In Quest of Creating Ecofriendly Generation COUNTDOWN
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good afternoon i hope you all are fine
today
as you all are the students i’ll talk
about the impact of teaching teaching as
we all know is
immensely
impactful incident in the world
teaching comes in different forms and
from different resources we receive
teaching from families
from teachers from the surroundings and
from nature itself
i would like to disseminate
one of my loveliest childhood memory
with you
and it’s about
gardening in my family
my mother
who is a teacher in profession
assigned us taught us
allocated us with
some of the responsibility
and
she taught us how to be very much
careful
about the trees about the plants about
the surroundings
she
allocated very
little individual
garden for me and for my other five
siblings we are six in total
and
she
made us responsible for
planting
seeds
for watering those plants
for
putting uh fertilizers
and so on
thus
plant cells become
our part of emotion
we are very happy
when flowers bloomed
we are overhelmed
when there are the fruits and vegetables
in our garden but well
we are very sad when we found the wind
was so strong
to harm
to our plants
so this sort of
grooming has given
a
set of basic
to us
and we have had
an unconditional love
for the plants for the environment and
this sort of
intimacy with nature is very much
visible in all the behavior and
activities of all of our sibling and
thus
when
my younger sister
is
working as the
pharmacist
she has become one of the most
empathetic pharmacists in the global
context
coming back to the current scenario
we can hear
some buzzing words
like go green
save the environment
eco-friendly equipment
eco-friendly apparatus eco-friendly
attitude
eco-friendly product etc
as we know
different community all to the world
and different distinguished personality
they are actually trying their level
best to create awareness
so that
the common people can be responsive
and can be respectful to the spirit of
nature still they are struggling
they are still working to create this
sort of awareness so that this
environment can really be saved
my next approach
is about my situation
i am
living
in the most polluted city of the world
i have seen dhaka
to transform into the desert of building
and houses from a very beautiful green
city
over the time over the years actually
climate
has become drastically been changed
and
industrialization actually
has its impact
for
almost two centuries and we are to
actually experience
this sort of impact in first hand
now being a teacher
of english language and literature
i had the plan
how to contribute
in saving the environment
that is around me that is around us all
that is around the world
i have very limited range
even though
i had the
affinity feeling from my childhood for
nature
and over the time this connection has
intensively increased
so from that sort of social
responsibility
while
i taught in the classroom to the
students majoring english
i usually teach them
different sort of
literature of different era particularly
when i go for the romantic poetry
especially
i do teach them in such a way so that
their learning may not be confined
within the remembering or understanding
level only
i tried my level best
and i am still trying my level best to
take their learning
to the creating and evaluating level
that means they must have a sort of
sustainable learning
and as you know when i teach my students
in classroom i would like to try my
level best
not to confine myself within remembering
and understanding level
rather i take care so that i can take
their learning up to the creative
and evaluating level
so that learning can be sustainable
whatever they learn they can remember
those they can
intensively
internalize those essence
and thus it would be sustainable
and wherever and whenever they would
like to utilize this knowledge whenever
they would like to create knowledge out
of the existing one they can be able to
utilize their knowledge
so
while
teaching
a piece for example the rhyme of ancient
medina perhaps most of you have read you
have
ideas about the story when i taught
these in the classroom setting
i really teach for the first time within
the classroom but after teaching these
i give my students the authority
to play the role
to dramatize that i gave them the
wholehearted authority so that they can
independently plan
their costume
their segment
the cost
the cost as they wish
and they somehow plan the whole
and in group
they can perform
in real life scenario in the platform
like this whatever they have learned
from the classroom from the reading of
books
thus
whenever they are actually
planning to do so to materialize their
knowledge into skill and through
attitude through performance
they can really have the essence
lifelong
from that story
when my learners got the message that
that mariner who started his journey
with
a favorable condition
in a very positive way
after committing a crime to the nature
he was punished so severely
and nature took revenge upon him
the whole
atmosphere from converted from congenial
to
drastic condition and he had to suffer
very severely
and after suffering a lot there came a
sort of understanding in his mind
and he could realize his guilt for
committing that sort of crime
and after
what he could get back his
reconciliation
and
he was his crime was redempt
and he came back with the mental peace
and happiness he had earlier
while my students with this sort of
learning
will
start their journey in practical life
perhaps none will do
any harm to the nature
remembering the sufferings of the
ancient mariner
while i teach wordsworth to my students
i try to introduce my students with
wordsworth’s concept of nature what’s
what says
one nature can be the
friend philosopher and guide for the
man
nature can give you whatever necessity
you will have
that means all the fundamental
requirements and needs of a man can be
fulfilled if you really come back
leaving all the temptation of
materialistic life and as you reached at
the lap of nature at the generosity
and the freedom liberty of the nature
you will have all the tranquility you
will have all the happiness you will
have a very peaceful
life amidst the nature
when i taught my students the poems of
matthew arnold
i have disseminated
the ideas
of that oxford caller in scholar gypsy
who left
oxford university
and
went back to the pastoral setting to
respond the call
from insight
about the nature
from people very common people who are
calling him to disseminate knowledge to
be knowledgeable right and
he really got
peace there
he got
the meaningful life there so well i
really don’t want all of us to be back
to the primitive setting of life like
the scholar gypsy i would like you all
to have a combination
like our this very stage today
here we can see a synergy right there is
technical support there is a symbol of
urbanization but well there is nature
around us right so it’s a wonderful
harmony
where life is here
we have all the facilities of modern
life along with these we have nature
unconditional love oxygen from nature
endless greenery hair can give me
endless joy and happiness
once again if we go back to matthew
arnold
in his poem doverbit
he observed all the distressed condition
of humanity and his soul cries out when
he saw people suffering
he
shared his idea
with an analogy
he said the moon
moon is shining
in the both coast the french coast and
the
english coast the moon is not dividing
its beam
so why the man we are dividing ourselves
which really
are causing different sort of
devastating incident very much harmful
for human for nature
so there is a solution that matthew
arnold has given us
he said
a love let us be true to one another
just one thing to do
just let us be true to one another
actually we really don’t need to do need
to take all the responsibility upon our
shoulder
we just need to be true to the person
beside you
if you are true to him if he is true to
him and if he is true to her
the whole world will be filled with
happiness with peace there is none to
harm other
there is none to harm environment there
will be no jealousy
no
enviousness and
now the world is full of unhappiness
where there is no certitude for the
distress humanity
so
we can be just energized with the
essence of literature
and just
last note
while i am teaching
and my colleagues all over the world
actually teaching literature and
creating a very conscious community
we really don’t think that
the conscious soul can intentionally do
any harm to the nature and while they
will grow up
will they will spread all over the world
eventually they will be the mother
they will be the guardian they will be
the caregiver
and they will disseminate the essence of
literature
all through the world and that conscious
community can never commit anything
subversive to the mother nature
thank you thank you very much