Savitribai Phule · Sanskrit Story
The Teacher Who Was First a Student
शिक्षिका प्रथमं विद्यार्थिनी
Hari Narke (ed.) — Savitribai Phule Samagra Vangmay; D. Keer — Mahatma Jotirao Phooley (1964) · Beginner Sanskrit
She Goes to Learn to Teach
विद्यालयम् उद्घाटितुम् पूर्वं — सावित्री स्वयं अशिक्षत्। अहमदनगरे, पुणेनगरे च — नॉर्मलशालाः आसन्। तत्र सा अध्यापनकलां शिक्षितवती — विधिवत्। अमेरिकीयमिशनरी सिन्थिया-फॅरार तस्याः साहाय्यम् अकरोत्। सावित्री भारतस्य प्रथमा प्रशिक्षिता महिलाशिक्षिका।
Before opening the school — Savitribai herself learned. In Ahmednagar and in Pune — there were Normal Schools (training colleges). There she studied the art of teaching (adhyāpana-kalā) — properly (vidhivat — विधिवत्). American missionary Cynthia Farrar helped her. Savitribai was India's first formally trained female teacher.
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