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Read more: Schools: Aksharnandan
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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Schools: Muni International
Read more: Schools: Muni InternationalI 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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Hind Swaraj: M K Gandhi
Read more: Hind Swaraj: M K GandhiMahatma 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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On Education: J Krishnamurti
Read more: On Education: J KrishnamurtiThe 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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The Renaissance in India: Sri Aurobindo
Read more: The Renaissance in India: Sri AurobindoThe following are three excerpts from the long essay ‘Renaissance in India’ by Sri Aurobindo. I hope that these excerpts add to your understanding of education and modernity in the Indian context. Excerpt 1: An ingrained and dominant spirituality, an…
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The history of Bharatvarsha: Rabindranath Tagore
Read more: The history of Bharatvarsha: Rabindranath Tagore“The kind of unity that the European Civilization has opted for is discord-centered; the kind of unity that Bharatavarshiya Civilization has opted for is concord-centered.”– From ‘The history of Bharatvarsha’ by Rabindranath Tagore The article from which the above quote…
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Microschools: Networks
Read more: Microschools: NetworksThe current schools seem to contain the following components: – The area of land on which the school stands– The classrooms, labs, library etc., the academic infrastructure– The playground, swimming pool etc., the sports infrastructure– The office and other administrative…
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Microschools: The future of education?
Read more: Microschools: The future of education?I wrote a blog post titled ‘The educational institution of the future: A fantasy’ in January 2009. Some days ago I discovered that the idea put forward in this post became what are now being called microschools. And Wikipedia tells…
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If education has to happen?
Read more: If education has to happen?(This Monday’s post is a slight twist on a short story written by my favourite author – Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer. The story is called ‘Yuddham avasanikkanamenkil?’ or ‘If war has to end?’. I replaced ‘If war has to end’ with…
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The cheerful pandit: Kapil Kapoor
Read more: The cheerful pandit: Kapil Kapoor“In Patanjali’s words, all great thinkers of India were Shishtas, cultured people. A cultured person in our tradition is one whose worldly goods are constituted by a jar of grain. And without motive or purpose a Shishta devotes himself to…
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A mathematical genius: C.K. Raju
Read more: A mathematical genius: C.K. Raju“Education today is unfortunately seen as a process of learning to ape the West, a la Macaulay, so math is taught from a purely Western perspective. This way of teaching math retraces the European experience of learning math: so the…
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