SANJAY KUMAR Vs. STATE OF J AND K

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Rehbar in the traditional concept means a person who enlightens, illumines, guides, paves the path of light, unfolds the bright horizon amidst the encircling gloom, expands his aura enigmatically reaching the true follower and also the one who transfers his sense of originality, duty of accountability and progressive creativity to the dutious disciple leaving his lively foot prints on the sands of time. If the ancient scriptures are to be taken into consideration, then a "Rehbar can be put on the same pedestal as a Guru was put in the Shashtras making him equivalent to guide. In turn, making the disciples follow him with reverence and acts of veneration.

(2.) The dictionary meaning of the words "Reh" and Rahbar as found in Standard Twentieth Century Dictionary is as under:

(3.) The destiny of this nation is now being shaped in class rooms. In a world based on science and tenchnology, it is the education that determines the level of prosperity, welfare and security of the nation and of the people who constitute it. To some people what is of importance is the number of schools, the number of scholars, question of fees, the co-relation of private and Government schools. At the same time, the general feeling is the same as was commented upon by Locke; "Schools fit us for University rather than for the world. "Huxley was of the view that "Education should enable an average boy of fifteen or sixteen to read and write his own language with ease and accuracy and with a sense of literary excellence derived from the study of our classic writers; to have a general acquaintance with the history of his own country and with the great laws of social existence; to have acquired the rudiments of the physical and psychological sciences and a fair knowledge of elementary arithmetic and geometry. He should have obtained an acquaintance with logic rather by example than by precept; while the acquirement of the elements of music and drawing should have been pleasure rather than work." There is also a feeling that the great mistake in education is the worship of book-learning the confusion of instruction and education. The system strains the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing and interminable intricacies of spelling. They are oppressed by columns of dates, lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to mind and convey no near relation to their daily wants and occupation. Education should be a harmonious development of mind. It begins in the nursery and then at school but does not end there. It continues in life. Every person has two educations-one which he received from others and one which he gives himself, which is more important. The first education i.e. in the matter of receiving education from others, an effort has been made through the present scheme i.e. Rehbar-e-Taleem now formulated. It is hoped that this education which is received by the young children would prepare them for much more important education which they are to give to themselves throughout the later period of their lives.