What alternative views of education do you find in The English Teacher? Or, “The English Teacher clearly builds up within its narrative an anti colonial critique”. Discuss. Or, Write critically on Narayan’s criticism of the mainstream education system in British India.

What alternative views of education do you find in The English Teacher?

Or,

“The English Teacher clearly builds up within its narrative an anti colonial critique”. Discuss.

Or,

Write critically on Narayan’s criticism of the mainstream education system in British India.

Ans: - Set against the background of British India, R. K. Narayan’s The English Teacher undoubtedly portrays the harsh realities of the running education system which the British ruler forcefully imposed on the Indians. In fact, a painter of Indian spirit and aspirations, Narayan did never support the colonial educational policy which had nothingness in its agenda. He truly realized its mission of producing the English knowing clerk and this novel is his but anti-colonial reaction against all the socio-literary suppositions of such westerners as Thomas Hardy or Rudyard Kipling. It exposes the ironies of not only the English but also the general European literary traditions and creates a separate identity for itself through the projections of Indian traditions and values as alternative cultures. Here lies the nationalist perspective of the novel.

            The novel opens with an account of dissatisfaction of Krishna, the English teacher of Albert Mission College, with his professional life. This dissatisfaction comes from his routine life of teaching the something in college every day. He realizes that he is teaching not because he loves his subject or the students but that his students may secure high marks in the examination and he may be saved from adverse remarks of his chief at the end of the year. He points out:

            “I did not do it out of love for them or for Shakespeare, but only out of love for myself… If they paid me the same hundred rupees… for tearing up paper bits everyday for a few hours I would perhaps be doing it with equal fervour”.......

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