Tag: Experimenting
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Collateral Learnings while doing everyday things.
During the summer months, Tej has been experimenting with mango recipes at home, making dishes like mango falooda, mango lassi, and mango shrikhand regularly. Due to the high temperatures, there was a need for a matka to store drinking water since fridge water is too cold and filtered water isn’t as satisfying. This led to…
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Unsettle the minds – Thinking
My idea of Education is to Unsettle the minds of young and inflame their intellect. Robert Maynard Hutchins After finishing my institutional education when I started my own organization I started looking for people to work with me. Over the period I realized people pursued knowledge too much. May be our education / societal structure…
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Best way to teach
Is there any one best way to live life? If no then can there be one best way to teach. Children are dynamic and they need dynamic facilitation. Breadth of facilitation will provide depth to understand a child.
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Our Body is the key to our Mind
With time and contemporary education the focus on body movements diminished yet the desire to make mind more productive increased by leaps and bounds. Are body and mind two separate entities or mind is part of the body?
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My dream year at school
Schools are designed in such a way that everything looks same except marks. We take this business of education too seriously. Child by nature is not serious so why not create Disneyland of school ?
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Independent Learner
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a life time. Few years back I was reprimanded by my daughter’s teacher for not making my daughter learn her spellings for the dictation. Yes, I had seen the entry in her diary…