"The
only true teacher is he who can immediately come down to the level of
the student, and transfer his soul to the student's soul and see
through the students's eyes and hear through his ears and under stand
through his mind. Such a teacher can relly teach and none else."
- Swami Vivekananda
About
the campus:
The
multi-campus Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University has its headquarters
at Belur Math, Howrah, and W.B. It is declared by the UGC in January
2005. This University has its Faculty of Disability Management and Special
Education (FDMSE) in the Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Coimbatore, and
Tamil Nadu at its International Human Resource development centre of the
disabled IHRDC campus. Essentially this Faculty is a centre for preparing
teachers in the field of special education. What is
special education? It
is a course of practical and theoretical training in special subjects such
as rehabilitation of disabled persons, visual impairment, hearing impairment,
mental retardation, Sign Language Interpretation, Community Based rehabilitation,
computer applications for the disabled, etc. Those who undergo this course
become special teachers or special educators. After successful completion
of the courses the relevant certificates are issued by this University.
Then they go for serving the disabled as field workers, special educators
(class-room teachers for the disabled in government or private institutions
for the disabled) etc. Many of the trained students go for postgraduate
and research studies in the above special subjects.
Profile of
the organisation:
Ramakrishna
Math and Ramakrishna Mission are twin organizations forming the core of
a worldwide spiritual movement (known as Ramakrishna Movement or Vedanta
Movement). The Ramakrishna Mission is a registered society in which monks
of Ramakrishna Math and lay devotees cooperate in conducting various types
of social service mainly in India. It was founded by Sri Ramakrishna's chief
apostle, Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), one of the foremost thinkers and
religious leaders of the present age, who is regarded as 'one of the main
moulders of the modern world', in the words of an eminent western scholar,
A. L. Basham.
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