Microschools: Networks
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The 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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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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A radical spokesman of Tradition: A.K. Saran
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Read more: A radical spokesman of Tradition: A.K. Saran“Knowledge is, paradoxically, a knowledge of the Unknowable, a thought of the Unthinkable, a vision of Things unseen, an audition of Sound unproduced. It is ultimately knowledge of That which shines forth when we see or hear or think, and…
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The towering genius: Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Read more: The towering genius: Ananda CoomaraswamyIn an article written in 1915 titled ‘What has India contributed to human welfare’, Ananda Coomaraswamy says: ‘If we regard the world as a family of nations, then we shall best understand the position of India which has passed through…
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Gently reminding us of who we are: Dharampal
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Read more: Gently reminding us of who we are: DharampalI think that someday all Indians will know about Dharampalji, one of the great scholars of modern India. His collected writings that runs into five volumes has the potential to shift our entrenched perspectives about who we are, to change…
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Sahajta aur samarthya: Ravindra Sharma
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Read more: Sahajta aur samarthya: Ravindra SharmaAbout Ravindra Sharmaji and a small story from the video: Ravindra Sharmaji (known as Guruji by everyone who knew him) was from Adilabad in Telangana, which was part of the Nizam’s Hyderabad and was not much affected by the British…
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Education in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
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Read more: Education in the Tibetan Buddhist traditionIn the first post in a series on current and past masters who speak from within the Indian tradition, I thought of starting with Samdhong Rinpocheji. The small reason is that I was listening to a YouTube lecture by him…
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SIDH vision
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Read more: SIDH visionNamaste, friends! Recently, we were forced to review what initiatives are going on at SIDH. With an online course that participants have liked, a monthly Charcha with Udhbhavaha school, book publishing and all the other ideas that are in the…
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