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Eminent educationist S.S. Rajagopalan, who was portion of the committee that formulated the Samacheer Kalvi (Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education) strategy nether the DMK authorities led by erstwhile Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, died successful Chennai precocious connected Tuesday. He was 95.
His assemblage has been handed implicit for aesculapian probe to Sri Ramachandra Medical College successful Porur.
Beginning his vocation successful the 1950s, Rajagopalan declined occupation offers astatine the past Imperial Bank of India and the civilian services to prosecute teaching. He started retired arsenic a mathematics teacher and retired arsenic the headmaster of Sarvajana Higher Secondary School successful Coimbatore.
He dedicated his beingness to championing equitable education, acquisition successful parent tongue, and neighbourhood schools. He was besides a subordinate of the method committee of the All India Forum for Right Education. He fought for the rights of students and teachers.
Speaking to The Hindu in 1997, Rajagopalan said: “Four maxims should motivate each teachers. Every kid is educable; No 2 children are alike; each teacher is an eternal learner; and it is the teacher who has to germinate a strategy to cater to each idiosyncratic learner.”
State Platform for Common School System – Tamil Nadu wide caput P.B. Prince Gajendra Babu said: “He had large religion successful students and pupil movements, and firmly believed that students would triumph adjacent acquisition opportunities for the radical of India arsenic their right.”
In a station connected X, School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi said, “The demise of the elder educationist is simply a large nonaccomplishment to the tract of education. He was 1 who emphasised that introspection does not simply measure learning. It besides evaluates teaching. While guiding pioneering projects, helium ne'er hesitated to critique them and ever stood for the payment of students.”
Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu, who was the School Education Minister during the deliberations connected Samacheer Kalvi, took to X to condole his demise.
“S.S. Rajagopalan was not lone an fantabulous teacher and educationist, but his societal outlook continues to service arsenic an inspiring illustration for today’s generation,” helium said.
