Women Teachers Day;A tribute to savitri bai phule
3rd January To Be Celebrated As Women Teachers Day T here is no better way to pay tribute to the supreme name, Savitribai Phule, other than declaring her birthday as Women Teachers Day. This day will be celebrated in the State similar to the Teachers’ Day remembering teacher and former President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Savitribai was the first female teacher of the first women’s school in India and was also considered as the pioneer of modern Marathi poetry. In 1852, she opened a school for Untouchable girls. Several have wondered why the “Teacher’s day” is not celebrated on the birthday of Savitribai Phule, the lady who started first ever school for the downtrodden. She was the first Dalit women, in-fact first women whose poems got noticed in the British Empire. Savitribai Phule was the mother of modern poetry stressing upon the necessity of English and Education through her poems. During the yester years when even a shadow of untouchables was considered impure and w...