A slightly disturbing idea about education
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I have a slightly disturbing idea about education that I want to present to you in a slow, roundabout manner that resonates with the leaves dancing and shining outside my window against the backdrop of a bright blue Bangalore sky……
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Note: The following is an excerpt from unpublished writings of Dharampal available with SIDH. There is a powerful and coherent story that comes out when these unpublished writings are read together. We are looking for funds for collating and publishing…
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Note: This week’s post was published on Pawan Gupta’s blog dayaron se pare on January 22, 2020. Over the coming weeks some selected articles will be posted here but interested people may find it rewarding to visit ‘dayaron se pare’…
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Last week I shared an extract from our soon-to-be-launched online course on understanding modern education. Today I thought of sharing some more information on how it works. The course is meant for parents, teachers and other interested adults. It will…
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This week’s blog post is extracted from an online course that we will be launching soon. The course is designed to make a participant contemplate on his/ her educational experience and connect the dots to better understand modern Indian education.…
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This is the fifth post in a series on alternative learning spaces. The original article appeared in the Teacher Plus magazine and is available here. I don’t think Gandhiji will be pleased to see what they have done to his…
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This is the fourth post in a series on alternative learning spaces. The original article appeared in the Teacher Plus magazine and is available here. I met Ravi Gulati, the founder of Manzil, at a learning conference in Delhi where…
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This is the third post in the series on alternative schools. The original article appeared in the Teacher Plus magazine and is available here. (Note: The article was originally written in 2017 and many things have changed at the school…
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This is the second post in the series on alternative schools. The original article appeared in the Teacher Plus magazine and is available here. Hope you like it… “I would have our young men and young women learn as much…
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I visited many alternative schools and wrote short articles about them as part of a fellowship I had with Wipro Applying Thought In Schools (WATIS). These articles were later published as a regular column in the Teacher Plus magazine. I…
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Mahatma Gandhi’s collected works — writings, speeches, letters, interviews and telegrams — have been meticulously compiled with appendices of relevant background material by the publications division of the Government of India. The collected works runs into 100 volumes of some…
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The following are three excerpts from chapter 1 of ‘On Education’ by J Krishnamurti. The full book is available for download here. Excerpt 1: Education is not only learning from books, memorizing some facts, but also learning how to look,…
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