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Sing and tell
Jaspal Bhatti

Education experts in Britain have concluded that it is easy to learn when you sing. They have launched a national singing programme ‘Sing up’ to help children learn songs.

Since passion for singing in our country is far ahead of that in other nations, we should have no difficulty adopting the British pattern. Imagine the Chief Minister of a state finding out who among his legislators is the best singer. The moment one says, "Sir I was adjudged the best singer during college," declares the Chief Minister, "Good! Appoint him the education minister". His secretary, who has some knowledge of musical instruments, could be attached to the minister.

The whole curriculum should be re-designed in such a way that every boring chapter could be made hummable. Students would be heard talking, "Arre yaar, tune Sonu Nigam ka modern periodic table suna hai? It’s really cool."

The other one would say, "I really liked the way Sunidhi Chauhan has sung Euclid’s Lemma and Pythagoras’ theorem." There would be many who would appreciate Mika and his models dancing on steamy Thermo Dynamic Principles. Headmasters and teachers should be chosen based on their performance in singing contests at various district levels.

Once a teacher asked a student to recite the table of two in the class. The boy started like this, "2 one’s are 2, 2 two’s are 4, 2 three’s are 6 ...ta.... tatain...tain...tan ......tain...tatan.....tain..."

The teacher interrupted, "What’s this...tain...tatan?"

He said, "Madam, I forgot the table but could only recall the tune."





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