In Kannada a person is said to be susankrita if he/she is cultured. Opposite word is asanskrita. I am not debating who is susankrita here.
But the current fight going on about German v/s Sanskrit brought back the old memories of my school days.
Those days 35 years back, a school child - in fact high school child could either study full course sanskrit or half course sanskrit. In full course, you had to study more of Sanskrit grammarr, and you had to write all answers in Sanskrit.
We were half course Sanskrit students and we studied first language as 100 marks Kannada and 50 marks Sanskrit. We wrote most of our Sanskrit paper answers in Kannada. So even today my knowledge of this ancient language is half (baked). Did I say half? Only thing I remember is गच्छति गच्छतः गच्छन्ति
There were also students who opted for Hindi or Kannada instead of Sanskrit. But the main attraction of Sanskrit was marks. We could score in the range of 90s here.
I don't know the status today. But on the one hand, every child needs to study some amount of Sanskrit to understand our mother tongues better. But if studying German helps a child to get into German universities, then that is good too. But ultimately the choice must be child's not government's, I feel.
But the current fight going on about German v/s Sanskrit brought back the old memories of my school days.
Those days 35 years back, a school child - in fact high school child could either study full course sanskrit or half course sanskrit. In full course, you had to study more of Sanskrit grammarr, and you had to write all answers in Sanskrit.
We were half course Sanskrit students and we studied first language as 100 marks Kannada and 50 marks Sanskrit. We wrote most of our Sanskrit paper answers in Kannada. So even today my knowledge of this ancient language is half (baked). Did I say half? Only thing I remember is गच्छति गच्छतः गच्छन्ति
There were also students who opted for Hindi or Kannada instead of Sanskrit. But the main attraction of Sanskrit was marks. We could score in the range of 90s here.
I don't know the status today. But on the one hand, every child needs to study some amount of Sanskrit to understand our mother tongues better. But if studying German helps a child to get into German universities, then that is good too. But ultimately the choice must be child's not government's, I feel.
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