Last
evening I was watching some senior Dzongkha teachers, who were chosen for a
study tour to India, speak on BBS. I was moved by the sort of gratitude that
these teachers show to the authorities for the opportunity given to them. And
almost all of them agreed that such study tours would expose them to diverse
cultures and be one of great learning experiences! Of course, there is no doubt
about it! These teachers have never been sent on any training abroad. Some of
them have been teaching for more than 20 years.
Towards
the end, we were also given opinions from the coordinators in the ministry, who
also agreed that such tours would be very useful to the Zhungkha language
teachers. But if that was the case why haven’t we done it before? Was it
irrelevant back then? I find lack of budget a terrible and unacceptable excuse!
And
last night I could not sleep. Rather my sleep was disturbed by the realization
that there are countless teachers or other civil servants or people who work in
…