New Delhi: The Director of NCERT, D P Saklani, has expressed concern over parents’ fascination with English-medium schools, despite many lacking trained teachers, calling it “no less than suicide” as government schools now offer quality education. During an interaction with PTI editors at the agency’s headquarters, the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) chief highlighted that cramming content in English has led to knowledge loss among children and distanced them from their roots and culture.
“Parents are obsessed with English-medium schools, preferring to send their children there even when there are no teachers or they lack sufficient training. This approach is no less than suicide, and that is why the new national education policy emphasizes teaching in the mother tongue,” Saklani stated.
“Why should teaching be based on the mother tongue? If we don’t understand our own mother and our roots, how will we understand anything else? The multilingual…