disabilities.

As far as poverty eradication programs go, the government has been working on trying to get ahead of this problem since the British sun set on our country. The government as well as various NGOs has been working on solving the seemingly insurmountable problem of how we can eradicate illiteracy in India for both children and adults. In this regard, the project of ‘Each One Teach One’ plays a very important role. The Teach India Foundation was the first to take up this project as a part of making India a 100% literate state in the world.