H. K. Primary Training College (HKPTC)

Friends, Today we are very much conscious about the qualitative improvement of elementary education. Teachers’ empowerment and teaching strategies have assumed to play an important role to improve the quality of primary education in society. I h he quality of primary education in society. I have some words of Sri Aurobindo: The Principles of Education: The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught. The teacher is not an instructor or task maker. He is a helper and guide. His business is to suggest and not to impose... The Second Principle is that the mind has to be consulted in its own growth. The idea of hammering the child into the shape desired by the parent or teacher is a barbarous and ignorant superstition. It is he himself who must be induced to expand in accordance with his own nature. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself. Principle of education is to work from the near to far, from that which is to that which shall be.... a free and natural growth is that condition of genuine development... Wish you all have a nice time and bright future at HKPTC. Mission: H. K. Primary Training College is an institute that can provide intense training to the prospective and aspirant teachers. Not only educating thousands of students but also natured the excellence in each and every student. It promote personal spiritual, moral and social development in the trainees. Objectives: Our trainees has to develop the skills and competencies in children for their adult life by equipping them to make independent decisions and moral choices. Trainees will have to prepare the children to be well-equipped to cope-up with the demands of ever changing society. Co-curricular Activities: We have cultural activities, Literary Activities, Sports Activities, Inter College Competitions, Blood Donation Programme, elocution competitions, Seminar on Yoga, National Flag-Salutation Ceremony, Quality improvement Programme, Guardian Conference, Educational Tour, Block Teaching, Lecture of versatile personalities, Visit to Historical, Educational and famous places during the year. Ahmedabad Education Society came into being in 1935 based on the draft prepared by G. V. Mavalankar. Anand Shankar Dhrue became its first President and Sheth Kastrubhai Lalbhai was nominated as the Treasurer. The men behind the mission to make Sardar's dream a reality were already reputed in their own right. Donations to build the new educational institutions would have poured in merely for the asking. But instead, these elite men took to the streets with a bag in hand, and made please to the wealthy Amdavadis, asking them to open their purse strings and donate freely. Kasturbhai went from donor to donor and spoke intently to each one of them. He did not just want their money. He wanted to convert philanthropists into passionate social reformers to change the face of Gujarat through education. As more people contributed to AES, it also became righer in terms of human resources and values.